Hi, how are you? I'm so glad you're here! I have something very special for you
today, something that is a little bit different than I normally do, now I'm
gonna ask you some questions. Do you ever feel like you don't know what your
purpose is? Do you ever feel like you're spinning your wheels? Well I have the
solution for you! It is simple, it is easy and it is something you can start today.
Hi, I'm Adriana Girdler, I'm president of CornerStone Dynamics and a productivity
expert and I'm here today to share with you something that's very special and
magical but super easy to do. Now, when I'm with my clients I work with tons of
their team members and we're constantly looking to get their organizations on
track ensure their organizations have purpose and we're moving forward
efficiently, effectively. And whenever I do that I always get their team members
coming up to me saying, Adriana, how do we do this for me? I want to have purpose, I
want to get on track, I want to do those things.
I look at you, Adriana, and you have it all! And you know what, I feel pretty good
about it because I do have it all, I have everything that I'm meant to do in my
lifetime, I am so connected with my purpose and that is what I want to share
with you today is how to get connected to your purpose because by understanding
what your purpose is, you are gonna live life successfully because success is not
about what you get, it's not about checking things off that list, it's
really about going inward, it's about connecting to your heart's desire and
it's about living your purpose every day, waking up and knowing: this is what I get
to do today! Now, I'm going to share with you how to do it and that's the visual
visioning. Right here is my personal vision, it guides me every day, I have it
everywhere, I have it on mouse pads, I have it in my home office, this is my office
office, I have it on screen share, why? Because I make decisions with it. It's
not something I just look at occasionally, I wake up and I go, this is
who I am and this is what I'm about. It allows me to make those yes-and-no
decisions because I promise you, there are doors of opportunity everywhere and
the question is, are you open to it? Are your eyes open to it and
the only way you know is if you're connected to your
vision. Now, how do you do this? I've been doing this for a long time and over the
years I've tried many different things but I've learned and what I find to be
the most easiest way that really gets you to where you want to go is turning
it into a visual vision and putting a story around it and putting really good
pieces of information that are gonna act as a guide because your vision is your
tool. It's your tool every day to get you where you want to go on your purpose so
the first thing I always do with all my clients is we benchmark. Where are we at
today? So where are you at today? Do you know where you are today? And what I mean
by that is, not where you physically are today but where are you from a
standpoint of what you want out of life. Are you doing everything that people are
expecting you to do so you're not even living your own passion or purpose but
you're living what other people think you should be doing? Or are you connected
to your desires? Or, are you so afraid to connect your desires that you don't do
anything? This benchmarking is important because it allows you to figure out what
it is that you're doing and to understand where to put your attention
to so if you are doing everything that everyone is telling you to do, I call
that the shoulds - 'shoulding' on yourself. There's a right or wrong associated with
it, you've really got to evaluate that because
I promise you, 10 years from now you'll be upset, like, what have I done? I wasted
my life, how much time are you spending on your desires and your passions? If
you're not spending enough time there then you've really got to ask your question
why? Why, and even more importantly are you just doing things that are neutral
so you just kind of just hanging out? It's really critical to know this
benchmark because that's gonna help guide you and propel you to that next
level. Now, another thing that you really need that helps with vision statements,
whenever you want to make that decision and use it as yes and no in your life,
is to understand what your values are. Your values are core to who you are, they
are the essence of your character, they are your line in the sand, you live them
24/7. This is what distinguishes people because you can have a vision, you can be
very clear, but sometimes you need to understand what your value is and by
really living your value you're going to be able to connect the value and the
vision that really gets you towards what you really want to do. Now,
values are something you've got to live every day, 24/7. You don't live them when they're convenient
because some people do that and you really got to ask some tough questions
around values like, if someone gave you a million bucks would you drop that value?
Well if you just said yes, guess what? That's not a value. Values are something
that hold true to you no matter what. Now, I have a website, MyVisualVision.com,
check it out because I have a laundry list of values, I want you to take a look
at it. This is, ethically, who you are, your character, this is what distinguishes you
from other people, are your values. So, now that you've benchmarked, now that you
understand what your values are, I want you to create a story. So this is a
little bit different than what we're taught in a business perspective because
we're taught the one-liners that they should just be really quick, that you can
just roll them off your tongue, the problem with that is we
don't connect with it, they can be too obtuse, so you want to have some detail. I
call it the story, what's your story? Who are you? What do you want to do? Now in
order to create stories, it can be a little overwhelming so I like to put
things into what I call buckets. So, family's really important to me, so what
do I want out of family? What do I want out of friends? What do I want out of a career? What
do I want that's really important to me, like music? What do I want from other
things? So you really start to think about it.
Who am I, what's my story, what really am I passionate about and start putting
them into buckets and when you do this you want to create your story so what
are the things that are really important to you? You want it to be not to
pigeon-holed where it's like, detailed details that you're not going to be able
to see other opportunities and say yes to them, but you want it broad enough
that you're gonna be able to see stuff and maybe you wouldn't have connected
the two points together but guess what? Now that you understand and you have
that story around it you'll be able to connect those points and actually be
able to do something that you never thought you would ever do. Now, I have a
really good example of that on my TED talk because I talk about the importance
of visioning and that's exactly what happened to me with musical notes, now
I'm not gonna go into detail with that but it is a pretty cool story, one I'm
really excited about that changed my business so if you have an opportunity
and you're really interested in it, check it out. Last but not least, once you've
benchmarked, you understand where you're at, you've got your values,
you have your story, you want to put it in a picture. Picture's worth a thousand
words, I cannot even express how important that
is, we see a picture it gives us emotion, we get connected to it and with the
picture a lot of things are told to me right now with just a glance. So if
you're gonna live this and you're going to use it as a tool you want to change it or put
it into a picture. I actually got mine professionally done,
I have it on canvas because that's how important it is to me. This is your life,
this is your purpose, successful people understand this and that's why they're
successful, because they're living their purpose, they're connected to their
heart's desires and they ensure that everything they do moves them forward to
that and that's what I want to share with you because it's a question I get
asked all the time, how do you do it. And it's not that I'm special, different or
unique, I'm just a person like you and guess what? We're all special, we're all
different, we're all unique and you don't have to spin your wheels whatsoever, you
have to be very clear with what you are, don't get distracted with what I
call the white noise of life, I want you to focus inward, not on the outward stuff.
Now if you're really inspired, I have some amazing resources for you, check out
my website MyVisualVision.com, totally dedicated to visioning because that's
how really passionate I am about it, my TED talk is on there too if you want to
get some inspiration but there's lots of things on the web, there's tons of things
you can do, there's even workbooks that you can go through and you can fill out
and it can take you through the journey of creating your own personal vision
statement but more importantly turn it into a visual, it's a powerful tool. Now
on that note I hope I inspired you, please, you know what? Give me some
comments below! Tell me if you've actually done this. I would love to hear from you
and if you've actually gone to the step of creating your own visual, send it to me, I
would love to partake and see what inspires you. Thanks so much, until my
next video, see ya!