Revealing Your Focus
Ironically, it’s likely you already have some sense of your focus…but it is such a part of you that you don’t see it as a separate thing.
It’s just you.
It is what you do, naturally and effortlessly.
It’s what you love to do.
It’s what brings you alive.
And it’s what reflects your unique talents and experience.
But you can't see this part of yourself.
You are too close to what you do naturally.
The roots of your work run so deep within you, it’s difficult for you to find them unaided.
I have been helping my clients gain clarity about their new career or business focus for several decades. One of the most important realizations I’ve had is this:
Gaining Clarity isn’t about
Making a Decision between this or that.
Discovering Clarity is about Weaving together
what is Important and Precious to you.
This process of Discovery isn’t about
Leaving a Part of Yourself behind.
It’s About Bringing ALL of
Who You Are into Your Vision
with a sense of expansion,
hope, and Excitement.
By working with a broad variety of clients over the years, I’ve created a series of prompts to help you gather a number of clues that weave together to show you the focus of your new work. Whether you are trying to:
Find Your Career Focus
Answers this question: What career choice aligns with my interests, skills, and passions?Find Your Business Focus
Answers this question: What business focus will be the most interesting, fulfilling, and effective way for me to use my training?Discover the Core Focus of Your New Body of Work
Answers this question: What’s the best way for me to use my expertise, wisdom, and experience to support my clients in reaching their goals?
Although the details of each program are unique, the general formats of these programs are the same.
The clues you collect will guide us to a constellation of themes and ideas that align with your deep nature, your interests, your experience, and your desires for your work.
Here’s How these Three Programs Work
As soon as you register, you’ll get access to a series of self-reflective assignments that each take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
In the 30 years of doing this work, I've found that writing your responses helps you deepen your understanding of yourself and surface themes that have already been playing out in your life and work.
As I read your responses I'll offer suggestions, ask additional questions, and offer encouragement as I begin to deepen what I know about you and your vision of your new work. Think of this as an ongoing conversation that brings us both in touch with insights, clarity, and a host of clues about your future work.
Week 1: Laying the Groundwork - This is all about discovering what you DO know about yourself and your new focus. Each assignment during the week taps into a different component of this question.
Week 2: Gathering Clues - Here you focus on gathering clues about the skills, processes, and interests that engage you most. Each assignment leads you down a different path to gather these clues. You have no decisions to make, just open-hearted exploration to uncover the gems you bring to your work. By the end of the week you have a list of 40-50 clues that best reflect the essence of what you love to do.
Week 3: Brainstorming New Ideas - Using a right-brained brainstorming technique and your list of clues, you generate up to 40 creative ideas about your new work. This fun, lighthearted popcorn-style brainstorming system helps you generate a variety of interesting ideas quickly and easily.
Week 4: Synthesizing Your Ideas - You'll begin the week answering two more written assignments to prepare for our synthesizing conversation.
A Note about Pacing Yourself: If you respond to one assignment each weekday, you'll complete the series of assignments in just over three weeks. If you work on three assignments a week, you'll finish in just over five weeks. The pace is up to you.
After you complete the reflective assignments we'll have a 90-minute synthesizing session to review the clues you've gathered. Then we'll explore different ways to weave your themes together to find the combinations that are most promising to you.
We'll complete this program with a 45-minute check-in call the following week to review the refinements you've made after our synthesizing session and to talk about your next steps.
In summary, these programs include:
A series of reflective assignments you'll respond to via email. These questions give you new insights and help me get to know your deep nature, your interests, and the core focus of your new work.
My encouragement, additional clarifying questions, and guidance in response to your emailed responses.
One 90-minute one-on-one synthesizing session to help you take your insights deeper and weave your ideas in new ways to reveal the most promising themes of your new career or business.
If desired, one 30-minute check-in call the following week to review the refinements you've made after our synthesizing conversation and to talk about your next steps.
Investment of $497.00. Payment options available.
Interested? Let's Verify Which Program
is a Good Fit for You and Your Needs
In our initial phone conversation you'll share where you are in your quest for clarity, and I will give you a sense of my background. Then we'll talk in more depth to verify which program is a good fit for you. Throughout the conversation we'll have the opportunity to see how we connect.
To get started, complete the form below to request the pre-conversation questionnaire to tell me about yourself, your work, and your business. As soon as I receive your request, I’ll send you an email with a link to the questionnaire. At the end of the questionnaire you’ll find a link to my online calendar to set up our conversation.
My Promise To You
I want you to succeed! If one of the Clarity programs is not a good fit for you, I’ll share other services that would be a better fit or introduce you to a colleague who may be able to support you.
After our conversation you'll have the time you need to make the right decision for you. I do not use pressure tactics; that kind of an environment is not helpful to either one of us.
If you have questions after we've spoken, I'm happy to have an email exchange or another phone conversation to get you the information you need to make a good decision for yourself and your business.