Mexican Road Trips & Goals
Posted on January 22, 2021 by Vanessa Plimley, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Pivotal life lessons from the road.
Driving 1000 miles of Mexican coastline surfing and looking for land was a pretty cool memory of why I really began goal setting.
My husband had joined a real estate network that was a mentoring group on how to buy and manage rental properties. When he originally got into it, I was uninterested, and thought “Your thing not mine.” So he quietly went to meetings once a month. He went to a weekend seminar where you learn all the basics and as he jokingly said to “Drink their “Kool-aid.” He bought his first property and I had no idea where it was.
During one of our trips south we found ourselves driving long and dusty miles. With content, surfed-out bodies, he would put in CD’s that were a recording of the weekend seminar he had originally taken. Some of it was boring, other subjects got my attention so much that I had to pause and talk about it.
By the time we returned to Canada I joined the real estate group and we bought two more properties.
One of the best practices I got out of it was you had to write down what you needed for the month, what you wanted to accomplish in a doable and attainable list. Then you had an accountability partner that would check-in and keep you on track.
My husband and I began to use the same practice in our marriage. We would have awesome hot tub meetings, drinking wine, and ask each other “What do you need this month?” It might be simple things like needing a night out with the girls or to work more hours on a writing project. It might be a boys’ trip or to finish repairs on a property.
The lesson was this. We became very, very productive at attaining our goals. This grew and grew, and we are currently living a crazy life that we could have never dreamed up. It has morphed from the original vision and always is evolving, but we keep our fingers on the pulse of our lives and it works.
Of course goal setting is a huge part of the coaching I do in my career now. How do you know what to do, if you don’t know what you want?
Clarify what it is and how you might get there. Maybe you know exactly what you want but get stuck in the overwhelming list of things to do. A coach can create a space for you to figure out your priorities, hone in on the exact path, and keep you accountable for small actions; the baby steps that move you forward every single day.
Maybe a coach is not right for you, and that’s ok, but I beg you to be relentless in creating what you want. Some people get caught on the treadmill of reacting to life coming their way, rather than purposefully and methodically designing it.
Whatever the dream is, it’s desperately calling you to live it!
Masked hugs and elbow bumps, Vanessa
