Reach for the stars...

What would you think if you walked into a meeting room and found six adults, brandishing scissors, cutting out photos from magazines and enthusiastically sticking them down onto pieces of paper? That was the sight that greeted one of the guests attending the ActionCoach training seminar on Vision, Values and Purpose.

It had followed on from the regular fortnightly meeting and the exercise neatly tied in with working on creating our goals for 2008, helped along by some inspirational images. The theory is that if you can see who you want to be, what you need to do and what you want to have, you are far more likely to achieve it.

After Las Vegas our language has made our own ambitious goals for Morgan PR and beyond almost alarmingly real and our guru-like coach Sally Rainbow-Ockwell points out that the language we use has real impact on what we will achieve. Even just saying it can make it happen!

Sally had asked us to bring in our favourite magazines and laughed when Nigel brought in a copy of The Economist. Naturally she had hoped for a magazine brimming with aspirational images... Nigel finished his poster almost completely from The Economist, needing to venture into another only to secure a photo of an Aston Martin.

We all found it great fun and very revealing. Maybe not such child's play after all?

Setting Goals for 2007 with Profit Club

It was back to Faringdon at lunchtime today for the first Profit Club of 2007 and the chance to step outside the business and focus on the future and how to maximise the potential of Morgan PR, which is already growing at a phenomenal rate.

Appropriately January is an intensive month with the business coaching, with an evening session tomorrow and then another lunchtime meeting in a couple of weeks and then the 90 Day Planning Seminar, which will be a full day.

The statistics make all this worthwhile. Only 3% of people have written goals and plans and these people account for 98% of the wealth.

Perhaps my favourite explanation for the difference between a task, goal and vision was that a task can be done straight away and you know how to do it. A goal is more long term and you kind of know how to do it. A vision – you will not have a clue how to get there! Lots of goals, naturally!

I’m being flippant. However the point to stress is how important goals are and by setting them for Morgan PR I know how much of a difference it makes.