Ahmad Saleem writes:

Asalaamu alaikum,

I took Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef’s Time Traveller.

For your vision of Leechon and everything, did you create a separate binder with your ultimate vision and purpose and goals? How often did you check them and how did you measure them?

I’m having troubles setting up my binder to do some major change in my life! If you could help, would be awesome. I missed opportunity to be an intern.

Walaikum asalaam Ahmad,

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Regarding Leechon’s vision, purpose and goals -
They have evolved as I’ve learned more about the business and developed myself and my own visions and goals.

I believe the point of the exercise in Muhammad Alshareef’s Time Traveler series is to help develop a strategy and to have direction in what you’re doing.

The key to developing and executing an effective strategy has a lot to do with having orderly arrangement of resources positioned appropriately. At times you may have to develop the very resources you need in order to move forward.

Resources can be things such as money, people, systems, goals and other types of assets.

Obviously you wont have everything you want when you start. It’s important to move forward with what you have available in the smartest possible way. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to get going.

If you study physics in school – you’ll learn that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion. The key is to get into motion and keep moving within the strategy and resources you have positioned.

It’s also important to plan in the eventuality that you succeed. However, you can only see fo sar into the horizon. Therefore you need to put most of your efforts towards planning your opening moves.

It’s like a game of chess.

You can’t really see beyond the opening moves due to the massive amounts of variability that exists in life. As the situation changes and the realities of the new horizon are understood, you adjust and plan your next opening moves with your new found resources.

I believe its very important to sit down and understand what you personally want to be. I periodically brainstorm for 8-10 hrs at a time so I can readjust and develop my strategy further.

First time I did this back in 2008. I came to the conclusion that ultimately I personally want to become an executive producer. With that new understanding, all the moves I make, the decisions I say “yes” or “no” to are in context to whether or not it’ll help me fulfill that vision.

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Regarding Binder -
I never kept a binder. My work with my company has evolved as time progressed.

Leechon started as a result of 1-on-1 coaching I had with Shaykh Muhammad back in 2006. That led to producing a DVD which I sold for profit. At the time I kept a personal blog as per his instruction >> http://limitedimmortality.blogspot.com/

Later that blog led me to making one for Leechon – below is a link to my first project I did “professionally”

http://www.leechon.com/the-strangers-26.htm

Last year when I completed my coaching certification with Shaykh Muhammad, I got myself a nice suede journal that I use for coaching myself. Basically I write as if I’m talking with a coach, then I respond as if I am the coach – very effective for me personally. However, it doesn’t work for everyone nor does it beat out having a live coach talking directly with you.

Hope that helps.