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Partnering for Performance.
Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Renee Safrata from Reneevations. Renee is an amazing mentor dedicated to helping business leaders increase employee engagement, team alignment and strategic results via invaluable tools, methodologies as well as Premium e-Learning Packages.
Renee shares with us some of her biggest pivotal shifts towards brand clarity and momentum as a result of working with LeapZone on a strategic and experiential branding level.
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LeapZone would like to hear about your own journey to success. Share with us your challenges, lessons learned and pivotal shifts made along your way to success, or let us know about an entrepreneur that you admire and why for a possible highlight on LeapTalk™.
Let me start by sharing our core values with you to set the stage. At LeapZone we stand for: Guts, Spark, Digging Deeper, Keeping it Simple and Freedom to Excel. Our entire business model and lifestyle are guided by these 5 commandments.
Well…so I thought. But here is the brutal truth. I woke up one morning a few weeks ago feeling tired, frustrated, stressed (actually borderline angry), overwhelmed, and feeling mentally and physically heavy. I had not felt that way in a very, very long time. Maybe some of you know the feeling…
I could go on and give you a thousand reasons why I felt that way like, “September was an extraordinarily busy month and I stretched myself thin to be accommodating”; or “I decided to play computer techie and add a few major technical elements to the mix ’cause I’m obviously sadistic”; or the kicker “I started a 5-day cleanse to reset my metabolism as well as a 30-day yoga challenge because that last hour in my day I could maybe have spared just had to be filled”…blah, blah, blah…you get the point right?
Was September difficult? Yes, it sure was. Was it also the greatest catalyst for me to realize that it is NOT AT ALL how I want to feel in my business or my life? You bet.
What happened next took a lot of guts and involved a lot of tears (Kleenex sure made a huge profit that week!). Margarita and I took the necessary time (with our coach) to completely re-assess and re-evaluate it all, and zap ourselves with a jolt of perspective. We totally hit the RESET button and realized that although September was the last drop that spilled the milk, the real “spark killer” was all the little, cumulative, non-necessary, non-profitable To Dos (admin or otherwise) that we thought were important.
So, we decided to get rid of a huge chunk of “noise”, re-connected with our ideal work schedule and totally simplified our business model to suit the lifestyle we really want. After all, if we are to choose to play the game of business, might as well play it our way right?
Here is the thing. The gem in all of this is that I was out of balance with the majority of my core values. Keeping it Simple was getting overcrowded with a whole bunch of ToDos – simple mind you – but To Dos nonetheless that were contributing to the noise. Freedom to Excel was getting buried under a heavily loaded schedule…therefore leaving me feeling like I had no time and energy left to do what I do best: Digging Deeper.
Today, I feel a lot lighter despite the work ahead that is necessary to implement all our changes…because I know that it will be much, much better on the other side.
What do you need to “stop” or “reset” in your life and in your business to increase your level of freedom and fulfillment?
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Carmick Interiors from the Ground Up!
Today, I am speaking with Mickael Plourde from Carmick Interiors. Carmick Interiors is a small and extremely talented Vancouver-based TurnKey™ Interior Design Firm that has a unique ability and process to transform houses into sanctuary homes.
Mickael shares with us some of his biggest pivotal shifts and breakthroughs that helped him gain his spark back, and go from “slave” to “leader” of his own business as a result of LeapZone’s One Year Business Performance Catalyst Program The Jump™.
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LeapZone would like to hear about your own journey to success. Share with us your challenges, lessons learned and pivotal shifts made along your way to success, or let us know about an entrepreneur that you admire and why for a possible highlight on LeapTalk™.
Even though most of us no longer attend school full time, when September or January roles around, we still can’t help but think it is the beginning of a new year. A new year means new beginnings to new commitments, new plans to achieve what you want by this time next year; a new year simply holds hope. My challenge to you this year is to think about how you are showing up in this world…today. Are you showing the world the best of you? At LeapZone, we have a name for people who bring their best, people who are:
ambitious: have a deep desire to achieve more.
committed: are willing to take consistent action to achieve goals.
ready for change: are open to taking “calculated risks” to move forward.
a dreamer: have ambitious goals and need support getting there sooner.
driven: have the drive, desire and energy to make it happen.
disciplined: have the ability to implement quickly and remain consistent.
accountable: do what they say they will do.
We call these people “leapers”; people who are as committed to themselves as to where they are going. We are proud to say our clients are definitely among these people. We have added two client success stories to our website that we want to share with you. Please take a minute to learn about the challenges they approached us with, the process we used to help them through their respective challenges, and the results achieved. Where available, click the play button to listen to a personal audio testimonial from our client and hear for yourself what they think!
RENEEVATIONS SUCCESS STORY
INSITE STRATEGIES SUCCESS STORY
As we head into 2009 we are highlighting business and personal success stories to share on our blog through our LeapTalk™ Success Series. If you have a story about your business, career, position, or personal development, we want to hear from you. Contact us with your challenges, lessons learned and pivotal shifts made along your way to success, or let us know about an entrepreneur that you admire and why for a possible highlight on LeapTalk™.
If you have a few minutes, feel free to listen to our latest LeapTalk™ Success Story podcast right now:
LEAPTALK™ SUCCESS SERIES:_LISE ON LIFE
Lise on Life is a small Vancouver-based holistic nutrition and wellness centre that supports and helps exhausted and aching women.
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