When I was in university I had a hobby. I wrote and directed plays. They were plays with music, solos, mime, dialog, dance, plots, and set changes.
I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. I knew one thing very strongly – I could see it in my head, in my mind’s eye.
When we performed I was amazed how I felt executing what I saw in my mind. It was thrilling! People asked, ‘Did you know it would be this amazing?’ Thepeople I worked with were a bright and incredible group of people who were talented and willing to try anything. So the answer was yes because I could see it before it was.
It wasn’t until many years later when I realized it is the same in business and in life.
Seeing your future self is vital to where you end up. I knew one day my opportunity would come and it would be in a boardroom. I started building the skills I would need, negotiation, presentation, strategy, business acumen, the suit I would wear. I even walked faster. I practiced them every chance I could get.
Then the day came, a boardroom with key people, and the chairman of company interviewing me.
I nailed it!
Then that boardroom became the place where I met people like Robert Irving, the CEO of J.D. Irving Limited, head over Cavendish companies, Midland trucking, Irving tissue, and a dozen other companies.
If you knew you would be in front of him in 10 ten years, what would you do to prepare? Email me and tell me.
Do the things you know you will need in your future job now. If not, by the time you get there, it will be too late.
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Carol Bartlett
