Hi, and welcome to the second post in my Private Practice mini series aimed at practitioners in private practice, and anyone who works one-to-one with clients.
This week I want to focus on something that I see as “working in the background”, in our favour.
I was chatting to a colleague once and I said something about a plan I had for the next year.
Now taking into account that this colleague didn’t know me for long, what he said marked me.
These are almost his words, verbatim: “yes, I am sure you will achieve that. Everything else you’ve said you’d do, you’ve accomplished so far.”
That got me thinking…
What is it that I’m doing – apart from taking steps towards fulfilling what I’ve said I wanted to do in the first place – that is getting me to achieve that goal?
In having conversations with other people, I started to piece things together and realised a very valuable lesson:
When we call things out….when we name the things we want in life…they will come to us, sooner or later!
Everything we do gets us closer to our goals.
Everything we say gets us closer to our goals.
There is a lot of power in what we say and confess to ourselves and to our friends, family and colleagues!
I really do believe that trusting that what we want to happen will happen is a great way to achieve our goals and live more fulfilling lives.
This is how I’ve been building my practice.
I guess it’s been discussed before in books like The Secret an the Law of Attraction, and such. But until you experience it yourself, it won’t mean much.
This goes hand in hand with what I wrote to you about last week – if we create space and name the things that we want to pass, they will most likely happen.
Another thing I live by is this “what I’m doing now, will help in the future, somehow”.
A clear example is a colleague I’ll be partnering with soon. I met her nearly 7 years ago now at a training session, and she remembered me from that, and now we will be working together!
Yes it’s 7 years later, but the point it, we plant seeds and they grow and flourish when it’s their time to do so.
The key is to plant the seeds, either by doing something, saying something, while taking the steps and planning towards what we want for our lives and businesses.
So get talking, get confessing openly with yourself or with your tribe, those things that are dear to your heart, that will bring your goals to fruition, and your lives to be more fulfilling and more like how you want them to be.
Whether that means having 5 clients, 10 clients, 20 clients…working only 2 days a week…having various sources of income and ways of supporting people with your business…whatever it is…speak up and see it happen!
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