Momentum is an experience of life when everything flows and is aligned with our core values. Results manifest easily and rapidly. Conflict and effort no longer trouble us. Momentum occurs when you know what you want, plan out a course of action, and keep your agreements about that plan. Momentum is repeated when you let go of having to be right and in control.
What do you want? It is difficult to know what you really want when your focus is mainly on trying to prevent what you don’t want to happen while making sure you look good. Often, the sense of clarity around what we want emerges after we choose to commit to a goal. Commitment precedes clarity, not the other way around. When you really commit you’ll have an experience of freedom to move forward and a flow of inspiration and ideas will follow. Your creative mind will come alive with possibilities and potential sources of help. The best way to discover what you want is to ask yourself the question, “what is missing”. When I have a new client in front of me I always start by asking, “What are three things you want more of in your life?” and “What are three things you want less of in your life?” From this conversation, more often than not, pretty clear dreams, goals, and desires appear that may have been hiding behind fear or previous failure or simply that never make it to the front burner. (Of course, to me, failure is just proof that you have been moving forward!)
What are you going to do about it? Make up a plan to achieve your goal so that it can show up. It’s not what you plan but that you plan. You’ll have to guess at your plan, making sure to add in those tasks that you feel should be done as they occur to you. No one has ever been able to figure out what to do to produce exact results. It is good to allow for flexibility in your plan as new results provide information. The power here really is that you engage in the process of making a plan. The tasks you choose in your plan are to empower an experience of productivity, not to give you a sense of having figured it all out. Many clients that come through my door haven’t achieved what they say they want simply because they are attached to having to know exactly how their results are going to show up. I find that allowing results to show up is much more powerful than forcing results to show up. In reality, it is you who must keep showing up!
Keeping your agreements. Now that you know what you want and have made up a plan of action, making and keeping clear agreements about your plan becomes the power behind manifesting the results you want. Having results without struggle or effort requires that you keep your agreements around your plan.
Occasionally we break agreements. Tell the truth about the broken agreement and forgive yourself quickly and with acceptance that you are doing it! You are on your path, not waiting anymore. Occasionally we need to change an agreement. It’s OK to do that but take note if you change it more than twice. Keeping your agreements impeccably will create an experience of momentum where “everything is just working”.
There is a common pitfall that befalls many of us regarding agreements. We find that we can keep agreements with everyone else but ourselves. We may ask ourselves “why?” and spend many vexing hours in contemplation. I am here to tell you it is that it is. The way around the self-agreement failure pitfall is to enroll others in your plans, tell them your agreements, and share your successes, too! My “Momentum Masters” business coaching groups are designed to maximize self-accountability and, thereby, increase your power to manifest fabulous results with your business and life. I want you to feel great about taking those goals, dreams, and intentions off the back burner and turn up the heat! What do *you* want more of in your life?