Setting bold innovative goals can be a challenge when you have experience in an arena, or when it has never existed before. In this episode you get to jump the belief chasm, accessing the seemingly fantastical, through the power of storytelling. This will enable you to give yourself permission to both create innovative bold goals for your organization and then activating them into reality.

In this episode we unpack why creating bold innovative goals can be challenging. How to overcome the challenge and then from that space harness what you have created into an action plan.

Creating anything new requires a suspension of current reality. Our inner critic is there to protect us in these situations from looking like a fool at work, to share with us what is currently happening in the market place, what has happened before based on experience. 

It’s important to give ourselves permission to create the new and bold otherwise we will be duplicating everything that has preceded. Innovation requires us to live on the fringes. 

In order to do that we need to tap into our child like mindset which is full of curiosity and wonder, uninhibited by reality and gently ask our inner critic to take a seat. 

The challenge is that when we look to set goals, our mind is great at sharing with us all the obstacles that we can ensue. 

But wait there is salvation. If we step into the future and look back telling the stories of all the incredible things that have passed, our mind also accepts it as true. It works in our favor to make it all a reality. 

This tool, is a great short cut to access the met

While the inner critic does that, we cue the Kyle Cease technique for creating goals: 

Step 1: The Three Month Share 

Partner up with someone. Choose who will be person A and person B. 

Person A look at Person B, and say: “You never guess what has happened since we last spoke three months ago. Since three months ago so much has happened. Let me tell you.” Then you will proceed to share with them all the fabulous things that have happened in the last three months. 

Person B your role is to nod, smile and look very positive. Nothing more. Nothing less. Do not ask them about feasibility, reality, budgets. 

Do this for five minutes and then switch roles. 

Step 2: The Six Month Share 

Then do this for 6 months. And switch roles.

Step 3: The One Year Share 

Then do it for 1 year. And then switch roles.

Step 4: The Super Charge Zone 

After this Person B, your role is to take the strands of what has been shared with you by person A and super charge their story. For example, if they talk about wanting to be a thought leader in their field, you might say, well I hear that Forbes and Fast Company are knocking on your door. Or that Oprah has invited you for dinner yet again. 

Super Charge for five minutes and then switch roles.  

Step 5: The Action Plan 

Based on this new story that you get to tell, ask yourself: “what are the three steps that I need to take immediately to lean into this reality?” This is your activation moment for action planning. 

This process is applicable for all aspects of your life including your team and your organization to get them set for creating vision for a project and the future. 

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