Creating a business plan for the 2013 is important and necessary if you want to be successful whether you are a professional writer, artist, performer, coach, or healer.
But, planning for your business and/or your creative work has to start from within. Clarity about your Inner Vision gives you clarity about where you want to go and what goals and actions will get you there.
Think of the Inner Vision for this year as that call to the bigger you…the you that is here to serve and express in your unique way. Once you define how to uniquely serve and express as that bigger you, then you’ll be better able to plan the programs, products, events and promotions for your business. You’ll know which goals are the right ones to work on this year, and which goals need to wait.
In consulting with clients this last few weeks about their Inner Visions, I used tarot cards for each of the questions below. If you have a tarot deck and want to pull cards for each of the questions as part of your process that is great, but if you don’t have cards, just sit with the questions and then free write in your journal whatever comes to mind.
- Where are you right now? That is, where are you in your relationship with your work? Think about what you’ve accomplished this past year and how that defines you. What would friends and clients say about you and your work? See if you can sift that down to three strong nouns or adjectives.
- What is the dream, the vision, the calling that has been reaching out to you lately? Don’t think of this as an achievement. Think a layer or two below that. For instance, if what comes immediately to mind is publishing your book, what is below that? Finally making income from your passion? And what is below that? An ability to delight, entertain, educate, help thousands of people? Want to hold a retreat? What is below that? A desire to show women their creative power and the ability to transform their lives through that power? THAT is an Inner Vision…
- What stands in your way or challenges you? Sometimes our circumstances require creative solutions, but more often it is our own inner attitudes and beliefs, old ways of being and doing that get in our way. For example, one client was so used to being the grounded nurturing coach that she held back on being the fierce, passionate coach she needed to be to move her clients to the next level. Another client needed to get out of her head and into her heart more.
- What are three actions you can take to move through the challenge and toward the Inner Vision? These actions could be simple practical steps like using stronger terms in your writing or copywriting or contacting a gallery. Other times, the actions require more energy and commitment, like taking an emotional or creative risk, or letting go of an old habit or relationship. But think of at least three things you can do in the New Year to move you closer to that Inner Vision.
- Who or what stands ready to help? No, you don’t have to do it alone. Why do we fall into the trap of believing that? Family, friends, colleagues are usually ready and happy to help…if we ask! So ask. Ask the Universe, Source, Goddess, God. Look for help in your environment, for resources and tools that may already be present but up until now were not recognized or perceived as useful or contributing.
- What is unseen? This is a great question to ask of the tarot when you are pulling cards, but you can also ask this question as a closing question in your journaling time and then wait to see what signs and synchronicities answer you. You just have to pay attention.
Before the New Year carries you away on the rush of one month, one season into the next, take some time to sit with your journal and your cards, if you have them, and answer these questions.
From that Inner Vision comes the Outer Vision where you can set goals, establish timelines and layout action plans…
For a prosperous and creatively abundant New Year…within and without.
If you’d like help with your Inner Vision, email me to schedule your Inner Vision Tarot Consult for $97. Includes scan of cards emailed to you after the call.