You Need More Time & Money

If you’re like me, you have these two big obstacles you need to “power through” first, before you can go all-in on your personal vision.

Time and money.

In my last video blog, I was talking about how you are already a high-achieving person but you know right now that you’re still underbeing.  

Others consider you successful but, based on your standards for yourself, you have a bigger dream in your mind that you haven’t materialized—-yet. 

In today’s video I explain a simple way to make your very real time & money obstacles go poof.

First let’s first talk about time

An immediate “time obstacle” is in the form of some big thing you need to get through “first, before you can get started” on your bigger personal vision. The time obstacle you are dealing with is a real thing. And it’s an important thing. It’s almost, or just as important as, your bigger vision.

For example, you could be getting ready to sell your house, so you have real tasks and deadlines to focus on getting the house ready. 

Another example is that you are in a special, heavy work period right now. You just need to get through this work stuff before you can make big strides towards your personal dream. 

Another example is you have a critical hoop you need to jump through first before you can do the ultimate dream thing. This stepping stone could be related to your vision, but it still falls into that category of “I can’t because I’ve got to get through this first.”

All these big things feel real, and they are real, but they are a total trap. 

They are a trap because these big reasons just never stop coming. As soon as you finish one big one, another one will emerge. Soon days become weeks, weeks become months and months become years.

There is a simple solution to this time trap problem. I will tell you more about it at the end of this blog post.

Now let’s talk about money

In your mind, before you can really go all in on your vision, you also need money.  

You are telling yourself that you need to get some of the money situation lined up “first” before you can get really focused on your vision.

Maybe you need startup money to get your vision off the ground—-or you need money to invest into getting trained and certified before you can really start in earnest. 

Maybe you need money to build a prototype first.  

Maybe you need a promotion or a different job in place that pays you what you need to make your dream happen.

Maybe you need to get your current business more profitable before you can branch out to your dream initiative.

The solution I’ve been hinting at

Over the years I have discovered a simple solution for what keeps blocking you from making significant progress toward that dream scenario you’d love to see.

This simple solution is based on a strengths practice which makes small chunks of time more focused and productive. 

This focus leads to getting paid more for less time, which gives you more of the financial resources you will need to make things easier and to make things happen. 

The alternative to using a practice like this is to find yourself in the exact same place next year. The only problem is that, when this happens, you are typically actually BEHIND from where you are today. 

The world moves on within a year. New competitors enter the scene, other people start doing your idea, clients you would have loved to work with start working with someone else because you were not available, etc. etc.

As I explain in my video, I am not trying to scare you or encourage a scarcity mindset. Keeping an abundance mindset is crucial. I am just trying to tell you the TRUTH because it is not too late for you to put things in place so that you are not feeling regret later.

I remember years ago I wanted to write a book about careers based on the enneagram. A cherished friend and colleague told me that “If you don’t hurry up and write that book, someone else will.” She was giving me a little bit of honest but tough love and support. She was working in the coaching industry where she knew that the enneagram was starting to really take off so it was only a matter of time that other authors would enter, writing similar books to what had been on my heart for a few years. I am grateful that she put a little bit of fear and anger into my heart at that moment because it motivated me to get off my behind and get started!

I hope I am not being too subtle here to let you know that you truly only have maybe ten or fifteen years in your LIFE to make your dream happen, and there are some critical things you need to get in place NOW or your dream will NEVER happen.

And since they put this strengths practice in place, many of my friends, colleagues and strengths community members have been pleasantly surprised...they are already in 2023 seeing big parts of their dreams having materialized in HALF the time they thought it would take. 

I’ll tell you more in my next blog post.

P.S. We're offering a free masterclass this month (with three dates to choose from - 1/16, 1/7 and 1/22). Please contact us ASAP if you want to pencil the free masterclass on your calendar, and we'll get you the Zoom link.