Achieve What Matters

It's a tragedy when you spend a lifetime climbing the ladder only to find that it's leaning against the wrong wall. I was honored to hear Stephen Covey share this image more than 20 years ago, and it has been with me ever since.  Accomplishments only lead to meaningful success when they're aligned with what really matters to you and your business. With so many distractions in our world of connected technology and constant demands, it can be easy to lose sight of what really matters and find that the goals we've chased have lead us where we didn't really want to go.

 

Here's a quick start exercise to help articulate what matters most to you and set your goals accordingly:

 

Step One: Believe it or not, it's very difficult to center your day around something that you haven't defined, so it's worth taking a little time to articulate exactly that. That's why every cSuiteAchievement Concept begins with defining what matters most to you, the business leader and the business.

 

What really matters to you? Here are some categories to kick start your own list and define what matters most to you and your business.

 

 

Step Two: After capturing a few of the most important points for each of the categories above, take a moment to imagine what your life could look like, at its best, in the years to come. This image of your future lifestyle may help to highlight what your subconscious values most.

 

Compare the components of that "best life" image against your "what matters" list. Any conflicts? Confirmations? Revelations?

 

(Side note of caution: "Financial" pursuit can become one of those ladders that just leads into the clouds, one that "achievers" continue to pursue without always having clarity of purpose and what the goal actually is. A few questions to ponder in regard to this one... What is the purpose of the financial accumulation that will come? What needs must be met? What luxuries are worth having? What's the plan for overflow?)

 

Step Three: If you've successfully gone through the first two steps, you should now have a foundational list from which to build future goals. Create a consolidated version of the list to keep with you. Whenever you make weightier decisions, designing a new achievement quest, updating goals, make sure that each one can be clearly tied to something on that list. If it can't, it may lead where you don't want to go.

 

Here's to Achieving more of what matters most in 2022.

all the best & blessings, dawn