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Here & Now

8/2/2019

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Angela Moonan Executive Coach The Road to Hana Maui Hawaii
The Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii at dusk. It was a 12 hour journey all the way around the island. This was a civilized part of the road. Most was treacherous and darn right scary. I absolutely had to be in the present moment for that entirety of that trip. It was and remains a great lesson. pc: Angela Moonan
Angela Moonan Executive Coach Forbes Coaches Council
As someone who has spent their professional life developing FUTURE SCENARIOS for brands and their supporting organizations, it's an interesting learning curve to focus on the HERE & NOW. Truly, the here and now is the ONLY place of power:

Envisioning a different path for your company is a natural part of strategic development and growth. What can sometimes get lost is the appreciation for what you have right here, right now. 

The employee who just got a five star review from a customer wants to FEEL the APPRECIATION for their applied skills and energy, right here, right now... not sometime off in the distant unknown. Your sales manager who just lost his wife to cancer doesn't need reassurance and commitment from you next month. He needs it - right here and now.

For new staff to begin rowing in the same direction as your overall team's vision, they can only learn what that looks and feels like, right here and now. You can only affect profit margins for fourth quarter, right here and now.

"The employee who just got a five star review from a customer wants to FEEL the APPRECIATION for their applied skills and energy, right here, right now... not sometime off in the distant unknown."
In the 'being present' of it all, focusing your energy and attention right here and now, you are your most resourceful. The future only ever exists, in each present moment, moment by moment. So why not begin where you can actually have a shot at altering the future path? Here and now.

Here's a powerful and easy 4-minute exercise you can embrace here and now:

  1. Sit somewhere quiet and peaceful. Close the door. Silence the cell phone.
  2. Breathe. In.  Out.  Slowly. Do that three or four times, simply feeling the breath puff out your chest and belly over and over.

Now, 

Do a check in with how you're feeling right here and now?
Do you feel inspired? Do you feel beaten?
Invigorated and optimistic? Or depleted and skeptical?
Do you feel nothing?
Feeling nothing is ok too. You'll get there. > We're going for inspired, invigorated, and optimistic :)

  • NO:  IF you're NOT feeling resourceful, inspired, energized, stay very GENERAL in your thoughts: pick a thought that makes you smile. Something about your family, your best golf shot, your dog. There. You're more resourceful than you were 3 seconds ago. It works like that. One, empowering thought at a time.
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  • YES:  IF or ONCE you ARE in a more empowered state - take some time to focus more specifically on the challenge and opportunity that exists in a particular department, product line, or service offering. Take stock of all the gifts you've been granted up til now in that department, with that team - and appreciate all you and your team have learned to get you to right here and now.

FEEL into what feels like is missing.

Now, in what ways can YOU contribute best to building a bridge from here .. to there. Beginning right here and now. Look to yourself FIRST before you start piecing together the puzzle with your employees.
"​Don't think chess game, ten moves ahead. Only focus on what's right before you."
​One step, one inspired action. That's it. Don't think chess game, ten moves ahead. Only focus on ​what's right before you. The very next step or thought will take you to the next, and the next, and the next... moment by moment. It works! I promise.
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Your Team acts as a wonderful mirror

8/1/2019

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JUST THE RIGHT TEAM

Look around you. Perhaps you have JUST the right team of talent you've diligently assembled to support your vision of where you want to take your company. If so, CONGRATULATIONS! If you've achieved that, then you also know that team will continuously evolve in order to adapt to changing conditions from here ... to there.

FALLING SHORT ON POTENTIAL?

If you DON'T have JUST the right team of talent, or you believe there's much potential untapped -- here's an insight you might consider. It truly is a powerful re-frame of your current scenario:

Your team, and what you see in them, acts as a powerful mirror for ...

YOU. Yes You, their Leader, their visionary, their finest cheerleader.

So,

if there's something you see that's lacking in a particular department, leadership staff, or frontline employee... small business, large business, it makes no matter. Rather than trying to dig in and figure out what's missing 'over there,' first look inward at yourself. Ask yourself questions like:
  • What's the gift here that's trying to emerge in what I'm noticing?
  • What might be amiss in MYSELF that's causing me to notice this in that person or situation in the first place?
  • What might I be, do, or have, that could help shift the situation positively?
  • Do I at times exhibit similar behaviors or prone to similar beliefs as this person I'm finding fault with?

If you first pause, imagining that person or situation as a mirror back to you for your OWN lesson, your OWN gift...
often in that simple re-frame, light is shed. A new perspective is gained, Higher empathy engages within you. You're then coming from a place of offering, inspiration, insight for that employee. You first did if for yourSELF.

Happy BLOOMing!

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    Are you ready to BLOOM?

    ​I believe 2020 is providing us with the right stage to use new language, new connections and collaboration to take our companies to the next and necessary level of engagement - for both employees AND for customers and patients alike.

    Looking through this new lens with heightened empathy, care, and alignment of your heart and head requires cultivating your mindfulness.

    A believer in truth, trust, beauty, and leading your company with an authentic heart, I help illuminate the path, shining a light in a dark room and allowing you to find the beauty within your own, and your organizations' walls.

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