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

"Your Ticket to Success"

From September 2013

With leadership training in a couple of weeks and the new Leadership Teams taking over the first of October, it is time to think about the mission and vision statements for your chapter.

A Vision Statement is your ticket to success. A photograph in words of your Chapter's future, it provides the inspiration for the overall activities and the Chapter's strategic decisions.

It's the Vision Statement that provides the destination for the journey, and without a destination, how can you plan the route and arrive at your destination and achieve your goal(s)?

If you don't have a vision statement, don't panic. I bet you do have a vision of what you want your Chapter to accomplish; you just need to articulate and formalize it. 

Here's how to write a vision statement:

1) Examine Your Purpose/Mission.

Why do we exist? What is it you do well? How do you do it? 

   

Here is the Mission Statement for BNI:

Our mission is to help members increase their business through a structured, positive, and

professional "Word-of-Mouth" program that enables them to develop long-term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals.

 

2) Dare to dream.

Before you can travel to the moon you have to look up at the stars. To write a vision statement, focus on the basics of your mission statement and extrapolate; where do you want your Chapter to be a year from now?  5 years from now?  What will your Chapter have accomplished? (i.e. Want to be a 40 person Chapter? What would that look like?)

Forming a mental picture will help. If you have trouble visualizing, mentally script your own news byte. Imagine that you are being profiled on the news. What are you and your Chapter being recognized for? For instance, imagine your current Chapter being featured on the news for adding it's 40^th member.

3) Shape your vision statement; apply the formula.

Maybe when you were picturing the future of your Chapter, you saw a whole list of achievements scroll by or imagined all sorts of disjointed clips. To write a vision statement, you need to transfer your vision into a usable form. Use the following formula to shape your vision statement:

A year from now, our Chapter will ___________________ by ________________________.

Using this formula to write a vision statement will force you to choose what you consider to be the most important accomplishment for Your Chapter and give you a time frame to accomplish it.

For instance, here's a sample vision statement:

A Year from now, Our Chapter will be the top grossing Chapter in BNI Georgia by consistently passing over 40 referrals per week to their Chapter's over 40 members.

4) Commit to your vision statement.

• Take action to make your vision statement come true: Use it as the basis of your Chapter's planning.

As the vision statement provides your destination, the 'where you want to get to', all of your goals and strategies will focus on making it happen. It's the natural basis for all of your business planning.

• Keep your vision statement alive: Share it with members, potential members, and BNI Leadership.  

If you just tell it to people once, your vision statement will fade and disappear. So besides talking about it, keep your vision statement alive by keeping it physically prominent. Read it aloud at every Chapter meeting; Print it on your programs; In your emails.....Wherever you, your members and future members will see it (and be reminded of it) daily.  

Make Your Vision Statement the Right One!

It isn't hard to write a vision statement. But it is sometimes difficult to write a vision statement that truly encapsulates the vision of the Chapter. When you write a vision statement, make sure that you have chosen the vision that is most important to the Chapter and to it's members. If all the members fully believe in the Chapter's vision statement, the members will be fully engaged, able to fully commit to it, get involved in it, and all will work towards the ultimate destination / Goal(s) of the Chapter.

I look forward to seeing and hearing your Chapter's Vision for the upcoming year. 

In appreciation,

Annette