How to Start Getting Clarity

Last post, I talked about the importance of clarity to help reduce the stress produced by what I call your “Attention Tug-of-War”.

The first area to seek clarity in is at a personal level. To do so, the first step I recommend is to ascertain if you are aligned in a number of areas:

• Talents – Are you leveraging all you talents?
• Passion – Do you love what you do?
• Values – Are you working in congruence with your values?
• Beliefs – Are you acting in-line with you beliefs?
• Principles – Are you compromising any of your core principles?

Nothing is more stressful than working too much off-center in any of these areas.  If you are unbalanced, you need to clear that up quickly or you need to accept living a more unpleasant life.

In my experience, clarity comes from conviction.  Conviction means we are certain or convinced of something.  This feeling of certainty energizes us to act and, more importantly, sustain the effort necessary to accomplish whatever we set out to do.

Whenever I have one or more good reasons for something (what some have called a BIG WHY), I get going and no one can stop me.  If you dig into some of your greatest accomplishments, you will probably find a few powerful reasons behind them.  I am willing to bet big on that!

If you want to get energized for clarity’s sake, find a good reason or two and you’ll see what can happen.  Another small but powerful exercise that helps energize efforts is to imagine how you will feel when you accomplish what you set out to do.  This is very useful during the tough moments that all worthy endeavors present.  When you hit that wall, remember the reason(s) you are doing what you are doing and imagine how you will feel when you are done.  It should help you and keep you clear!!!

Try it.

The BEST is Yet to Come!

Epi Torres, CEO