My Friend Melissa Krivachek, creator of the Passion Doctors group on Facebook, has unwittingly inspired me to blog one last time in 2010.  It is New Year’s Eve as I am writing this, the ball is 54 minutes from dropping in Times Square.  Melissa recently put forth amazing energy into a tome-sized manifesto on what we can expect of her in the year to come.  What you’re reading will be neither tome-sized nor a manifesto (although I do expect to violate the 600 word rule), but it will have to do with ENERGY...

In looking at annual rituals – like a New Year’s celebration or even a family picnic – Jim Rohn used to point out that these need to be woven like a tapestry as we never know how many more we have left.  If you’re 20 years old you might feel like you have 80 more New Years ahead of you; if you’re 60 or 80, you know for certain you don’t.  Vic Johnson makes the question all the more poignant when speaking about decades.  Now how many to you have left?  NOT THAT MANY.

Energize Your Year in 2011

I had a very energized year in 2010.  It was a year during which I built and shaped my company into a viable provider of coaching services and innovative products to help entrepreneurs and small business owners monetize their niche by pursuing their passion for profit.  The energy flow was fast, like the speed of light, windows opened and closed quickly (not speaking of Microsoft’s by the way or of that insipid commercial introducing the cell phone that would cure all other cell phone obsessions – REALLY?!), literally here this moment and gone the next.

That’s the plane I was and continue playing on.  I recall calling several people to pitch them with a JV idea, they expressed sincere interest but were wrapping up other projects, asked me to call back in 3-4 week – BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED.  Why?  Because in those 3-4 weeks a myriad of other opportunities materialized (E=MC²), and poof! like a magician’s wand or Moses parting the Red Sea, another path became either more attractive or more tangible, and the energy of those initial ideas dissipated like the water of a tributary running dry.

“When one door closes another one opens,” goes the saying, but the corollary is, you must step through the newly opened door before it too closes in your face.  So it is with going with the flow, with synchronicity, you have to step into the flow, meaning you must take action, which is based on a decision to do so.  I like the way John Addison, co-CEO of Primerica, talks about decide – it ends in cide like homicide, suicide, genocide, etc.  In making your decision you implicitly acknowledge that you are killing off your other options, they have died (at least for the time being).  Accepting this is an element of what the existential philosophers of the early- to mid-twentieth century defined as authenticity.

Collaboration Is Key

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I did enter into several JVs in 2010 thanks to the promptings of Eric Lofholm and Arvee Robinson.  Collaborative energy is exponential, the power of the Mastermind to synergize, the deconstruction of base-10 mathematics where now 1+ 1 = 3 or 4, and 2 + 2 might equal 20.  “Two heads are better than one” because of the fusion created upon the release of two egos that have both surrendered their self-interest and combined to pursue a higher, common purpose.  My JVs are already bearing fruit intellectually and monetarily, which should be among the criteria for assessing their productive energy.

I have several coaching clients I am currently working with who made major breakthroughs this year.  I am proud of this but much more proud of them.  The transformative energy that took place was like alchemy.  In fact, as I was sharing with my friend Marilyn Joyce, it had more to do with contagion than with any particular coaching techniques or methods I used.  I can offer a speculative explanation of what takes place, but that shall remain secret for now, at least in this writing.  So thank you especially to Pat and Tina and Robert and Dave for your willingness to exchange energy with me at a quantum level; at its most profound root all energy is spiritual energy to the extent that it emanates from a single source however you choose to name it, whatever you choose call it.

It Will Never Be Here Again

So what does “success coaching” look like at the dawn of the new decade?  To me it means helping to transform my client’s energy so he or she can proceed along his/her chosen path with confidence, passion, enthusiasm AND with the requisite strategic and tactical tools to reach one’s destination.  (That’s the “business” side of what I do.)  It may involve catharsis, releasing emotional blocks, clearing one’s energy centers.  It will surely mean helping my clients become aware of and overcoming addictions, inhibitions, compulsions, attachments, and wrongly identifying him- or herself as… this or that small ego without seeing or acknowledging their Higher Self or discovering their Higher Purpose.

Success coaching to me means mirroring and modeling – providing an honest reflection of what I see, reflecting back my clients' strengths and greatness, and walking the talk by SHOWING the way toward authenticity.  But as the Eagles sing it, “[I] can’t take you anywhere you don’t already know how to go.”  I will help my clients build networks, collaborations, JVs – the same actions that are serving me to evolve and to transform my own business as well as myself.  I am seeking and attracting clients who desire Total Personal Alignment coupled with success strategies that work.

Tomorrow is 1/1/11.  You might have 60-80 more New Years, maybe 5 or 6 more decades, but will NEVER have another 1/1/11.  Treat each day gratefully as if it were the miracle you will never see again, and you will be right.  Happy New Year.  Happy New Decade!