Let’s Delve into 2012

January 2012… we return from the festive season literally sluggish. We don’t realize that our thinking and actions over the next 30 days set up one of three outcomes. A spiral of positive energy and a year of manifesting, a ground-hog year of staying in your comfort zone, or a downward out-of-control spiral which goes from bad to worse!    

You don’t need a crystal ball to see how 2012 is going to turn out for you. Those who actually achieve their desired outcomes will be the ones who live the following principles. They underpin the science of manifesting your personal or professional goals. If you want 2012 to be a year of growth, we suggest you:

1. Get real about where you are, and take responsibility for the fact that you are the author of your current level of results – good, bad or just enough to get by.
2. Understand the principles of Manifesting Mastery.
3. Appreciate that goals without actions are just dreams.

Let’s delve in 2012, and explore each of these in more detail:

1. Get real: Man the O.A.R. – take Ownership, Accountability and Responsibility for the results you are getting, personally or professionally.  There is a sense of personal power attached to getting real with yourself; acknowledging ‘I am where I am, the results are what they are, and my business/franchise/Branch/Unit/Practice/Contractual Agency is what it is.” Whether you’re happy with what you achieved in 2011, or not, you created it.

Your thoughts and actions created the results you achieved. You literally behaved your way into the outcomes you got. We read an article recently which suggested that if you behaved yourself into the current box you’re in, surely you can behave your way out of it.

True, but let’s also remember that all behavior is driven by your beliefs and values, so it stands to reason that unless you make a shift in your thinking and your core motivation, ‘behaving your way’ to better outcomes is the long path. For a faster and more sustainable approach, you must…

2. Understand the principles of ‘Manifesting Mastery’:

Most of you are manifestors, or you would not be reading this article, and yet, how consistent are you? You get to a point where you are disgusted with the results you’re achieving, so you adopt a change in thinking, and take massive action.

Three months later you are on a high and the results and funds are pouring in. At this point you cross a threshold, and FEAR creeps in; ‘I can’t maintain this, this is too good to be true’. Now the downward spiral starts and three months later you’re under pressure to perform. This roller-coaster between feast and fathom becomes the pattern.

Sound familiar? If so, you need to re-visit known but regularly forgotten universal laws of manifesting:

i)  Everything must be created mentally before it can manifest physically – the sales results, business KPI’s, your salary/commissions – it all operates on a vibrational energy. If you’re thinking is centered on ‘struggle, stress, its hard work’; that’s what you will continue to attract. If you’re thinking is congruent with abundance, possibilities and strong cash-flow, that’s what you can expect. Where your focus goes, energy flows. Here’s the formula…

(V + F) + A + C = Sustainable ‘Vibrational’ Manifesting.

(Visualizing + Feeling) + Action + Consistency = SVM

In summary, you must see it in your head, feel the feelings you will experience once you have achieved it, and then take consistent ongoing action. And you must be consistent with the first two parts of the formula. Action done without doing the V & F work beforehand will yield less productive result. It will feel like one step forward and two steps back. You must also appreciate that:

ii)  There is a lag factor between doing the energy work (the V & F) and the results manifesting. In the sales world we talk about the lag between doing the activities and getting the results; it’s the same with manifesting.  You must consistently do the activity of visualizing and feeling like it has already been achieved (the inputs), and then appreciate their will be a lag before you see evidence of the results (outputs).

iii) Turn downstream and go with the flow. Are you working with the current, or pushing against it? We are currently opening our retreat and Day Spa on the Gold Coast. You can imagine the expenses and start-up costs… and our focus/energy and self-talk turned upstream ‘Boy, this is a lot of work’, ‘Funds are becoming tight’. And before we knew it, cash-flow and funds dried up.

Clients who owed us money took ages to pay, and the bills started mounting. We realized we were pushing too hard to force it to happen with a massive launch and all the fan-fare. We decided to walk before we run; to open in a small way and bring more of the therapy rooms online later. We turned downstream – ‘This feels better’, ‘We can manage this level of start-up costs more effectively’, and ‘We have the resources to grow in phases over time’.

Within days of turning downstream and going with the flow, outstanding invoices were paid, unexpected revenues turned up, and one client even wanted us to invoice her for training which would not occur until next year, but wanted to pay it now before the year end. Amazing? Not really, just the laws of manifesting in action.

Finally, to fast-track your desired outcomes for 2012, you must…

3. Appreciate that goals without actions are just dreams.

Goals without actions are the equivalent of expecting outputs without inputs. We spend the lead up to New Year’s Eve gaining clarity on what our goals, dreams and aspirations are for the year ahead. We then spend New Year’s Day creating our Action Plans to get there. And by the way, plans are nothing – implementing is everything. Step 4 in ‘The 7 Step Pathway to Mastery’ is all about ‘Implementing’. Nothing happens until something happens. You must absolutely get clear on your goals, and have a very specific plan of activity (inputs) which will WHEN IMPLEMENTED create the desired results (outputs).

Call to action: For a copy of our Action Planning template to support your 2012 goal-setting, e-mail us at admin@enrichgroup.com.au

We would wish you all the best for 2012, but let’s finish by getting real; our wishes are external to you. The best way you can fast-track the results you want is to go internal. It all starts with your thinking and actions. Repeat after us… “If it is to be, it’s up to me”. And “Nothing changes until I change!”

Ian and Karina Stephens are directors of Enrich Management Group and co-founders of ‘Enrich Retreat & Spa’. They co-facilitate the ‘Enrich Experience’ weekend and other seminars to enrich your life and your relationships. They equip people with simple everyday tools to manage their mind and ‘state’ during times of uncertainty. For further information visit the web-site www.ianstephens.net.au