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| Coch Anna McCoy |
Welcome! To a brand new week, brand new month and
brand new day! For my Coach and Sista
Anna McCoy, it is a brand new year and it is an honour to be in her life on
this great day. Happy Birthday Coach!
On
today’s post, I want to look at the journey to significance. The reason why we keep pressing into the
fullness of our dreams is because we are on a journey to significance. There is
a tug at our hearts to be more than we are; a pull at us to not just be the
best but to also be people whose lives will impact and inspire others to begin
their own journey into significance.
However, not all of us who start on this journey find people to travel
with all the time.
For
reasons ranging from a lack of integrity to a lack of authenticity to even an
inability to sell the vision effectively for others to buy in, a lot of us never
get to arrive at the place of significance that was the dream when we set
out. This place is the place of LEGACY
where our work lives beyond us in other people’s lives and we find a deep
satisfaction for our labour.
If
the journey to significance is what we crave, shouldn’t we find out how to get
there? I know someone whose journey has
inspired my life and that of hundreds of women and I will like to draw my
highlights today from her life. In a
manner, these are the things I see in the life of my Coach Anna McCoy on her
journey to significance.
1.
Don’t come as a rocket scientist. The quality I cherish most in Coach Anna and
you should emulate, is the ability to recognise that on the journey to
significance you will meet others who have the answer to some piece of the
puzzle. Others need to recognise that
even though it is your dream they are working with you, they have contributions
to make and that you are open to those contributions as well as value them. Coach is always willing to listen to what you
are thinking and that makes it pretty easy to work with her.
2.
Another point to consider is that
there must be value you are creating. In
a past post I had mentioned going organic which, basically, is a call to build
our journey to significance around the stuff we are good at. However, what really is the use of what you
are good at to me, except it adds value to my life? What this means is that my journey to
significance cannot be all about me.
Someone else must be benefitting from the things I do. Once someone gets
value out of your journey, then you are not far from significance. You don’t spend twenty minutes with Coach
Anna and not receive value for your own journey.
3.
Consider this too: Does your journey
leave an impression? The journey to
significance as I have learnt from Coach Anna is beyond what we say and even
the things we do, it extends to the life span of the impact that we make. To leave a legacy is as easy as the lasting
impression you create. I am yet to find
someone who spends time with Coach who doesn’t notice that she is the real
deal! Her commitment to developing
herself shows in the way she relates to those she comes in contact with and she
is never one to dabble into idle talk.
4.
How intentional are you? One of the very first things I noticed about
Coach Anna is her ability to set goals and intentionally work towards achieving
them. What I learnt fast with her is that
except she is able to identify the value that can come out of whatever is being
suggested, she doesn’t involve herself.
This for me means that I get to spend energy on the things that matter
and move the journey forward rather than give my energy to something that is
headed nowhere.
5.
My Coach truly LOVES those she is
called to serve. The journey to
significance is about serving others, impact and value is about affecting other
lives… and yes I have seen love displayed so selflessly and extravagantly that
I am on a journey to learn how to love for real.
If
I had space I can go on for another three pages or more, but I will stop here,
asking you to use these lessons from the life of Anna McCoy map out strategies
for living your own journey to significance.
I will not be fair to my Coach if I don’t let her know today that
because of her journey, my own journey has become more significant than when I
started.
Happy
Birthday Coach, thanks for pulling me in the right direction, thanks for
undertaking your journey and by so doing showing how to travel this road. One thing is clear to me and it is that no
matter what happens; we will make it together to destiny, we will make it
NeverTheLess.
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Sistar
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