Hi Friend
What.A.Week! We had our second annual Hawks Agency retreat. We were planning on going back to the same house we used last year, but a pipe broke and flooded the place, so we rented a 5-bedroom Airbnb in Oklahoma City. It was perfect! I love Sarah, Monica and John. We have a really special team.
Besides us, my business coach Mark LeBlanc drove down from Minneapolis to join in the fun. He also loves our team and wanted to be a part of what we were doing. I don’t know if you have a coach, but mine is better. He’s a Hall of Fame speaker who has been in the business for 40 years. His desire to invest in us is humbling.
On Day One we gathered at 9a and I didn’t go to bed til 11:40p. It was a FULL Day! I have a cool new wooden-covered journal that I took notes in. Last night I enjoyed a long hot peppermint bath and reviewed everything I had jotted down. It’s a lot, but also it is focused.
We started the retreat with each of us offering one personal goal and one professional goal we wanted to accomplish in 2024. Mark does a 10-in-10 list. 10 life accomplishments in the next 10 years. He calls it his lighthouse. It’s a rolling 10 years, so once you accomplish one thing, you add another so there is always 10 on the list. It keeps our motivation before us.
COMMITMENT vs. RESOLVE
Mark walked the Camino trail in Spain three times. On his first trip he learned the difference between commitment and resolve. Have you ever known someone who couldn’t keep their commitments? Say they’ll dosomething but don’t. Shows up late. Regularly has an excuse. Swears they’re committed, but their actions say otherwise. Are you such a person?
Resolve is commitment on steroids. It’s the extreme Always/Never disposition. It’s so deeply embedded in our souls there’s just no other option. We were urged to define our most important daily activities and be resolved. No matter what, no matter what, no matter what… we will do these things! What have you resolved to do or be?
TRUTH
I went through a season in my life where the stories I told myself were lies. Unfortunately, I believed them, which enabled me to lie to others. I have since resolved to live in truth. Candid, transparent, hard, direct,
uncomfortable, accountable, embarrassing truth. If we interact, you can count on me to be honest with you.
I’m grateful I’ve resolved this. It’s altered me. I don’t trust all the stories in my head so I’m willing to share them all with the people I do trust. That protects my resolve. We need more than our own willpower to retain resolve. Systems, determined actions, momentum, purposed partnership, humility and transparency are essential.
Where do you need to move from commitment to resolve?
Instigating Ideas…
1. Write down what’s most important for you to accomplish this year.
2. Tell someone where you have resolve.
3. Recognize and praise the resolve in someone else.
4. Go on a retreat.
A lot of our energy was spent on digging deep into our own messages that we are sharing with the world. Refining and extracting the deeper root truths so we can serve humanity best, is a priority. Fighting over words, articulation and language feels important. Words are the containers of truth that we are delivering, so it matters that we get them right.
JOY
Being with the team, in a saturated way, with so much food, conversation, laughter and purpose fills me with joy. The world could crumble around me,and I’d still be sustained and buoyed because of these fine humans with whom I share a path towards destiny. It’s settling and rejuvenating.
I hope you nurture life-giving relationships and are resolved in the important matters in your life. Get those two things right and I suspect the journey will be satisfying. Enjoy this week!