Today, I was listening to a call with the shift-it coach, Christina Merkley. The call was organised by Tina Forsyth and part of the training for the International Association of Online Business Managers (www.obmconnect.com).

Tina, trainer of the Certified Online Business Management program and co-founder of the International Association of Online Business Managers, asked Christina to help the newest graduates of the OBM training with their strategic planning process. Where to from here?

Christina is a strategic planning and graphic coach and helps business owners identify their strategic direction by taking stock of their lives and drawing up their future goals and vision. She uses interactive maps which help the business owner get creative. These maps can easily remove blocks that often come into play when you are just thinking about your goals and vision in your head without committing to writing it down. We as entrepreneurs often get overwhelmed and stuck while planning for our future direction and drawing/writing it down helps us to create a new vision.

 At first it can be a bit difficult to identify positive goals rather than taking about “what I don’t want in life”.

Christina guided us into turning the negative thoughts into positive goals. Changing the wording of our goals into a positive statement. Eg. “I don’t want difficult clients” gets reframed into “I work with friendly, enthusiastic clients” instead.

The positive statement is so much more powerful and will help attracting the positive things into your life and business.

Christina has a fantastic freebie report on her website: http:www.shift-it-coach.com. It’s called “Focus on me” and it includes several maps to fill out yourself with excellent instructions to guide you through the process. A great tool, which is an ideal follow on to my 25 Questions about your Dream Business. 

In May I actually downloaded Christina’s report and worked through the maps. I kept the maps for reference and today I looked at them again. What a difference! One of the maps showed “my reality” in May and one showed my desired outcome back then. Amazingly, many of the things and goals I mentioned have come true!

I will definitely work on a new map and see how much more it will transform my business and my personal life.

Go and check out Christina’s website: http:www.shift-it-coach.com