How to Create your Passionate Success; a 5 step model to get Your GIG ON™!

[Dr. Lisa Cooney, MFT]

How to Create your Passionate Success; a 5 step model to get Your GIG ON™!


Can you hardly wait to get up in the morning and start your day because you are doing what you LOVE? Is your life SIZZLING? And are you taking EMPOWERED, PROACTIVE Action to manifest your best LIFE? Do you know that you are meant to have, be and do anything you want?
If your answers are YES than you are ready to further your dreams to get your GIG ON! If your answers are NO then we have got work to do to get your GIG ON! Living from a NO drains the joy and passion right out of your life. Living from the YES aligns you with your soul’s calling; that which has heart and meaning to you and that which you are destined to do.

We all no longer need to put off our dreams, desires, intentions, goals or action steps. In fact, we can’t afford to live that way anymore. The only thing we really want to put off is our obstacles to manifesting. Remember vision without action is an illusion. And obstacles love to create the web of illusion and paradigms of complaints and justifications for not following through on what you said you were going to do. Or what you wanted to do. Or even what you long to do. And certainly doing what you’re passionate about is the key to a well balanced, holistic, satisfied and grounded life.

The five step GIG ON™! Process I developed so we can all achieve our passionate success has been successfully used by businesses, corporations and professionals to lead them from their vision to practical and empowered manifestation. A clear vision and goal orientation is the hallmark of all high achieving and successful individuals and thriving organizations. Peak performing executives and professionals are motivated by compelling and meaningful ideas and target goals. These days it can be fairly simple to clarify your business goals, however moving those goals forward towards a tangibly successful conclusion continues to be a problematic area for many professionals, individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses. Action steps and setting goals are also problematic due to the personal beliefs, limits, constrictions and paradigms of the people attempting to manifest them. Every single person I have ever worked with, professionally or personally, held a FEAR – False Evidence Appearing Real, perspective of not only failing but of actually succeeding and embracing what they set out to do.

You see we are all used to failing in some way and we expect it at a very core level. In fact, many of us keep creating the cycle of failure over and over again expecting some other result. Most of us have no blueprint for fully succeeding enacting our full potential. The GIG ON process is that blueprint, use it and you will only fail if you stop doing what you said you were going to do! This blocks us most but what a relief to know that we are the only obstacle to what we truly want. Noting external stops us, it’s out internal world that we manifest externally so that we can continue expecting failure. We are experts at False Evidence Appearing Real – FEAR!

Manifestation without action is an illusion! The GIG ON™ process works whether your business is a product or a service; technology or marketing; coaching or hair care; finances or self care. It will harness the power of a your intent and mission, by concretizing and aligning those goals with a passionate vision and effective strategic action, leading to only one result – the successful accomplishment of your goals! Your success, harmony, abundance and prosperity await you. All you have to do is LEAP to your heart-felt professional and personal visions into concrete, satisfying and juicy manifestation!

The five steps to get your GIG ON™ are:
1. Set your Goal
2. Create your Intention
3. Acknowledge your Gratitude
4. Identify the Obstacles
5. Take Action that is SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-based)

In this model, we set the goal last and focus on the intention first. We all need to know what we intend and why we want to do something. This motivates us to take action because we honor that it is our dream and desire and we have the courage to state it, write it and vision it. The intention gets the energy moving toward the desired result – the goal accomplishment. Then you ask yourself, if you follow through on your intention, what would you be grateful for? Be specific, share from your heart and have the generosity of spirit to speak from your soul. Each of us has a soul print, the unique character DNA of our essence, this is the work we all do in the world. Without that acknowledgement, our intentions and dreams have no passion, no drive and certainly no inspiration.

After your intention and gratitude is outlined and written down. Get at least 2-3 of each formally stated and then you will begin to hear your mind, your ego, your personality and your FEAR speak. It will begin the litany of reasons why you can’t have what you intend and pop your gratitude balloon before you get your goal set and action started. This is where most of us fail to get past and why most of us are still complaining about what didn’t happen ‘x’ number of years ago and why. This is when we start to lose our focus and drop our desires and then we usually make poor choices and go of course. Yet, with GIG ON™, the obstacle is included in the business plan. I want you to name your obstacles, all your FEAR’s, all your I CANT’s and all the reasons WHY the world and everything in it will block your road to success. This is when you really start to identify how responsible you are for the lack or scarcity of what you don’t have in your life. This is the authentic unfolding of your passionate success. Discovering what you are doing to block what you want makes it easier to see the pathway to your abundance and actually manifest what you want. In this third step, identifying the obstacles creates your seniority over your paradigm on NO and lack and opens you up to joy and passion. Now, you get to move your GIG to the ON button again.

The fourth step is literally writing down and naming all the actions you need to do to meet your desired intent and gratitude and avoid the brakes the obstacle puts on your dreams. Most people have the hardest time with this because action becomes the illusion and drains the vision. Sometimes, we need to literally create from scratch the blueprint of what we want, sometimes we have to meet with 2 or 3 other professionals who do what we do to get some ideas, sometimes we have to set apart time in our busy lives each day to manifest the writing of just our vision, sometimes we need coaching, therapy or to attend a workshop, sometimes we need to read a book, sometimes we need to just do anything to begin the process of moving the energy toward our intention and gratitude. Whatever your actions are they always need to be SMART – specific (what will you do), measurable (or how long or how many times), attainable (can you do that or know someone who can help you do that), realistic (will you create the time to make it happen) and time based (when will you do it).

Finally, based on your intention and gratitude and action steps, using your seniority to address your obstacles to achieving and having what you want, you are ready to state, set and ground your goal. It becomes clear what the goal is by what you wrote as your intention, gratitude, obstacle and action steps. And by doing all that work first, the goal is simple, clear and effortless to see, do and know. Problem solved, you now know how to manifest your dreams with action based in passion. Each GIG ON™ goal is done for 30 day periods at a time to keep it circulating and moving and to keep your ideas innovative and engaging!

Now you will wake up inspired, energized and excited to see where the magic of the GIG ON™ process takes you so you can celebrate and sustain your goal setting success!

'Every peak performer is a systematic goal setter'

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©2008 Dr. Lisa Cooney