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| SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS |
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Use the questions on this page to help sharpen your focus, clarify your vision, and bring a greater sense of purpose to your life and the work you
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Answer any of the questions you choose, be as clear and specific as possible, and most of all utilize them in any way that suits you. Please feel free
to Contact us with questions or comments. |
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What do you want to create in your work and in your life? |
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(Please list as many items as you would like in order of importance...) |
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What are the challenges you see in your path of personal and professional growth? |
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In the past, what has made these issues so challenging? |
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Are these the same challenges you are likely to experience in the future? |
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Is there a way around any of these challenges? Or is confronting them the most direct path to what you want to create? |
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If you could have someone take action for you on any one challenge, what challenge would you like it to be and what action would you like
that to person take? Does it matter who takes that action? |
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What have you learned from these challenges? |
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What role do you (and your company) play in the scheme of things? |
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Can you envision an even bigger role for you (and your company)? If yes, what is it? |
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What are your short term personal and professional goals? What is it that you want to create most this year? |
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What are your longer term goals? What would you really like to create during the next three years? What about the next five
years? |
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Is there a goal you would like to create prior to your retirement? If yes, what is it? |
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Is there one step (no matter how large or small) you can take today that could begin to create this goal or goals? |
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Have you shared these goals with anyone? Your family? Your friends? Your team members? |
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Do your family, friends and the people you work with share your vision and goals? Are they working with you to create what you want? How
do you know? |
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How do you empower these people to share your vision? How do you encourage them to help you create what you want? |
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How much of "THEIR" vision and goals have you incorporated into yours? Are they encouraged to share their vision and goals with
you? |
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Are you open to change? How much change is okay? Is it easier for you to change once someone else changes (their mind, their opinion,
their behavior, etc.)? |
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How often do you set your goals? |
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How often do you review your goals? |
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Are you open to re-defining your goals? |
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How often do you evaluate your progress? |
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What measures of success do you rely on to evaluate your progress? |
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Do you reward yourself for successfully achieving your goals? How? |
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Do you reward your family, friends, and your work partners for helping you achieve your goals? How? |
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Do you decide the reward, or do they? |
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What are your obstacles to short term survival? |
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Do you have any short term opportunities? If yes, what are they? |
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What are your obstacles to long term survival? |
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Do have any long term opportunities? If yes, what are they? |
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What do you need to have happen to move yourself (and your firm) from survival to success? |
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Are there any actions you can take to bring this about? |
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Do you have a clear vision of your life's purpose? Your life's work? |
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How often do you allow yourself to dream? |
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What do you dream? |
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Why did you choose this business, industry or occupation of all the opportunities you could have chosen? |
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Have you always wanted to do what you are doing now? Looking back to one year prior to entering your current field of work... what did you
want to do then? |
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Can you remember why you wanted to do it? |
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Knowing what you know now, would you still choose this business or profession? Why? Why not? |
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Just prior to entering your current field, what did you originally envision your work would be like? Is it better than you thought? Is it
just what you envisioned? Or is it somehow worse?
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If you could change one thing... anything... about it, what would you change? |
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What do you REALLY want to create? Look at your response to the first question. Is it the same? |
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If you have any questions or comments, please add them below. If you choose to send your worksheet to us, we will review it and respond to
your inquiries promptly. |
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Truth has many layers. Your challenge is to find YOUR deepest truth... then follow it! Thank you for sharing... |
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