Launching 2024 With Intention
What’s Possible in 2024?
Being intentional is a purposeful deliberate choice by design. In 2024, what do you desire to create? What do you desire to build? What type of leader do you desire to grow into? Where are your goals taking you What was you biggest Win in 2023? How can your time be maximized for priorities? What is your sweet spot of expertise and talent?
“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.” ~ Booker T. Washington
In Gratitude
First, in gratitude, we look forward to an extraordinary new year with you and those precious moments of connection. We stand with you in a spirit of kindness, gratefulness and love to a year filled with joy, peace, wellness and abundance! You’re a gift to us and our family! Thank you for the contribution you made to us directly or indirectly. The ripple effect of growth continues through us all. May your new year be filled with new places, new faces, new graces, new spaces and new races. Whatever adversity you walked through or are walking through, it’s not your identity. Today is a new day, and we all get to begin again! Know you were born for greatness! You have purpose! You’re not a mistake and your life matters.
Power of Intention
Again, being intentional is a purposeful, deliberate choice by design. Peter Drucker said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” In the context of being intentional, here are some powerful keys to consider to grow your 2024 and expand your capacity.
“Professionals stick to the schedule, amateurs let life get in the way. Professionals know what is important to them and work towards it with purpose, amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life.”
~ James Clear
Professional versus Amateur’s Mindsets
There is a difference between the professional and the amateur athletes' thinking. It may seem subtle and insignificant, but over time, it’s the difference of winning big consistently or just getting by. Here are some new year approaches and principles to consider being intentional in 2024.
Principles to Empower Intention
1). Make a Committed Decision: Perfection will lie to you, saying you're not good enough. Untie the boat and navigate into deeper waters. One of my mentors would often ask, “how do you know you're committed, by results.” Example, if a person says, I will start at 7AM and are often late. The results would reveal that they are not really committed to being on time. Being intentional, you would arrive early to value the time commitment.
2). Keep Going Through Inconveniences: In other words, don’t stop when inconvenience shows up. Inconveniences can foster inner development to sacrifice, to adapt, adjust, pivot. They actually can be like that exercise machine in the gym. Success is rarely ever convenient or handed on a silver platter. No gold medalist or professional athlete sat on the sidelines of inconvenience. Inconveniences are like a runway to develop grit in the grind. My cousin was a deep sea fisherman. They fished in the harshest weather of snow, winds, rain with special safety harnesses to work and not be washed overboard. They came back with freezers packed. The cost required their commitment to overcome inconvenience.
3). Stay in Solution: My dad always taught me in the building industry, there is always a solution. He would say, you're getting paid to find the best solutions. As a person practices this type of thinking, you will notice more and more effective and efficient solutions are born. With a solution mindset, the brain will actually begin to think and search for solutions. Think of it like typing in the search bar on your computer. Many times through the power of asking other tradesmen, we began piecing together solutions that became treasures. Stay in solution, think, there is a way! Tap into the collective resources around you. Staying stuck is not an option while working on a high end renovation project. What could be possible with a team of solution finders? What if your only one solution away from great growth?
4). Discern the Chatter: There are fans in the stands who never played the game in your shoes but have all the answers…The heart ability to navigate chatter with great wisdom is being dialed in on your purpose with intention. Time wasters will often show up saying, why should you practice, workout, or study the game. Discern those shouts from the stands, your emotions, the critic, that fault finding noise. Like a sniper on a battlefield, how do you stay focused on a mission despite the peripheral concerns, chaos or fear? To overcome conformity, we must have a set of core values and principles that help guide choices. Process the chatter with core values and solid business principles to say flourishing. Ever since I started in business in 1987, there was always negative noise regarding the economy as interest rates were 18%. But a dream fueled my intention to just start. When you feel pressure on decisions, consider waiting three days. Walt Disney once said, “Observe the masses and do the opposite.” Many times the best words spoken
are none.
5). Priority Scheduling: Your purpose will help keep you focused on the main things. We may have heard, keep the main thing the main thing. What is your main thing? Your completed goals are mile markers of advancement. Take note of your weekly advancement. Your daily schedule at times may be routine or not feeling effective but keep showing up daily doing the basics. Your consistent intention will be a difference maker. Think of a professional football player: They have daily eating, workouts, stretching, teamwork strategy, and watch videos. They marinate in this as a lifestyle. Your Daily Disciplines: Ask, What’s Important Now? How can you be intentional with your daily, weekly and monthly habits. Consider a month in advance scheduling those growth pillars, then build your schedule around them. Again, being intentional is a purposeful, deliberate choice by design.
“Leadership is an action, not a position.” ~ Donald McGannon
Be intentional! You're worth it, take action today! I want to invite you to create your way to a better day. You got what it takes!
In honor and Gratitude,
Ed Garner