When the list is always growing

It’s easy to feel behind when your list is always growing.

It’s easy to not check off items on the list when it could be improved in some way and new ideas are being added regularly to the list. It could drive a person mad! Yes, I know from experience. We all have our tricks for moving from idea to action. And I believe we are always picking up new tricks, new beliefs, new affirmations, new colleagues,…that are in alignment with our energy from idea to action.

When it’s right, we feel it. We know it. We see the next step and do it.

#takeactionTuesday

Here’s to a great week of moving with others from idea to action! :)

Building competencies

I love talking about what’s next. I have always been one to improve today for tomorrow. Getting to work with business owners on their ‘what’s next’ is energizing. It’s energizing to work with others that are excited for improvement, for the new and for the creative.

Often I am the lynchpin or the integrator that brings the picture together. I assess the current, get clarity on the future and figure out the details for the gap in between.

Improvement from the current to the future is a competency that I have always had AND that I have deliberately developed. I’m excited for the week ahead!

New stage

Each new stage, chapter, season, etc needs new skills. Makes sense but sometimes we hold on to certain strengths for too long and apply them too often in the day that then they actually work against our vision for the future and this current stage.

During my MBA schooling, there was a course called Managing High Growth Companies.

A big takeaway was that founders often stay around longer than they should. Whether it’s staying in the company at all, staying in their current role or just doing things that no longer serve the business. It could be competencies that used to be strengths that are now hindering your own growth even. It’s easy as an outsider to any company to see an owner getting in their own way (and getting in the way of their people and the vision for the company). It’s harder to see it ourselves and to take action.

I’ve been that person that sees/helps others get out of their way AND over the past year, I’ve been loving having people that are helping me with this next stage of growth in my company. It is energizing everyday to stop doing things that do not need me to be the one doing it and focus more time on the things that light me up and that build for cool things in the future :)

Quarterly goal setting

I’ve really grown to love quarterly goal setting. Wow, groundbreaking. But really it is!

The things that make monumental changes in our life are often things that are small shifts that come from big insights.

3 months is a nice chunk of time to take a meaningful step forward in the right direction.

I’m excited for this next quarter!! Hope you are too :)

Learning vs. Doing

We, as growth and self-improvement enthusiast, love to learn…and we love to make things happen too.

Learning versus doing can feel like a tug-o-war. That we can easily get pulled to one end then the other then back to the other. And it’s tough at times to just feel balanced in it. Balanced in the learning and putting learnings into action.

I’ve realized more and more that the natural image of striving for balance as this immovable state of constantly being cantered or balanced, would actually be a nightmare. To stay fully still, you have to not move your eyes, focus on one thing, not feel external forces on you…so a statue.

Instead what if it’s about moving with nimbleness, agility, flexibility between one focus and the next, between learning and doing, etc. That’s been my focus the last year or so, to move with agility between learning and doing. I’m really proud of the habits and muscles I’ve built in this respect to bring awareness and intentionalness to this. Something I could strengthen is my flexibility in letting of the stress or annoyance when others are in one focus for longer. This week I’m testing out some new tricks to expand this ;)