The type
of success you will get to enjoy in your life or business is directly affected
by the clarity of your vision, how serious you are about what you want to
achieve, the quality of your goals and plans and your daily commitment to carry
out goal specific actions, which will help you to realize your dreams. You can
support your success by adding vision boards, daily affirmations, visualization,
mirroring, etc. into your daily routine. The secret to sustainable success
though, is to ensure that these supportive routines do not become the focus of
your daily success habit set.
I
can most certainly say that all my clients, who have supported their business
and personal successes, by including vision boards, daily goal specific
affirmations and visualization techniques, into their lives and businesses,
have seen remarkable improvements in the results they have enjoyed, because of
the following:
·
They have had to simplify
and clarify their vision and purpose into simple understandable phrases, which
drive and encourage the right behavior, to support both themselves and their
team members, to drive the proper daily activity.
·
This clarity makes them and
their team members more focused and determined to succeed.
·
Everyone in their teams has
absolute clarity about what they need to achieve.
·
Their vision is clear and
everyone in their teams knows their individual role for delivering on the overall
vision.
·
This clarity of vision and
purpose is regularly repeated, so it is fresh in everyone’s mind throughout the
day, week and month.
·
It is easier to track their team’s
performance and to see if the actions they are taking are aligned with the
outcome they want, as they have refined their vision into daily affirmed success
behaviors.
Yes
affirmations, vision boards and visualization techniques do help improve the
outcomes everyone within my clients teams enjoy. They are however never a
substitute for daily goal specific activity on the part of your team members.
Making Affirmations
Work for You and Your Team
The
first step, when creating affirmations for you and your team, is to ensure that
you have a crystal clear vision of exactly what you want your team to achieve.
This must then be converted into goals, which stretch your team, but must still
feel achievable to them. Break these back into projects or smaller bite size
chunks, which your team can tackle and achieve in no more than 30 days. These
projects must then be broken back even further into action lists, which contain
the individual actions, which must be performed by each team member. Explore
these individual actions and discover the type of behavior, which will support each
team member to achieve their individual projects and goals.
For example: If you are leading a team
of sales people. The overall vision may be to become the leading supplier of a
particular product or service, in the financial services industry. To achieve this,
one of the goals the team may need to achieve, would be a sales growth of 15 %
for the year. The overall goal for the team of sales people would thus be to grow
sales by a specific monetary value, within the next twelve months. This goal
can then easily be broken back, into individual goals for each sales person in
the team.
These
individual goals are then broken back further, into smaller projects, which each
sales person can achieve within the next 30 days. Breaking the individual sales
person’s goal back into smaller bite size chunks does two things. It firstly
makes the overall goal for each individual, feel more achievable and makes it
far easier to track the performance of each team member. This helps to regularly
test the results of each team member. If after 30 days someone has not achieved
a project, you as their leader can take timeously take action to see why. Each
project is then broken back into individual actions. Each sales person would
design an action list, which they would take action on daily.
This
is where visualization and affirmation now come into play. You as the leader of
the team or the individual sales person would develop an affirmation to
encourage the behavior; they need to perform daily, to support the outcome they
need to achieve. If for example they need to make minimum of 10 telephone calls
and meet with at least five prospects every day. They would develop an
affirmation, which they would repeat throughout the day, which could be
something as simple as “I am making ten phone calls a day, meeting with 5 prospects,
who know like and trust me enough to partner with me and buy what I have to
sell”
These
simple affirmations help inspire the exact behavior needed by the sales person
and have the added benefit of also helping them feel more positive when they
meet with their prospects. As you know sales is not about selling at all, it is
about developing mutually beneficial relationships with people, who can get to know,
like and trust you and your product and service. The more positive the sales
person is and the more believable and trustworthy they are, the more likely the
prospect will be to choose to utilize their product or service to satisfy their
specific need.
How Does my Team
Use Affirmations?
They
must add the expression of their affirmations to their daily routine; it should
become an integral part of their new success habit set. They can repeat their
affirmations as many times as they want throughout the day. The challenge with
this random approach is that it does not easily allow the formation of a daily
habit. I have seen the best success in my client’s team members, when they say
and feel them at least three times a day. It’s a good habit to encourage your
team members to say them when they first awake in the morning, at mid-day, and
again as they prepare for sleep. Introducing this new routine will take
willpower at first. They should help themselves to develop this new success habit
set, by setting reminders in their phones to remind them to carry out the
affirmations three times a day.
To
successfully turn this new routine into their new success habit set, they must
repeat this behavior, using alarms to remind them, for about 60 days. Research
has shown that daily routines, when repeated for 60 days, become entrenched
habits.
“Start Your Day with a Positive
Push in the Right Direction”
When
they say their affirmations in the morning, before their day even starts, they are
setting the tone for their performance throughout the day. They are reminded about
the activity they need to carry out that day, they feel more confident, focused
and driven. This allows them to start their day feeling more inspired, and determined
to achieve their goals each day. They will also be programming that portion of
their brain, which filters what they notice, to be on the lookout for any
hidden opportunities.
Re-Focus Throughout
the Day
Encourage
your team to also say their affirmations whenever they have time. If they are
waiting for a document to print, stuck in traffic, or performing a tedious,
repetitive task, they should repeat their affirmations, either out loud or
silently. Saying their goal-specific affirmations in the middle of the day
helps them to re-focus. Any time they find that they are being hard on
themselves or they feel down, because of the challenges of the day, they must
just relax and repeat their affirmations. They can teach themselves to turn the
default, pre-programmed negative self-talk, they engage in all day, into a conversation
with themselves, which is supportive and inspiring.
If
they want to accelerate their growth and their ability to achieve their goals, it
is very helpful to write down their affirmations on piece of paper frequently
throughout the day. This can be repeated at least 10 or 20 times each
day. The more often they repeat their affirmations, the faster they will
reprogram their mind and eliminate any self-negating talk and limitations that
linger within them.
The Last 45 Minutes before
Bed are Key
At
night, as they prepare for bed, repeating their affirmations is a great way to
prepare their subconscious mind to align itself with their conscious thinking.
The last 15 minutes before they sleep is extremely valuable. What they pay
attention to during the last 15 minutes; just prior to going to sleep has a
greater influence on your subconscious mind than what you focus on during the
rest of the day. This is why it is an ideal time to meditate, visualize, and
repeat your affirmations.
And
remember, your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between what is real
or imagined, and so will spend a great portion of the night focusing on what
the conscious mind told it before it went to sleep.
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