Summer break is over... time to reconnect with your purpose!

I hope you enjoyed a peaceful summer break.
After some weeks off, we come back to our daily habits and I believe it's a good moment to capture our purpose.
We are now refreshed from our vacation, at least some of us, and for others it is the time to start new projects, new businesses, new relationships...
Before we launch ourselves in a hectic path of action, what is the outcome we want for this season?
What are the golden Autumn fruits we want to seize?
What opportunities we want to create in our live?

And, most importantly, why do we want it?
If you know the why, the how will not matter.  Reasons come first, actions come second.
Whenever you had in your past strong enough reasons to seek an outcome, I bet you succeeded.
And yet, sometimes you may find yourself doing things in a bad mood, procastinating, or putting aside projects and goals that earlier made your eyes full of life sparks.

Your purpose is the driving force to achieve whatever you want, whatever your outcomes are.  Take a moment to make it clear.  What is the purpose you have in whatever you are doing right now?
How does it serve you?  you do it for the sake of what?

The more present you have your purpose, the easier it will be for you to move towards your outcomes.

Being vs Doing

Many times in my life I focussed only in what I had to do in order to achieve goals.  I planned, defined strategies, set deadlines & milestones, tracked my progress with graphs and diagrams... and you know what, when I finally achieved my goals I ended up with a feeling of dissatisfaction and questioning myself:  Is this all about?
I had focussed so much in steps, in to-do lists, in getting things done that I missed completely the point of what moved me in the first place to set myself that goal. According to Tony Robbins, there are two different skills that one has to develop in order to excell in life:

• The Science of Achievement, which focusses mainly on DOING things (or alternatively, taking action and getting things done)
• The Art of Fulfillment, which focusses mainly on BEING, on the emotional state and the values that are expressed by the goals you set for yourself.

Many people tend to unbalance both skills and this results into difficulties either moving towards their goals (excess of fulfillment / lack of achievement) or feeling their motivation sinking (not enough focus on the values behind their actions).

Think about an specific area of your life where you have set yourself a goal and you find yourself delaying taking action to make it real.  On a scale from 0 to 10, where do you feel you are with respect to what is needed to achieve that goal?
How would it be like to be at a level 10?  What would you feel?  What is so important for you to reach that goal and be at that level? Would it be more confortable for you to be at a lower level, let's say 9? If so, what do you gain from being at a lower level?
If your answers touch your core values, you will find a shift in your emotions.

Now, let's go to the challenging part:  what do you lose by staying at a lower level? Imagine yourself in 20 years from now.  How would your life be like living in the same lower level all these years?  Which things have you given up by choosing to stay in the same level?

Imagine for a moment that you have already achieved your goal and you are living at the level of 10.  How does it feel?  imagine yourself 20 years in the future, living all these years at that level.  How would your life be like? If you had to choose an image, what would this image be?

You got the picture of your values expressed at a level of 10.  Will you commit to vision this image at least once a day for the next 10 days? it will keep your motivation high and give you a sense of anticipation on what you are about to move towards.  This is focussing on BEING.
I challenge you to go beyond, and share your dream and this image with somebody you love and from whom you can expect respect from your vision. I challenge you to ask him/her to help you remained focussed, by communicating him/her by phone after 10 days that you visioned your dream and your image.

Now, my friend, the time is ready to take more action. This is a journey that starts, as always does, with a very first step.
What is the first step that you will do today to move towards realizing your dream? Are your ready to take this step or your prefer keeping living in your current level for the next 20 years?  I bet you are ready, I know you can do it, and my allucination is that you know it as well.
Do you commit yourself to tell your chosen one by tomorrow what you have done towards making your dream real?
If you do, Congratulations!! You took action and you are now one step closer to your goal.
Just keep DOING while focussing every single day on your vision, your BEING, and you will achieve whatever your goal is and enjoy the journey!

Goals from your soul

Many times we start writting a goal list.  And many times we don't follow through what it takes to achive them.
If we just dedicate a little less time to goal setting, and a bit more to feel what the goals really really REALLY mean for us, we will end up taking more action, getting momentum and achieving only those that are meaningful for us.


A friend of mine says "a human being always achieves what he/she wants.  If he/she doesn't achieve it, it means that he/she doesn't really want it".  I find this straight statement true in its core.
I invite you to take a moment to answer these questions from you heart:

What do you really want in your life now?


Why is it soooooo important for you to get it?


How would be your life if you get it?


How do you feel right now?


What are you ready to do in order to get what you want?


Which steps could you easily start with to move towards your goal right now?


Envision your life as if it were already true, take action, and start moving, full of clarity and energy, towards your goal.  It will be yours earlier than you thought!