My year in review

As we close out another year and prepare to enter a new decade I wanted to share my 2019 annual reflection with you. I believe before one can move forward they must first follow the tracks they’ve made for there is no experience wasted and all things lead toward a greater good. So here goes.....

INTENTION

Webster defines intention as an idea that you plan to carry out. If you mean something, it's an intention. Your goal, purpose, or aim is your intention. It's something you mean to do, whether you pull it off or not.

I define intention as forward motion with your eyes wide open. Intention to me represents calculated steps. It’s strategic follow through. Intention is taking time to explore the possibilities and the risks and weighing them against your road map.

This picture was taken on December 31, 2018 following a vision board exercise my daughter facilitated.

As you can see from my vision board, INTENTION was my word for 2019.

My goals for 2019 were:

1. To complete my business growth curriculum following the release of my book in 2018.
2. To host live events allowing me the opportunity to impact the growth of more small businesses.
3. To speak on multiple stages across the United States, again, allowing me the ability to impact the growth of more small businesses.
4. To FINALLY line my ducks up in a row so all roads lead to one objective and that is to constantly build legacies.
5. To begin executing on my legacy dreams of having my children work for me and one day prepare to sit in the C Suite.
6. To create yet another millionaire.
7. To help my existing clients reach new heights and realize things they never dreamed possible.
8. To travel to new places and experience new cultures.
9. To further diversify our client portfolio. While government contracting continues to be our primary focus we want to diversify the types of businesses we can potentially bring to the federal marketplace and beyond.

1 = the birth of my first grandchild and a new beneficiary of my legacy. My why is getting deeper by the day.

• A Fine Arts consultancy whose mission is to cultivate the culturally curious and provide access to fine arts within excluded communities.
• A child and family development consultancy whose mission is to revolutionize education and environments for families of children with disabilities.
• A security training company whose mission is to keep environments safe by training law enforcement and institutions how to respond to active shooter circumstances.
• A career strategist whose mission is to nurture the workforce by helping corporations build strategies to serve their displaced workforce.

I learned that so very often we search and we search for answers to the questions we have about growth yet the answers are already within. We discredit our abilities in search for greater. We over complicate things. Because the goal is big, we believe the approach must be too. However, at the end of the road we learn that the simple yet most effective answers are right in front of us.

They say what got you here won’t take you there. Well sometimes it will take you there. You just need a little assessment and alignment for it all make sense.

You don’t need huge lists to achieve big wins.

You don’t need to hire top guns to open doors.

You don’t have to settle for scraps to get your foot in the door.

You don’t have to be like anyone else to succeed.

You most certainly don’t need a complicated approach to succeed.

What you simply need is a clear and concise plan, well monitored performance indicators, an active and engaged network, the desire to reach higher and the willingness to engage a team. That’s it. That’s all my clients and I have focused on all year. We’ve stuck to the road map!

So as we move forward into a brand new decade what can you expect?

Connection ~ Collaboration ~ Commitment ~ Contracts

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