VISION CHECK...ARE YOU RESOLUTE?

How are your resolutions coming... check out my latest article below that recently ran in the latest issue of the leading Women's Mortgage Magazine

Women With Vision Magazine https://wwvmag.com/issue/jan-2021/#VFactor%20Hero%20Image

RESOLUTE VISION

It’s the time of year when we talk about personal and professional resolutions, goals, and things we want to change and accomplish. In the beginning, looking ahead with fresh hope for the coming year, we are energetic and filled with intention. How often have you (make that we) lost our good intentions within a short time? This is a sad truth for most of us, and one easily changed.

Turning resolutions into achievements begins with vision: the ability to see our path and our goals clearly. Vision drives our imagination which fuels inspiration and implementation. Why is it implementation often peters off to inaction? Action feeds our vision, our goals, our dreams, and enables us to achieve our aspirations.

At this time of the year, you may join the millions who make resolutions. Let’s take a moment to look at the word resolution. It’s often thrown around loosely in passing and not fully understood. At the core of the word is resolute, to make your resolutions come to pass, you must be resolute.

Resolve to set your intentions. Resolve to clarify your vision. Be resolute in acting.

Last year at this time, I knew I wasn’t living out my purpose. I knew myself to be blessed and happy to, seemingly, have it all. I have a wonderful, healthy family who love me to the Tetons and back. I’m healthy, growing stronger mentally, physically, and spiritually every day. Yet, I recognized something was missing. I asked myself, “What do you love to do?” In discovering the answer to this deceptively simple question, I decided to step out of my comfort zone into the blustery air, set my goals, and create a plan.

Early in 2020, about the time most New Year’s Resolutions devolve, I was contemplating my business life, not feeling fulfilled, and struggling with my plan. I decided to reach out to a friend who arranged for a conversation with the regional leader of a company I wanted to work for. It was a great meeting, but no positions were available. Two nights later I had a dream of me working alongside the company’s CEO, walking in dirt fields planting and harvesting, enjoying people’s smiles, and hearing echoes of rejoicing.

This had never happened to me before. I felt certain I was supposed to join this company. Over the next months, I reached out, knocking consistently, with no doors opening. The rewards weren’t instantaneous. Every day, no matter how I felt, I put myself out into the world, pushing against my doubts and fears, keeping the vision and the destination, clearly in view.

One morning I woke up with the word RESOLUTE stuck in my head. I got up and wrote it down and placed it on my vision board next to my desk. I continued to reach out to the company for months with barely a glimmer of hope. Then, in month nine, I knocked again and the door opened to exactly where I was supposed to be. It’s a beautiful thing when your passion and career come together.

Being resolute begins with understanding your why. When driven by purpose we have more success, personally and professionally. What drives your vision? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? How would the world be bettered by your purpose?

What sets your soul on fire? The more purpose the greater the fire. When our lives line up with our core beliefs, being resolute and continuing to act upon our values allows us to experience much more than a life of success; it will be a life of significance. Who must you fearlessly become and what must you fearlessly do to accomplish your vision?

The good news is no matter how far off track, how old you are, or how stuck you feel, it’s not too late to map out your purpose and fulfill it. Keep your destination firmly in mind. Define your path and when you stray off course, anchor yourself in resoluteness and perseverance.

My word for 2021 is RESOLUTE. If you make a resolution, be resolute and unwavering about your vision, your goals, and your aspirations. Act. Be resolute and stoke your fires continually. Here’s to a year of being resolute!