I am trying to integrate all of me and all of my practices and all of my tools and really step into leadership this year to assist all of you in doing the same for yourself. This is your Badass Drenny podcast. I am Terrine Walsh, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist, executive leadership coach and best selling author. Each week I will bring you a guest or thought that will help you align what you love with what you do in order to build that badass life and business you dream of.
Hey there listeners. Welcome to today's direct to you episode. So as you know, if you've been listening to me for at least the last six weeks, I had my bout with COVID and luckily I'm on the mend. My voice is so much better now.
It's not at 100 percent yet, but I am feeling great. And because of the energy I have back into my daily life in order to show up for my family, my friends, my business, et cetera, I'm also on a little bit of a delayed plan, which is great because that also challenges me to go with the flow, the ultimate planner that I am. In my plan for 2021, generally what I do is use that last week of the year to really hyper focus on defining who I want to be and what I want to show up in, where I want to have impact and what I want to feel by the end of the year so that I can create a guiding force for all that I do, also clear boundaries on what I want to say yes to what I need to delegate get off my plate so I can make room for all that is new that I want to allow in or create and share with all of you. So since I'm a bit behind on some of that work, I should say I'm exactly where I meant to be because I really had to focus on healing and I'm just so grateful for all the care messages, the way you have reached out to me, especially for my husband who took care of me this whole time.
We are loving our quarantine life together and really just be in the now for what I plan for this year. Obviously time constructs are really whatever we make it. And what I realized when I was sitting in my visualization of 2021 and coming out of the year we had last year, I had a very successful business year. I would say if I look at the holistic approach, which I've talked about before and I don't know how many of you know this about me, but in 2010 I became a certified health coach with the integrative Institute of Nutrition and IIN for those of you who know what it is because I back then was really trying to figure out how do I master my health and let me tell you, I haven't mastered it.
It's always a work in progress. And if you're like me, as we evolve through time, we learn new things about what our body will tolerate, what our mind can handle, like how do we actually figure out what's optimal for us right now. So if I look at the full spectrum, when I went through that program, what I learned in that program was the circle of life, which is a graph that allows you to plot, you know, where you sit in satisfaction or fulfillment around these areas of your life. And for us entrepreneurs, we could easily feel as though that whole wheel is just our business and think that we are living holistically because when we are focused on our business, especially if we are the business, if we are the service, it blurs lines between really being clear on the fact that your business is what helps you generate income.
It helps you get your personal brand out there. It helps you build connections and relationships. But the true drivers around business or income driving or even career management now is what I call it. It's like the umbrella of career is really about fulfilling an aligning who you truly are and the work that you do.
But the ultimate result of that is how you earn and take care of what you're responsible for. And you know, you're income driving activities along with figuring out ways, which you know my show is all about for you to help you figure out how can you earn based on who you truly are. Well, that's only one slice of the pie of what we need to pay attention to. And when I look at my year as a whole and in general for you guys as you're planning for 2021 and what you want to accomplish and obviously because I talk and work with a lot of entrepreneurs and business leaders, we got to figure out how to actually integrate all of us into how we show up in that strategy, in that action plan, in the goals that we have.
So I start to categorize them for myself to make sure that I am paying attention to all areas, not just one, so that I can move forward in a whole way. So the categories that I break it down into are wealth, career, relationship, mindset and health. And amongst those categories, I will ask myself, what is the ultimate vision of me standing in a 10 out of 10 fulfillment in each of these arenas? Obviously, they integrate with each other, right?
You can't have one without the other. Like, if you don't have your house, there's no way you can show up for your job and there's no way you can have a healthy relationship and there's a way you can build out the wealth plan you want if you're feeling less than. But it's also you can't really have the healthy life you want if it requires an investment of out of network assistance in order to get that care you need or the programming need or the supplementation or the nutritionist and the chef and all the things. I have a team literally when I go through this exercise, all of a sudden I realize because the next thing I ask when I, after I break down the goals for each of these areas, it's like who do I need to assist me in achieving what it is I want?
Who do I need to learn from? Is there a service I need to hire? Is there something I need to continue to continually develop myself to really reach that optimal view and for vision that I have for each of these areas that I show up in the middle of it all requires assistance from others? So with that said, once you decide what ultimate vision is for each of these categories and then you ask and make sure you've defined who do you need to be to create that ultimate vision and then who do you need to assist you?
Who do you need to enlist in order to help you get there? It's amazing how much comes out of that to realize that you can put a full multiple year strategy against making that happen. Then what you do is you ask the third question which is what is one thing out of each of these areas you want to accomplish by and I would say for this specific exercise, let's go with March 31st, 2021. Because I personally, for me, for it to work for me, I have my ultimate vision, I know where I'm trying to go and it could take me a year, it could take me 10 years for the ultimate to happen.
But what I have control over is how I show up right now into what I can immediately create for myself that inches me towards that ultimate vision. And you guys know I do those retrospective exercises all the time, those exercises keep me in check to make sure I'm on course to that ultimate vision. So you now have the opportunity to put a March 31st goal together against each of these things. Because when you do that, you will see is anything conflicting?
Am I asking too much of myself? Maybe picking one right now to hyper focus on because it could be the lowest level of fulfillment for you in order to get a stronger foundation before you start the other things. But at least now you're creating a visual for yourself on what's truly needed in order to show up in it all. You guys with me?
Do you see how this helps you inch towards that life that integrates that business into all that you are in an incremental way towards that ultimate vision that you truly desire for yourself. And that's how I made it actionable by setting a goal for each of these things and charting against it. So for me, when I assessed starting the year within the health crisis of sorts, having to battle a virus and making sure that I had the right strong foundation to handle it. And even before this happened to me, I was closing out the year with I have to put my health first in 2021 in order to sustain this massive vision I have for what I want to put out into the world.
My health has to come first. So I had enlisted with, you know, new doctors, I started all the blood work, I did all the testing and then I got COVID. It's like all of a sudden because I was focused on my health, my body started to tell me the things that needed assistance. I've been dealing with like chronic pain on my left side.
So I have to get back into chiropractic care and acupuncture and like the body work that's needed. But it needs to be a primary focus and I must set very clear and concise goals for myself in this realm and enlist the help I need in order to achieve it because obviously me trying to do it all by myself is not working because I feel broken, you know, physically at times and I feel less or lower levels of strength than I know that I have. And it's because I need to enlist in the experts to assist me to get to that state of being that allows me to be all of who I know I can be in all arenas of my life and my business. So I share this with you today because even though I'm on a bit of a delay on making the plans for it all, what I'll tell you that got me through not feeling so well is really visualizing where I plan to be next and what really fuels me energetically to show up in it all.
And I was really brutally honest with myself on facing in each of these arenas, health, mindset, relationship, career and wealth. Where do I want to focus on my improvements this year? What do I need to enhance? What do I need to master in order to build a stronger foundation for what I plan to build and launch next?
I'm sharing this because I know you guys need to think more holistically as well. And even though focus is so important to achieve something, to be able to sit in vision and really allow yourself to feel what it would be like to sit in that ultimate vision and then charter a path for that from the inside out, not just the outside in. You have a much more solid foundation and integrative stance for you to achieve it. So here's what's trippy.
Last episode I shared with you the deck of cards I received. It was a beautiful gift from my sister who loves and knows me so well. She sent me these awesome cards from an artist called Autumn Skye and I call these energetic cards because on one side is this beautiful piece of artwork that Autumn has created and on the other side of it is a word with an energetic statement behind it that allows you to just focus on something new to bring into your energy today. That's why I love these cards because it gets me out of feeling like I know it all and allows the energy to show up for me to decide what to digest.
So I'm going to pull two cards for you guys today. I did already sitting here in front of me so I can read them off to you. Of course, if you follow me on Insta, you'll see that I actually share the images and of course you can go grab your own deck from Autumn Skye as well as just an Etsy store. She's amazing.
But what's great about the cards I pulled for this episode and the topic that I had not knowing that I would pull this, these cards is that I actually pulled my word of the year from the deck to share with you today. So I don't know if you guys have done that exercise either where you kind of come up with a theme word for the year. A lot of coaches do this with their clients and I've decided because I want it to be stronger in my stance and also the theme of the business is I'm planning to build launch how I show up and it all why my clients benefit from me so much like this word just kept popping up and the word is integration. And I actually pulled the integration card from the deck prior to starting this conversation with you but it's just amazing that my word actually came up.
So integration. So what it says on the card here is release worries, commit to your well-being, be patient with yourself, you are growing, let go and breathe. So if you needed that word of integration today, I'm going to reread what it says here because it is so yes, like every time I read it. So integration, release worries, commit to your well-being, be patient with yourself, you are growing, let go and breathe.
This one's going to stay up in my office for a bit, I'm going to tell you because this is so my word of the year, I'm super pumped about that. Because I did not speak to you today and integration is not the energetic word for you. I pulled another one so that you can pick one of the two that's called to you today. But this was also very aligned with the energy I want to consume also this year.
So the second word and it's a beautiful, beautiful piece of artwork too on the other side. Second word is adventure, adventure. Embrace the unknown, practice, unattachment, change is imminent, take a leap of faith and say yes. When we come to the beginning of a year, we're always in this energy of what's new, what's next, right?
So adventurous. And if you're sitting in any sort of doubt that somehow, somewhere in this world, it's not possible for you to achieve what it is that you want and find that level of fulfillment that you desire. I want you then to lean into this word of adventure. I'm going to read it to you again.
Embrace the unknown, practice, unattachment, change is imminent, take a leap of faith and say yes. I'm so loving these cards. I'm trying to do my best to pull them daily. I'm sharing them also on Insta.
So if you guys are into this and you want to see more of it, make sure you follow me there and let me know that it's impacting you and you want more of this. Because I am, like I said, my word is integration. I am trying to integrate all of me and all of my practices and all of my tools and really step into leadership this year to assist all of you in doing the same for yourself. Really aligning what you love with what you do every day and figuring out ways on how that breathes life and helps you invest in what it is that you truly want.
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