March, 2016
HOW QUICK-SKETCH IS A GAME CHANGER FOR CREATING AND REACHING GOALS!

               “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
                                                                         George Bernard Shaw

Quick Sketch helps you create your life…a game changer for focus, clarity. It’s a game changer in that it breaks you free, gets you unstuck, helps you visualize, evolve, and create a focused determined path to reach your goals.

From team sports like football, individual best training for a marathon; or when it comes to getting your important goals completed, a certain “super sauce” is needed! Seems like the individuals and teams that become champions are the ones that have intense focus and “talk” between their minds and bodies as well as other team players. Well known fact, if the focus is not there, performance does not reach its best. For most, to create an intense focus relies on clear messages going from point A to point B!

How do you get from A to B?
Clarity, focus (and a ton of effort)…are powerful key values that get you from stuck to unstuck and on your way. When you have a journey to go on, it requires some sort of map, process. For athletes and many super stars it also is the ability to focus so keenly they can visualize all the minute details, movements, and desired outcome that cause their performance to match their visualizations and win. There are many psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, coaches, mentors, available to help get folks focused and clear on goals.

In business and in life, the key is to break down goals into small stepping stones so that one CAN become clear on process, needs, taking focus into determined steps to move forward rather than remain stuck on a HUGE mountain of a goal. Maps, lists, your agreed upon “to do” lists that you make everyday are necessary to create forward movement.

Turn Munster Cheese into Swiss cheese.
When you want Swiss cheese and all that is available is a ton of Munster, punching holes into a solid block of Munster Cheese can make your very own version of Swiss cheese. As you punch one hole after the other, pretty soon that heavy block of cheese looks like a completely different cheese that has pathways that lead to more pathways. You can make Swiss cheese out of your Solid Heavy block of goals as you break down goals into “steps” and “to do” lists. You can visualize your steps (punching holes!) in clear form by doodling each of your goals into “doable” daily, monthly, 3 month to 6 month and finally year “maps”. When you write this down, actually draw it out…your mind and your emotions can “see” that things ARE possible. With focus and determination you are quite clear in the steps you need to take to succeed. When you merely “think” of steps, somehow they never materialize and there you are…stuck as usual. Doodle it out, make it happen!

Doodle treasure maps!
Why not make your OWN map for your goals. Isn’t your goal the “treasure” you are wanting to find, with quick sketch visuals you can take each step and make up a map that gets you from A to B. The visualization and sketching out of the steps is your vehicle that floats you safely and with confidence to your end game results!

Attention flows where energy goes…draw it out, recognize, focus, and follow your unique route to your goals. AND, see if you are following your plans by using your process sketches as a touchstone to get you back on track if you stray. Some businesses call this “mind mapping”, others call it storyboarding, graphic facilitation, doodling, quick sketching. All the same thing, it’s the drawing out of key points, steps, so you can clearly see where you are going, and bring everyone else along with clear vision and aligned goals.

Outcome from Quick Sketching steps: Breaking down, drawing out both wants and challenges that show you clarity of the PURPOSE of your desire in turn creates positive POWER to achieve your goals. The power to create your focus, reach your goals.

Quick Sketch…get unstuck, and inspire others to ignite their own focus, purpose, and passion!

Thanks for taking time with some fun ideas to get unstuck and get going!

I’m Paula Brown, Visual Scribe / Author. I am a visual storyteller showing you how to IGNITE YOUR STORY, YOUR ENERGY, YOUR WELL-BEING for both business and home. My site is: www.chilightful.com Connect on: LinkedIn, Twitter. and you can “like” my facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ChiLightful