2018 is here, and we are well past the post-vacation comatose. The College Football National Championship has already played and we’re into the NFL Playoffs. The American tradition of the post-season football is full steam ahead.
Another American tradition is also in play. Instead of our past-time, it is our business ritual to audit 2017’s financials and push forward our 2018 financial projections.
On the other end of the spectrum, people have made their New Years’ Resolutions and many have already waved them goodbye. The gyms are clearing up, and we’re getting back to normal.
What are all these rituals for? How did we as society normalize these occurrences? Where did they come from? Well they happened, someone thought them up and efforts were taken to make it so…they were manifested.
Manifestation: an event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, especially a theory or an abstract idea.
How do we go from a theory to reality? We manifest it through the combination of the esoteric mystical realm and the logic process driven realm. Hold your Harry Potter references for a second and stick with me here.
It starts with the painted picture, a technique used by individuals and companies to describe in detail what the life and reality they want to live in is like. Let me walk you through it. You write as though you are describing your life three years from now.
What are you doing? What is your day like? What is your family life like? Where are you living?
Provide as much detail as possible and write as though it’s happening now, with specific details of the sights, sounds, smells. How much money do you make? Where do you work? Keep going, keep writing as though it were a journal entry or an article in a paper. Vivid details, specific, clear. We tend to overestimate what we can achieve in one year but underestimate what we can in three, so keep writing until it sounds absurd and then keep going! That’s when the magic happens!
Use your imagination of your perfect life three years from now. Ground it a bit, but not too much. Focus on what YOU specifically are doing. Don’t write about how society has evolved, and don’t write about a world removed from the clear defined laws of science. Focus on what YOU are doing…hone in on the things that matter to YOU. The clearer you paint the picture the better.
Finished? Try writing just a bit more. Okay, pens down.
Awesome! You just created your future.
No seriously, here’s how…
When it comes to business, the most challenging thing to do is understand where your company is headed and how you’re going to get there. All too often, employees keep their true wishes and desires a secret, hidden from management, as though it were a great hide and seek game. This renders abrupt 2-week-notices and employee turnover a major challenge, along with the unnecessary burden of who to promote and what direction should we expand to.
By understanding all the employees’ painted pictures, leadership can understand where people want to go. Where they want to live. What they are doing. How much they are making. Everyone’s authentic desires and intentions are established. When you have all that, you can actually make them a reality…
For once you’ve compiled all the employees painted picture, pieces of the company’s picture comes to light. Where offices are going to be created, what new business product and services there will be, who will be promoted to greater roles, different departments, and the like.
We know where everyone wants to go, it’s the leadership’s job of helping them get there!
First, create the financial projections needed to hit the collective picture that was painted. How much will it cost to open up this new location? How much does this new product line need to make? How do we justify paying employees that much? Then you can back into the revenue needed to generate from the various product lines both current and to be created (many of which can be supported and identified in the painted pictures). From there, you can understand the metrics linked to get those projected revenue marks and tie that to metric based compensation.
Then, one must map out the stages and cycles of the business, which has historically been broken into 52 day periods based on the creation date of the company. There are specific things to do and certain things to avoid while in specific periods of the cycle. This crafts the general strategy for when to do certain initiatives that the employees identified as wanting to be done. For example, don’t pursue new products during this 52 day period, contracts with government and military are good during this 52 day period.
Next, you look at your company’s employees Human Design and understand the true skill sets and paths that each person is taking and the composite of the teams needed to execute on these projects. You can then look at your existing talent pool and select who to put on those projects. You already know who wants to do it, who wants to be promoted, and what people see themselves doing in three years from now, so you can see what skills they need to develop, what career trajectory they are looking for. You can fill in the gaps with targeted hiring for the specific skill sets needed to round out the team.
Next, with the right team assembled, you can map out the astrology paths each person will be taking that year to understand when they will be at their prime, what things they are overcoming, and understanding the best time to really push for performance and the other times that they will need a little bit of love and time to step away to deal with their own growth and issues. This you can tie the ebbs and flows directly to the metric goals needed for the month. Create a base-level goal and then adjust upwards or downwards based on how their productivity will be.
This puts the right people on the right teams with the right metrics pursuing the right projects to hit the right financials for a company where everyone knows where everyone wants to go…
This is literally the painted picture they co-created…which is the way to manifest on a company level.
Through the combination of the financial projections broken down to operational metrics and adjusted based on the stage of the company’s year paired with teams comprised of perfectly matched human design individuals for the task that take into account the cosmic alignment of the planets, you have manifested and made real what the painted picture is.
Reread that…through financial projections, operational metrics, business life cycles, human design, and astrology…you manifest on a business level and everyone is aligned with this…now that’s magic.
Time to pull out that wand and start painting.