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Creating Alignment


What is the connection between your actions and goals?

How do your goals connect to your overall mission and purpose?

Do you have a sense that what you do matters and gets you closer to accomplishing what is most important to you?

High performance leaders align their actions to their goals and their goals to their mission.

It's how they get things done that matter.

It's the filter of success. Does that task that someone is asking you to do contribute to your purpose? Then do it. If it doesn't, negotiate another path, another step, perhaps another set of hands to get it done.

Our time is too valuable to spend it on anything that does not contribute to our happiness, and our happiness is largely dependent on doing what matters most to us and that contributes to the well-being of others.

We can run, we can hide, but without that alignment of action, goals, and mission how will we ever reach our potential?

Alignment creates that guidance that we need in times of uncertainty. Alignment clarifies our focus and leads us forward. Like a beacon of light in the fog of night, alignment helps us stay the path and navigate our way thru unending challenges on our way to success.

When has alignment made things easier for you? Wouldn't you like more of that?

How will you clarify your alignment today?





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