It’s just one week later… how resolved are you on those 2012 goals?

Resolve burns deep.  Your resolve needs to be bigger than just a drive to accomplish.  That’s why I asked you about your purpose, your vision, and your passion.  I was reminded of this, just this week, as I was reading the book, That Used to Be Us, by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.  The book shares the following conversation with Diane Rosenberg, head of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California (between San Francisco and Palo Alto).  Nueva is a school for gifted children, which has incredible resources and approaches that have earned it a well-deserved national reputation.

Rosenberg says that she and her colleagues approached the issue of how to nurture creativity by starting with a simple question: Who are the successful people in life?  “As we looked around,” she recalled, “the answer was that they were people who pursued their passion with a purpose. And they were all-in, in doing so.  They did it with their entire being, whatever it was.  They were pulled by something inside them, not driven.”

So I pose this to you: It’s not even two weeks into the New Year.  How’s your resolve?  High?  Higher?  Or dwindling?  Why?

If it’s high or higher, there’s a good chance you feel that pull.  You can’t help but surge forward.

If it’s dwindling or feeling like a lot of work, then you may not have connected your goals deeply enough.  You may have a whole other level that you can reach.

This is not to say that perseverance isn’t needed at times.  Believe me – it will be.  It’s not going to be purely smooth sailing, with a margarita in hand!

But, if your passion, purpose, vision, values, and mission are aligned with your goals, it’s amazing what comes your way, what opportunities reveal themselves to you, and how your future pulls you forward.

What are you going to do in order to feel and fuel that fire?

What are you going to do to build on the fire you feel burning inside?

It’s up to you.  You’ll get out whatever you put into this year (for better or worse)… in fact, you usually get a whole lot more.  It starts with you.

Live on Fire!

D. Luke Iorio, CPC, PCC, ELI-MP
President & CEO
Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)