Keep Your Accomplishments Right In Front of You
Gwen Mazer is the author of a great book, Wise Talk Wild Women, http://www.gwenmazer.com. I attended a workshop she facilitated this past weekend.
We had been asked to bring a collage to the workshop. I went ahead and made a collage that was a vision board with all the things I want in my life: a world cruise, a bigger house, a more healthy and fit body- the usual suspects. Then, once I got there, I realized I was not supposed to make a vision board, I was supposed to make an accomplishment board. A collage showing all the successes and achievements I have been author to in my years.What a revelation- what a concept- putting attention on what I have, who I am, not what I want. Upon reflection, I realized the significance of this. As entrepreneurs who are driven and future focused, there is a usual tendency to focus on the future, on what is next and what we want to move towards. Instead of taking even one hundredth of the time we spend on the future to reflect on all the laurels we have already grown, cultivated and enjoyed.
I brought up the idea of creating an accomplishment board to my Direct Sales Business Breakthrough Group, http://www.directsalescoaching.com/coachingb.htm, the next day, and as expected, there was some resistance to the idea- a recognition of the value and still an awareness that this was uncomfortable. To put on paper, to make public one’s accomplishments seemed such a foreign idea.
I suggest by putting your accomplishment board on your wall right next to your vision board, you will only solidify your awareness that you can absolutely realize your compelling vision because you have done so, so many times already.
So sit down and made a board full of photos, or certificates or postcards or whatever represents your accomplishments and reflect on that everyday.
If you send me a picture of your accomplishment board, I will post it here. Go work on yours. I am going to work on mine. Gather a few friends and do it together–it will be so much fun.
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Hi Caterina, what a great idea. how often as women in particular do we downplay what we have achieved. As a leader in our field I still find it humbling hearing about what others think of what i have accomplished. Better go i am off to make an achievement board and share it with our Management team and be proud of the moments of greatness, not just move swiftly to the next thing as i have dishes in the sink…
cheers Allison
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