So how do you take a vision, or a part of it, and make it
into something less metaphoric and more realistic? To be honest, I didn't have a clue. How was "my tree" going to help me
with building a vision for what I wanted my business to look like in 5-years?
Time for another visualization exercise……
This time around, Coach Ginny had me focusing on what
exactly did I want my business to look like.
The hardest part about doing this exercise is getting out my own
way. It's not easy planning out
something, doing the "what if time and money were not a factor" game. I always want to say, yeah, but…. Forcing
myself to not go there is not as easy as one might thing. I work with my clients all the time to help
them to see the bigger-picture for their businesses, why is it so hard to do it
for myself? (I'm sure there is another blog post in this sentence alone.)
I like using visualization
as a technique because it does allow me to think on a bigger scale. Once I really start to put myself out there
and allow for bigger-picture thinking, it amazes me what I see. This
time around I could actually see the reception area to my physical office
space. Now this got my attention, as I
work virtually, from home. Never crossed
my mind to have an actual office building.
In my vision, when you walk into Adonai Business Solutions,
LLC you are transformed to a place of tranquility, calmness, "all is right
with the world" type feeling. There
is a real stream and yes, a very real tree just off to the left. You can sit by the tree if you choose, or
simply just bask in its glory.
When walking up to the receptionist desk (which is large and curved – not sure how that plays in to all of this, but thought I would mention that anyway) you notice a mural
of a tree on the wall behind her. The
branches and leaves are words that encompass what Adonai and our clients are
all about. There is a bible verse
towards the bottom of the trunk – John 15:5.
My favorite painter, Thomas Kinkade, painted this one-of-a-kind mural
for me. If you know anything about his
paintings, you know that this mural is full of life and light.
To the left of the receptionist desk is a hallway that winds
around the building. The various offices
are down this hall. However, this particular vision
exercise did not reveal what the rest of my office building looks like. Maybe I'm just not ready to go there yet.
In my next post I will go into what I have learned about
"my tree" since the last visualization exercise with Coach Ginny and
what I learned about myself that I hadn't realized before.
