My third goal is my business goal. What to do with jalle and it largest client. When I started the year, I saw separate streams of work. I consulted with one; trained with the other. I looked forward to building a consulting approach that could eventually be separated from my training.
The goal: "streamline" the offer of my business and "do what I know is right" with my time for my largest client. I debated if these ideas represented two goals. But how can you really have two big equal goals for one business? Intuitively and strategically, I find two entirely separate goals inelegant. They should work together.
Then just lately over the weekend, I came to a surprise realization.
Now that I see how it works with a team, it's the consulting model that I find most effective and rewarding. When you see a project through with a client and it works, it's satisfying to know you made at least a little difference. This time last year, I believed the opposite. That a consulting model was too energy-consuming somehow for little real influence on outcomes.
Sure we cannot change the big wheels of corporate politics, but we can impact a few people positively - an increasing number of people over time. That's where they are working. How they earn their livings. Where they spend a lot of their time.
I have to admit it remains interesting to me. A challenge. A space for creativity in communication.
Let's see how I define "streamline" by year-end. The exact path remains to be cleared.
So why do you suppose my symbol of this goal is a river (other than the fact that I've always loved rivers)?
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