Creating Your Vision for 2019? Add THIS!

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This is a time when many of us are thinking about what we want our 2019 to look like.

We have visions about what we want to do and achieve, what changes we resolve to
make, and where and how we want to be spending our time. It’s a wonderful time of
opportunity!

Some of you may notice yourself saying things like: “THIS time I’m really going to do
it!” or “This year, I’m going to stick with it!”

For those of you who make vision boards, they are likely filled with items of wealth,
travel, experiences, friendships and abundance.

As we close out the year, I invite you to add an extra layer to your visioning –
something that can make a big difference in achieving what you want.

Complete these sentences for yourself:

• “In 2019, I want ___________, SO THAT…___________”
• “Making that happen is important to me because ___________”
• “It’s important to me NOW because ___________”
Then, I encourage you to imagine that you are looking back at 2019:
• “When I achieve what I want, what will that make possible?”
• “How will I feel?”

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Spend some time really thinking about the IMPACT of getting what you want.

As a bonus, challenge yourself to go even further, and set an intention to take charge
and create the causes and conditions needed for you to ensure you have that impact.

The final sentence of this exercise would read something like this:
• “Therefore, I am going to (only) choose the following thoughts, feelings, language,
and actions that will create the possibility for my impact to be achieved:”

The answers revealed through this “Impact Visioning” not only provide deeper insights
into your value and your purpose, but it will also motivate you (and enroll and engage
others in your vision!).

When we know that the things we want will also benefit others – or that people around
us are counting on us to have the impact we are meant to achieve, it raises the stakes,
and increases our chances of making it happen!

I’ve had the honor to work with so many wonderful organizations and individual leaders
as they build upon their success and seek to have the impact they are meant to
achieve… and wow – I’m inspired everyday by their commitment and courage to do what
they do.

Here’s just a few examples of their impact that I’m celebrating as I create my
own vision for 2019:
• A client opening up new career and life goals for youth, by providing first-time
immersive and interactive experiences in the Arts.
• Saving lives by creating new marketing campaigns that educate the public on the
importance of vaccines.
• Healing wounded, ill and injured active duty and veterans through therapeutic salsa
dance instruction.
• Raising curious, confident, compassionate children by being fully present in their
lives.
• Empowering low-income women artisans by facilitating cultural grounding, offering
both teaching and learning experiences, and revealing artistic skills and creativity.
• Bringing joy to audiences through artistic excellence and programming that invites
the public to be moved.
• Making big shifts and ripples of impact possible as mindful leaders, by choosing to
step into vulnerability, ask for help, buck trends, and test normal assumptions and
best practices.

What does your 2019 vision look like and what will occur when you achieve it? How can
I support you in making it come to life?

I invite you to share YOUR big goals with me. Often, the very act of sharing your goals
with someone who will hold the vision for you can be extremely empowering.

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Making Your 2019 Resolutions…Stick

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Have you ever wondered why it’s so common to set resolutions and intentions at the
start of a new year - and why they may not always stick?

The turning of the page to a new year (and time in general), is a purely human
construct that helps us measure things. It’s no different than using a tape measure to
get the dimensions of your living room.

Years are like inches, miles, kilometers and gallons. They are just units of measurement.

When we see the dawn of a “new year” as simply the changing of the label from this unit
of measurement to the next, it begs the question about why we make such a big deal
about the New Year’s holiday, and more importantly, how we can make the MOST of
the transition this year.

According to a University of Scranton study, 92% of all “New Year’s

resolutions” fail. There are many reasons for this, but I think the most
influential causes are twofold:

1. We tend to place too much significance around what we want to push and strive for
and achieve – in the future – internalizing the resolutions to mean that how we are
NOW is not good enough. Unfortunately, those feelings can sabotage our good
intentions.

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2. We tend to implement changes that focus on the (often drastic) new actions, rather
than the desired impact that will be achieved by setting a clear intention of WHY we
want to make these changes.

Therefore, to maximize our success, live in our vision and be in alignment and in
integrity with our purpose all year long, let’s use January as a time to set a clear
intention for how we want to BE and what the impact of that will be on those around us
in the year ahead… and shift this process to a regular practice.

I encourage you to set aside time over the next few days to give yourself this gift of
clarifying your WHY around any new intentions or goals for the new year.

What will happen when you achieve them? Why does that matter? To whom? What will
the impact be if you don’t achieve what you set out to do? How will you feel?

Then, choose the embodied actions (thoughts, feelings, language, actions) that will
support and create the possibility for “getting” what you want.

Think about what small shifts you can make throughout your day and your week that
can help bring new habits or practices into your life. Let’s do this for ourselves, and for
the organizations that we lead, our families, our communities.

My coaching and consulting work serves purposeful leaders and mission-driven

organizations who are at a crossroads of some kind.

Rather than jumping in to “what should I do next.” when we take the time to pause
and find clarity on our goals of impact, our why’s and thus our strategic trajectory – it
helps us find our true value and alignment with our purpose or our organization’s
mission. And meaningful success comes, with joy and ease.

If you’re feeling inspired, and want to make this YOUR year, I invite you to schedule a
complimentary Clarity Call to discuss your scenario and what it would look like for me to
guide you or your organization in 2019 to set and achieve YOUR intentions for this year
and beyond.

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ABOUT KATHRYN

Named “Top Leadership Coach of the Year” in 2018 by the International Association of Top
Professionals, Kathryn R. Martin coaches non-profit boards, founders and purpose-driven executives to
create empowered momentum and leverage moments of change into opportunities for growth,
revenue-generation, engagement and meaningful success.

Kathryn’s hands-on and intuitive approach reveals a client’s purpose, impact and true value, which
causes transformational breakthroughs and big shifts. She is known for helping clients at a crossroads
quickly get unstuck and create the mindset, language and strategies to move from their “Point A” into
their extraordinary “Point B.”

As one of the top non-profit Interim Leaders and Transition Strategists in the United States, Kathryn has
consulted with over 150 arts and culture organizations, and has supervised, trained and coached
professional Interim leaders placed in organizations throughout the country. Additionally, she has led
nine arts and culture organizations through transition as a professional interim Executive Director –
most recently serving as Interim Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony, Interim President &
CEO of the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, and Executive Director of the Linda
Pace Foundation in San Antonio.

Kathryn’s leadership coaching clients are following their passion in theaters, symphony orchestras,
operas, dance companies, foundations, arts and culture departments, corporations and businesses,
universities and social service agencies around the world. Kathryn’s clients experience
an integrated hands-on consulting approach with intuitive transformational leadership coaching, in
a unique format that creates the possibilities for results – quickly. For some that means making big
decisions on career trajectory and leadership strategies, launching a new business, catapulting (and
monetizing) existing talents.

Before launching her business in 2016, Kathryn served as Vice President at Arts Consulting Group (ACG)
for 12 years, Managing Director and SummerFest General Manager at the La Jolla Music Society from
1998 to 2003, increasing contributed income by 160% and earned income by 103% over the four years,
and oversaw capital improvement projects and more than 250 events annually as the Production and
Facilities Manager at the Department of Music, University of California San Diego.

Helping individuals and organizations have the impact they are meant to have, makes Kathryn’s heart
sing, and she facilitates board and staff visioning summits, is a frequent guest speaker, and works with
successful leaders in 1:1 coaching, small group leadership Masterminds, and in her signature program:
the “Create Your Dream Career (Life!) Impact Intensive” TM. Kathryn is partnering with the City of San
Antonio and launched a six-month multi-organization Arts Leadership Development & Strategy
Mastermind for Board Presidents and Executive Directors.

Kathryn serves on the Boards of the Association of California Symphony Orchestras and Santa Barbara
Symphony.