When you take the time to capture things that are going really well, it reminds you that not everything is going so bad. This is your Badass Journey Podcast. I am Terine 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 bad ass life and business you dream of.
Welcome everybody to another episode of your Badass Journey Podcast. It has been so much fun being on this journey with you as we walk through the tips and tools and methods I use to get super clear. Because what today's episode is all about is knowing that clarity wins always. It is one of the things that whenever I'm sitting in overwhelm, whenever I am feeling like I'm sitting in my reactionary space and trying to control it all, I have to get super clear on what is really going on with me in the situation I'm in and what is it that I truly want.
So if you're new to listening to the show today, we are continuing down a series where I am talking directly to you and dining you through my SLP mastery workbook, which you can grab a copy of if you'd like. If you're new to joining, you can hit pause and also go back to previous episodes and join us on this journey because today's conversation is all about clarity and checking in with you on what it feels like when you are super clear, how easy it is to then step into aligned action. When you're stuck in a cheaper mode, you constantly think you have to do something. And a lot of the times when I'm called in as a coach in companies, whether it's a coach with leaders, the number one thing I do is let's get clear on what it is that you really want, which is what we have done in the past episodes and really getting clear on the what ifs and what it could look like and what your ideal day feels like smells like tastes like etc.
So you started to get clarity on your true vision. Well, now that you have that, you can now figure out how to create clear action that aligns to that vision. When we continue to sit in things of doing because we think we're supposed to versus is this something that will actually inch me towards what I truly desire, how we show up in it immediately changes. We literally have an energy shift when we are aligned with our clear vision.
So that's why I wanted to check in with you today. How are you feeling about doing the work and setting across setting the time aside to really focus on what it is that you truly want to articulate what that looks feels like and would be like if you stood in that. And then the follow up question to that is who do you think you need to become in order to stand in that clearly? Because that is the up leveling shift that you are about to go through.
What's really great about going through the SLP mastery workbook as it gives you that clarity first because when you're clear, you can easily create aligned action. You know now what you would say no to if it showed up because it's not aligned with that vision and you know what would be an easy yes to jump into because it was 100% aligned. You see how easy and how real being clear and taking the time to get clear wins. So how can I support you today is what I always asked myself before I kick off an episode to share with you and really help you through this guidance.
And because I've done this time and time again, not only in my own life when I'm feeling that way, but then I use it as a facilitation tool and exercise when I'm working with my clients, I want to give you an assessment tool that's going to help you get super clear when you're in it. So if you're just tuning in and you haven't listened to the past episodes, you could totally leverage this exercise because it's going to help you get clear. It's going to help you identify things that you should probably let go of. And then it's going to help you identify how to step into action that is aligned with your ultimate vision.
And it might sound a little bit abstract listening to this and you might feel a little bit unsure as like, where's this going? But trust me, you've trusted me so far and I really appreciate you and all your messages that you've been sending me in regards to the new episodes coming out and how it's been impacting, you know, how you show up every day because that's really what this is for. It's for the dialogue and it's for the support and it's to encourage you to continue to step into your badass journey because you deserve it and it is there for you. And so today's tool is really to help you get a quick assessment on where you understand right now against your aligned vision, against your goals, whatever, whatever constructs you choose to pick, you can use this assessment tool across all of it.
So what do I mean by that? We each have areas in our lives where either bringing us down or lifting us up, right? So if you did the fulfillment exercise that I've shared with you previously in past episodes and if you need access to it, go ahead and check it out on the site or shoot me at the end and I'll send you that exercise. But truly knowing what fills you up and where you are thriving and what helps you stay in your zone of genius.
We talked about that in a former episode as well. It will really help us figure out for you what aligned action needs to be in the other areas that might be pulling you away, pulling you back from standing in your aligned vision, pulling you away and distracting you because it might be timed consuming, but it's not filling you up or it's not inching you towards those goals. Right. So now if you think about your whole life, there are areas where maybe you're booming right now in your career, but your health is completely at risk.
And so not feeling healthy is actually holding you back from really pushing yourselves and yourself in the career that you want because there isn't a focus in the health and energy required in your ultimate vision of your life and your ideal day. What that, you know, we went through those exercises in order to sustain your high energy in applying your zone of genius daily. So let's just say that's an example. If you were to score your satisfaction, your fulfillment in health to be, let's say, a three out of 10 and your career is a nine out of 10, then as you go through this assessment exercise, I'm going to share with you, you could put your lens on health as you go through it, because that this will help you identify when it comes to your health, for example, what to then do next that could be an aligned action to inch you upwards from a three out of 10 towards maybe a seven out of 10 or five out of 10, just make it better in an incremental way.
So hopefully you're following along. I'm just trying to help you figure out what topic to select as we're looking at this assessment exercise so that you can quickly identify and get super clear right now and repeat this exercise over and over again in order to help you stay in aligned action during this time. And I recently just share this exercise with one of my coaching groups, accelerate your growth coaching groups. I also just did it on a leadership talk series and the benefits from it have been amazing.
So I'm really excited to share it with you today. Okay. So if you have a pen and paper, go ahead and draw a four part quadrant on your piece of paper. So it's aligned from the top down and aligned across in the middle of it.
So it looks like you have four parts on your piece of paper. Now on the top left corner of this quadrant, you just drew. We're going to focus on what are the things that you are so excited about and have gone so well that you just want to celebrate what has gone really well. Now give yourself a timeframe.
So let's just because we've been in this isolation and dealing with work, life integration and the COVID has hit us all. So let's just focus on, let's say the last 60 to 90 days. I want you to take an inventory of what has been going really well and write it down. Because when you take the time to capture things that are going really well, it reminds you that not everything is going so bad.
It's very easy for us in our minds to focus on the things that are not working, that are not going well and forget about the things going really well. So in the categories that I talked about before, like let's pick a focus for you. So what's going really well. So I'll just use the example I started with, which in your health, like what's going on really well in the last 60 to 90 days when it comes to your health, your health management, your fitness, nutrition, your energy, what's been going really well and list that out.
And again, you can choose any category you want, but for this example, I just want to pick one so I could guide you through this exercise. And as you take two minutes to write that down, just keep writing what's going really well, what's gone really well. Things you want to celebrate, things you might have accomplished, things that you want to, you know, if you could do always, you'd be super excited about what are those things. You can hit pause, get them all down and then hit play again to go to the next part of this exercise.
So now that you have everything that has gone really well written down on the bottom left side of the quadrant, I want you to put a frowny face. And what you're going to list here are the things that you need to stop doing, that are distracting you or holding you back or keeping you out of alignment with your health goals for this specific example. Now, if you chose career, it could be around career, if it's around money, it's about your life in general, whatever it is, what do you need to stop doing that's pulling you away from feeling 10 out of 10 fulfilled in the area you chose and just start listing them out. Again, you can press pause.
And then when you're ready, come back and hit play after you've listed out the things that you feel you should could stop doing, the things that are distracting you, listen out. Now that you're back and able to move on to the next part of this assessment tool, on the top right corner of your piece of paper, put a plus sign. And I want you to answer this question. What are the things that you can start doing that would help you either sustain the things that are going really well or help you stop the things or replace the things that you need to stop doing?
So what do you need to start doing that would help you inch towards that 10 out of 10 fulfillment in the category that you selected? What do you need to start doing and just list out some of those activities and actions that you feel you could start doing, start to do. You can hit pause, write that down and then hit play again when you're ready. So now in the bottom right corner, I want you to first sit and answer this question.
And you can even say it out loud if you're on your walk, listening to this podcast and you kind of had these things in your mind and you haven't really written it down yet, I encourage you to go back and listen to this episode and do this exercise on paper. It matters for you to help get clear again. Today's talk is all about clarity because when I've helped you identify just now in the last, I don't know, five minutes, maybe doing this exercise, is that you've something to celebrate that's going really, really well and that energizes you. You've also identified and super clear on the things you need to stop doing.
And now you've created a list of things that you need to potentially look at, start doing. And the last section of this exercise is to determine of the things that you would like to start doing that would help you inch towards what it is that would be a 10 out of 10 fulfillment against the category you selected. Pick one. What's the top one?
What's the one that will inch you towards it and make you feel super excited if that started right now and write down that one action in the bottom right side of your piece of paper as the action that you will choose and be super clear on focusing on. You see how now you have clarity on an action you can take. This is how aligned action is created. When all of you sit in the how, I don't know how many times I get the question, carrying, how do I do this?
How do I do this? How do I do this? And I always want to ask, well, why do you want to do it before I answer the how? Because the how we will always figure out the how we can even delegate if we need to.
Why and what you need to spend time in and get super clear on so that the energy around the action around the how is aligned action. And I love this exercise because it immediately gets you aligned and super clear on what to do next and it's quick and it's easy and it's repeatable, which you know I'm all about because I do it in my life. I do it for my business. I have been leveraging this tool.
I learned it as a, you know, scrum master in my agile days running tech teams. We would run these retrospectives and check in on how we're performing as a team. And then I started to apply it to myself in all that I do to get super clear and create aligned action. Now, in order to see the difference in the level of fulfillment you have in that category, you actually now have to do something, right?
You have to take action, but at least you know now something that is clearer to you on what aligned action could look and feel like. So that is my tool method and tip for you today in today's episode to help you stay aligned in doing what you love every day and figuring out how to create that badass life and or business supplies to all of it. So definitely save this episode and use it again when you want to do an assessment. I recommend you check in on this about every every four weeks is probably a good cadence.
You could do it every two weeks. If you like, it depends on how aggressive you are going after a specific goal. But this is a really great way to check in and get clearer and make sure that your actions are aligned. And the reason why I would say two to four weeks in between doing this is because it helps you actually get traction on what you state you will take action against in order to lift up your level of fulfillment and feel really good about how your life and business is shaping up.
So again, I really appreciate all your comments, your post, your questions. I want to hear more from you. If you want to snap a picture of this, you know, grid that you drew and what you got as a takeaway of action to do, you know, I'm here to support you. Go ahead and post it and tag me at Carinzy Welsh on Insta or on LinkedIn.
And I will celebrate and support you on your journey because you know that's what I'm all about. So thanks for joining me today and I cannot wait to see you on the next episode. Wasn't that such a great episode? I know you got amazing takeaways from that.
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