Adam Markel walks through four steps to build a pivot vision: stop worrying about how you'll do it, get clear on what you don't want, find your deepest commitments through quiet reflection, and adopt a beginner's mind to unlock creativity. Action doesn't require perfection.
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Hey, everybody. Hope you're having a beautiful day. Not sure what you're up to. I'm just hanging out here and about ready to see. Experience a beautiful sunset. I want to wish you. Wish you a beautiful evening. Might be late evening for some of you, might be early morning, wherever I'm finding you. And you know what? I just wanted to spend a little time together. And it was funny because I thought to myself, geez, you know, I didn't shave. I've kind of. I've had a very active day creatively. A lot of writing, bunch of meetings, and, you know, I'm just like in. In sweatpants and. And. And a ratty T shirt and whatnot. And I thought to myself, man, how. How interesting is that, right? I'm thinking to myself, and. And this is. This is the stuff I work on all the time. This is what fascinates me and what I actually really love to help other people to. To work through. And here it showed up for. You know what? I'll wait till tomorrow. You know, I just. Or I have to go upstairs and shave. You know, it's like we're always sort of waiting for a better time, for a more perfect time than right now, because we tell ourselves, you know, I gotta. Gotta have our lip gloss on. I gotta go get mine or my eyeliner, or I gotta go get my hair cut, or I gotta shave or I gotta wear better clothes. And that's just a story. I mean, that's the bottom line. It's just a story. And I caught myself having that conversation in my head. So my dirty little secret is that that's my story too. And I have to watch myself, have to be so vigilant when it takes me out, when it has me playing small. So that just said to me, boom, done, push the button, get on, and do what you really want to do, which was to spend time with all of you. So that's what. I'm more committed to, spending time with you than I am to looking good. So, you know, it is what it is. Now, that said, I wanted to point that out, and I also wanted to share something else with you, which are four baby steps to creating your pivot vision. Four steps to creating your pivot vision. So the first one is this. Let go. And by the way, just. Just so you. We're all clear, these are things I'm working on now in my own. In my life and my, you know, things going on with me right now. I'm right in the middle of the same juiciness the Same juicy stuff that this book Pivot is about is my own experience of living in this moment, which is just so beautiful and so rich. So what a blessing for me to be re experiencing this stuff and sharing it with all of you. So the first thing is to let go of how. All right, there's a beautiful. I have a friend, his name is Mike Dooley, and we're part of the Transformational Leadership Council. I'm actually going to see him next week in Mexico at one of our one of our mastermind retreats. But he's famous for saying that the how the how you do things, he calls them the dreaded how. So my advice is that you let go of how for now. All right, let's all. I love the way it rhymes. It alliterates let go of how for now. That's 1, 2. Identify what you don't want. Another dear friend and somebody that has done some beautiful work in the world is a woman by the name of Monique McDonald. And she does does something where she helps people to discover their sacred gifts. And I remember when Randy, my wife Randy, took the training with her some years ago and became certified as an instructor and a coach in the sacred gifts work that she said to me as she was facilitating the process with me, she said, you know, it's just as important as knowing what your sacred gifts are. It's as important, if not more important, to know what your sacred gifts are, not to know what aren't your gifts. And so my advice to you is that you identify what you don't want. So the first step was to let go of how for now. The second step is to identify what you don't don't want. And the third step is to find your deepest commitments, to search inside. And for me, I do some of my best thinking as I'm walking on the beach or walking the dogs or we're sitting out at sunset just someplace quiet. I started a new ritual this morning that I'm getting up an hour earlier, so an hour before Randy's even getting up to kind of scratch the kids back and get them up for school. So it's sort of in that 5am area. And that's a brand new ritual for me. And it's a great time for me to be alone and to be finding more of my own quiet voice before the day gets going. So searching for your deepest commitments is something that I recommend that you take some time to do, but that you do it in a quiet space. So again, to review, these are the four steps to Creating your pivot, vision. And they're basic baby steps. Let go of how for now, like my friend Mike Dooley would say, identify what it is that you don't want. So what you don't want is just as powerful, knowing what you don't want, the boundaries in your life just as important as knowing what you do want. Number three, find your deepest commitments. So search your heart. Search in that quiet place inside of you, your soul, for what it is that you truly are committed to. Again, to recommend someone else who I love and adore is Greg and Tamara Montana. They do heart, virtues, work, and again, that's discovering those deep commitments. And number four, access your beginner's mind. And I think this is if I was going to sort of bet or not bet, but more or less indicate what I think is the unsung hero or the long shot. In these four, it would be this one to access your beginner's mind. Because we don't even realize how as we grow into maturity and we do something, sometimes we're in a profession for a long time, we do things, we start to think of ourselves as a very competent person. We develop our confidence. And there's nothing wrong with that, except that it gets us thinking that we know something. It gets us thinking and really believing that we know that. And those words I know that are very dangerous because they sort of shut down your creativity. They shut down that part of you that is humble, that is a beginner, that is an apprentice. And so to be in the apprentice mind is so valuable because it opens up avenues of creativity. And so for me, when I want to be in my apprentice mind, I just hang around with kids, even if I have to just sort of be in the vicinity of kids. You know, on our block, we've got kids that are playing and they're outside doing stuff. And I just to be around the energy of. Of people playing, of children playing puts me in that apprentice state of mind, that beginner mindset. So that's it. Four steps today to creating a vision for your pivot. And it doesn't have to be perfect. You don't have to be perfect, you don't have to look perfect. You don't have to be perfectly, you know, ready. The time is always now, and this is. This is the moment. So I blessed that I get to be in this moment with you right now. And I think the sun is just about ready to go down, so we can sort of get to see it together and give you a little view of what I'm looking at. Little Buddha, little water, bit of peace. See all those hearts, all those. Those lovely signals of your love. And that goes right here. Thank you. Have a beautiful rest of your evening, wherever you are. And remember, it's just a step away. Everything we want is just one step in the direction of what we want at any moment in time. And it doesn't have to be perfect. You don't have to be perfect. I love you all. Ciao for now. Have fun on your pivot. M. Bye. Bye, everybody. Sunset.
