BHAGs

 So, what is a BHAG?  It stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal.  Have you ever had one of those?  They say that 'If your goals don't scare you, they aren't big enough.'  And this one - 'When you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you will succeed.'

Do you personally have any BHAGS?  The reason I ask is people become part of BNI to generate referrals in order to make more money and grow their business.  Why, so they can buy that larger home for their family, travel more and take their family on dream vacations, save money for their children for college, have more free time to spend with their families or play golf or whatever their hobbies and interests might be.

Typically people think about their goals at the beginning of a new year or when they start a new job or new business or most anything they start new.  As of October 1st, we started a new term with BNI.  Many of you started a new Leadership position in your BNI Chapter.  I bring this up because now is the time that the new chapter Leadership Teams sets their goals.  So, what would you like to see for goals for your chapter?  Why do I ask?  Because whatever the goals are for your chapter, has an impact on your success.  Is your chapter setting goals and implementing mechanisms and strategies to help their members meet their BHAGs?  Setting and having goals is like having a roadmap with a designated destination in mind.  Without goals, you're just wandering around with no intentions of getting anywhere.  

Chapter Members depend on their Leadership Team to set the Vision, Mission, and Goals for their Chapter.  Every business has these and your BNI Chapter should be no different.  The Vision, Mission, Goals, and Mechanisms are what keeps a BNI Chapter moving forward.  It's the roadmap to help chapter members get more referrals, get more revenue, and grow their business.  Does your chapter have a vision, mission, and goals?  Are they announced periodically at your meeting and compared to the actuals?  Are they entered in BNIConnect so members can view?  Ask your Leadership Team what your Chapter's Goals are.  

For the most part, successful motivated members want to be part of a successful motivated chapter.  They want to be a part of a team that also values their worth. If members don't perceive they are valued or getting the value of their membership, they will leave.  Members need to know what the goals and strategies are for the chapter and why they will help them be successful.  Members need to understand WIIFM (what's in it for me). If members don't understand why inviting visitors will help them get more business, then they are not going to put forth the effort to invite.  So when a chapter LT sets their goals for their chapter, they need to also have a clear plan in place to roll out the goals to the chapter members and explain how the chapter goals are going to help each member increase their bottom line.

Why is all of this important?  For a BNI Chapter to be successful it needs their Leadership Team to set a clear vision, mission, goals, and mechanisms.  Depending on how the chapter is currently doing, depends on where the chapter focus will be.  Sometimes chapters just need to get back to the basics and do a re-boot.  Start from scratch as if all the members were brand new.  For the Leadership Team, I would advise looking at your chapter as if you were the new coach.  Is your team struggling?  Are they on-hold, waiting to go back to in-person meetings?  Or on fire?  It doesn't matter if you're meeting in person or on Zoom, the basics of BNI are still the same.  And if the basic principles of BNI are implemented and followed, you will have successful members as well as a successful chapter.  It is up to the Leaders of the chapter to set the tone, be the role models, and LEAD their members to success. Leaders are expected set the Goals, design the mechanisms, and implement the plan that will help members be successful.

If you or your chapter need help and support, reach out to your Support Director Consultant.

Here are some additional resources:

Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be - Jack Canfield

Vince Lombardi Got it Right - Dr. Misner

Is Your Chapter on Fire, On Hold, or in a Hole -  Dr. Misner

Leadership Team Vision & Goals - BNI University

Goals Training - BNI University

And join the Facebook Group - Notably Green

I encourage you to access the podcasts via BNI University so that you show up on the Leader board for your Chapter and your area.  To make it easier, you can also download the app to your smart device.  It's available from ITunes and Google.  Also, be sure and report your CEUs, 1 hour = 1 CEU.

Let me know if you have any questions and how I can be of help.  

 

To Your Success,

 

Annette Mason

Area Director Consultant

What is your Vision for the new Decade?

As we turn the page and look to the new year, what is your Vision for 2020?  It's not just a New Year, it's the beginning of a New Decade.  Time to not just set goals for the New Year, but to set BHAG Goals for the Decade!

In Podcast #445, Dr. Misner talks with John Assaraf with OneCoach.  He's also one of the teachers from the movie, The Secret, and he's the author of Having It All and The Answer.

The title of the podcast is 'How to Grow Any Business in Any Market.'  The original podcast was done in 2009 during the recession, but it covers some very good key points on our beliefs and conditioning when it comes to Goal Setting and Visioning of what we want to achieve regardless of the state of the economy.

John gives these three key points in setting a vision:

1. Number one is to set an absolute, clear new vision of what it is you want to achieve. And so let's say you want to earn $100,000 or $250,000 or $1 million, what you want to do is set an absolute, clear vision for the brain to be able to pick up, number one, on that vision, i.e. what would it look like, what would it feel like?.
2. Number two, you want to impress that part into the subconscious or implicit part of the brain.  A visualization technique would be seeing yourself playing at that level over and over and over again so that we create the new neural networks in the implicit part of the brain, which is the automatic side of the brain. Also, create affirmations or declarations that create emotion.  This will actually accelerate the neuron connections of the brain as well.  This is putting our reticular activator in motion.
3. Number three, put ourselves into meditative states through self-hypnosis and use auditory technologies, or brain-and-train technologies, that will embed these new affirmations, or declarations, into the nervous system, basically, of the brain.

Those are three simple things that anybody could do inexpensively to make sure that our brains are being rewired at the part that actually is responsible for 96 to 98 percent of our perceptions and behaviors. And over the course of 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, we're actually reprogramming our brains at the level that's going to cause all of our perceptions and behaviors to change over time thus leading us to meet our goals.

I want to share a story with you.  Many years ago, when I had my first sales position with a direct sales company and before I knew anything about these techniques and the principles of Laws of Attraction this actually worked for me.

After working for this company for about 9 months, I attended their yearly sales seminar.  First time I had flown, so I was very excited.  I was one of the winners of their Fall Sales promotion which added to my excitement.  But the frosting on the cake was when they announced what the next big sales promotion was to be for the company.  They had never offered a promotion this big.  It was a trip for two to Hawaii.  I made up my mind right then and there...I was going.  I took one of the posters from the promotion, packed it in my suitcase, brought it home and hung it on the wall of my workroom.  That was my vision.

Over the next several months, I was focused on what I needed to do to achieve my vision.  I had determined exactly what each week and months sales had to be to meet my goal.  The company had given us 18 months to meet all the criteria to win.  I achieved by goal in 10 months and was the first sales rep to win!  Was it easy, NO!  There were many obstacles to overcome and work through, but I believe that the emotion I put behind the determination and the explicit declaration of, 'I am going,' was my key to achieving my dream in even less time than given.

Later in my career when I worked in a corporate setting, I had the privileged of being exposed to this concept even more through becoming a Master Facilitator in a program called 'Investment in Excellence' which was from Pacific Institute.  It was through this program I learned about the 'Reticular Activator.'  That part of the brain that doesn't know the difference in what is real and what is imagined.  Do if we can imagine with enough emotion we can set the brain in motion to achieve the end result - our vision.  Remember #2 - 'Play at the level in our mind and seeing ourself playing at that level over and over and over again so that we create the new vision.'  The other piece is writing affirmations in the first person as if you have already achieved your goal and put the feeling and emotion into the affirmation, i.e. 'I AM sitting on the beach in Oahu listening to the beautiful Hawaiian music as I watch a gorgeous sunset.'  Can you feel that?

So what is it you want to achieve in 2020?  If it's a monetary level, what would you do with the money?  Buy a new car, buy a new house, take an exotic vacation?  How would the end result make you feel?  Write your affirmations with how the end result would make you feel.

I would love to hear what your BHAG goals are for 2020.  

FYI - On my GAINS profile under the 'What few people know about me....I have won 2 trips to Hawaii with 2 different direct sales companies.  This stuff does work.  

Your Support Team is here to help you, i.e. Your Director Consultant, Area Director, Senior Director, and Executive Directors.  If you or your chapter needs help, support, or have questions, reach out.

Here are some additional resources for Goal Setting:

Grow Any Business in any Market

Stay in Your Flame

Amplifying Results Using a Lens

How Building it Can Make You Fearless*

Limits Are Illusions* 

(*FYI - I am an affiliate for SOC, but I felt these last two were pertinent to the subject)

For previous articles refer to my Notably Green Blog.

And join the Facebook Group - Notably Green

I encourage you to access the podcasts via BNI University so that you show up on the Leader board for your Chapter and your area.  To make it easier, you can also download the app to your smart device.  It's available from ITunes and Google.  Also, be sure and report your CEUs, 1 hour = 1 CEU.

Let me know if you have any questions and how I can be of help.  

To Your Success,

 

Annette Mason