What Happens When You Decide to be Impactful

In my blog post from last week, I briefly discussed how I became successful before discovering that I wasn’t having a big enough influence. In 2014, I plan to spend a lot of time thinking about the word “impact.” I am utterly committed to influencing and motivating others around me. In order for you to be prepared when you decide to become more impactful, I want to briefly discuss some of the ideas and challenges that have come up.

Here are a few things that happened after I made the decision to be impactful:
• The first thing I realized is that being impactful does not mean to forget about success. It means to let impact be what constitutes success.
 Impact cannot be quantified the way success can. I track and quantify everything because I love numbers, but impact cannot be quantified. The legacy you leave behind is your impact. You give someone the ethereal and immeasurable aspects of oneself. Unlike many of the quantifiable items that success leaves behind, impact is permanent and does not diminish over time.
• Impact has everything to do with your purpose and being clearly defined as an entrepreneur and human. Impact means passionately putting those things into action.
• Success has been my own worst enemy. Success for me was all about what I could do, and my abilities. I know what I can do and what it takes to climb that next mountain. When it came to leading and inspiring others that is where my faith in powers greater than my own came into the picture.
• It would be easy to keep relying on myself and being more successful, but consciously choosing to take on the greater challenge of being impactful and leaving an intentional legacy is the challenge and the fight to show up to everyday.

There are forces, people, and energies in the world who oppose your decision to become more influential. For me, intriguing things started happening once I made the decision to “Do My Be” and declare this to the world and those around me. To understand the “Do My Be” remark, watch the video that is posted above.

Here are some of the things that started happening:
• Many obstacles, challenges, doubts and roadblocks were placed right in front of me to prevent me from being impactful. This tested how serious and willing I was to do so. Some of these challenges presented themselves as people, situations, problems and attacks on me from many angles.
• Many people that believed in me and what I was doing started to let themselves be known. I love this energy and support and found out who was really in my corner.
• Other people that I thought would be in my corner decided not to be anymore. This is okay with me.
• I have been the most uncomfortable that I have ever been in my life and I know I am growing tremendously from this.

I hope this post was inspiring for you! I am excited to hear about your journey of impact and what that means to you. Please give me some feedback, comments and input about this.

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