With 2015 approaching, now’s the time to embrace a new way to inspire happiness and success in you and your team, network marketing expert Yogeeta Mistry says
Last month I talked about shifting the paradigm of SMART goals and replacing them with a new way of creating success by setting inspiring ideas into motion for 2015. This is all about creating ‘happy success’ and making your working decisions based on your passions, values and desires, which is far less clinical and regimented than logical left brain goal setting. This technique creates a sense of ‘heart work’, as opposed to hard work, for you and your team and makes work and business more of a journey.
### Identity ###
Of course, effort is required to obtain success, but your identity within your network marketing business doesn’t have to be solely based on the relentless pursuit of titles, pin levels and incentives to give you that sense of well-being.
Having built a multi-million pound network marketing business, I can assure you that creating a happy team who flow from their own inspiration will be far more productive than a team that feels stifled by an overzealous leader.
With a new year approaching, now is the perfect time to embrace a new way to inspire happiness and success in you and your team that’s based on creative thinking, rather than the annual routine of planning backwards and measuring your future success purely in numbers.
Inspiring ideas, or ‘inside-out’ goal setting, is all about alignment - aligning yourself with your business for all-round congruence. Get some A4 sheets of paper or A3-sized pieces of card, some coloured markers and write down the goals you want to achieve for your business. You can make this a team building exercise, but it will only be effective if you leave behind your ideas of what you think your team want to achieve.
As you write things down, notice how they make you feel or how they fit with you. Avoid kidding yourself as to what you want from life and business. Something either feels true or it doesn’t. You either feel good about something or you don’t. If it’s the latter in either case, it’s not coming from your inspiration, but from conditioned thinking.
What do you want to create next? This is not about ‘getting somewhere’, but about creating something unique and inspiring. Think in terms of your life, not just your business.
Your values play a significant part in your decision making. When these are compromised, you can begin to feel incongruent and perhaps even begin to resent your business. What are your top three values in life? How can you incorporate these into your business and in the way you work? Your business will begin to feel more like a journey rather than a relentless pursuit of the next level when you work towards satisfying your values first and foremost.
Forget logical next step goals. What do you really want? Logical next steps are the things you think you should be aiming for. Your business is about you, not your upline or downline or what others expect of you. What is meaningful to you? For instance, you may want to raise money for charity through your business, which is more meaningful than aiming for the next incentive.
What lights you up inside? Don’t say what you think you want to hear or what your upline wants you to aim for next or expects of you. Often we come from a place of someone else’s plan or expectation of us. This is about you.
If filling your home with people each week to create a sense of togetherness and indulging in the products you sell makes you happy, that’s fine. Just be the best version of you that you can be. When you come from your own authenticity, rather than trying fit into someone else’s plan, you’ll work with so much more satisfaction and ease.
### Measure ###
- This is only an introduction to setting inspiring ideas, but for those of you who need more guidance, here’s my own take on SMART to measure your inspiring ideas:
- Shine. Does it make you shine on the inside? Ask yourself: “Would I love to do that?”.
- Meaningful. What does something mean to you? If it’s packed with meaning, you’ll want to do it.
- Awakening. Does it make you come alive?
- Resonate. Is it in line with your values? Does it make you feel more aligned?
- Truth. Is it your truth? If not, then it’s incongruent. On that note, let me wish you the most wonderful festive season and I look forward to hearing how your inspiring ideas are making a difference to you and your team in 2015.
