Shift-It Map Details

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The letters in “SHIFT-IT” are an acronym that stands for the 7-part journey listed below:

Satisfaction Interrupted
Harvest Your History
Investigate Your Now
Focus on Your Future
Trouble at the Border
Ink It, Don’t Just Think It
Take Action

SHIFT-IT is an intensive thinking experience … a place for you to step back from your day-to-day activities and ponder the larger picture of your life. It is a highly reflective and personal experience. The results? Renewed clarity, focus and momentum for the things that are most important to you – both professionally and personally. You figure out what you really want. You work through your resistance to having it. And move forward with consistent action and belief. The things you want are magnetized to you in record time. So let’s figure it out together…

Usually people are drawn to this work when their general satisfaction has been interrupted in some way. It may be that you have reached one set of goals, and are wondering what is next. Or, you may have hit a life milestone and are re-grouping as a result (sold business, left job, graduation, divorce, kids leaving the house, significant birthday, retirement, etc). Or you may be frustrated by having not yet reached the potential you inherently feel you have, and are ready to break through. Whatever the reasons, at the first stage of this process, the SHIFT-IT System aids you in mapping out what is ‘up’ for you. What crossroads you are standing at?

Merkley Map #1 – At The Crossroads

The second step of the SHIFT-IT System is to ‘harvest your history’. Who you are today is a culmination of your experiences, beliefs, and exposures. You are in the midst of your own unique ‘evolutionary’ process. Nothing happens in a vacuum … there is always a larger context that can help you make greater sense of your current situation. Here is where you will graphically record your life-to-date. Tracking where you have been to better understand your past, your influences, and how you have created your current reality. And releasing that which no longer serves you and who you no longer are.

Merkley Maps #2-6 – The Life Maps

The third step of the SHIFT-IT System is to ‘investigate your now’. This is an opportunity to view your present reality. To see what is going on for you right now (X marks the spot). How satisfied and dissatisfied you are in the different areas of your life. What do you have going for you (your strengths and skill sets) and what do you most need to learn (your learning and developmental areas). And taking an inventory of the materials, assets and resources that you currently have at your disposal.

Merkley Maps #7-8 – Focus on Me and S.E.L.F. Inventory

The fourth step of SHIFT-IT is to ‘focus on your future’. After analyzing your past and your present circumstances, you are now ready to embrace the future you truly desire. This module is all about proclaiming and stating what you truly want. A chance to dream and dream BIG. You create your own custom Personal Vision which is your order form or instructions ‘to the universe’. This vision becomes your North Star. Your magnet. Pulling all of your positive desires towards you.

Merkley Maps #9-11 – Essential Extracts, Future Self Vision and Magnetism Map

The fifth step is ‘trouble at the border’. This is a hugely important step – a step that most other strategic planning programs ignore. Whenever you create a Vision, you MUST deal with the resistant energy that arises in opposition to it. Here’s where you get clear on what your natural resistance is to having what you want – to making your vision a reality. You uncover your blocks, doubts, uncertainties (that Itty Bitty Sh!tty Committee inside of your head that doesn’t want you to move out of your stagnant, but comfortable, safety zone). The Trouble at the Border stage is a blockbuster – literally! It gets you aligned and ‘allowing’ your Vision – working with powerful, cutting-edge Law of Attraction and Alchemical processes that are made powerfully simple via the visual approach.

Merkley Maps #12-14 – Flip It, Inner Alignment and Archeology of Beliefs

The sixth step is “Ink It Don’t Just Think It” and it is very powerful. You can’t stop with just thinking about your life. You must create an overarching, holistic plan that is put down on paper. This is the move that pulls all of your thinking into one cohesive picture: Your Big Picture Plan. It bridges the gap between your current reality and the reality that you want to create. It starts organizing you and getting you clear on the next steps you will need to take. This stage transitions you from the land of dreaming into the LAND OF DOING. Now you are ready to assume responsibility and start taking action!

Merkley Map #15 – My Big Picture Plan

The final step of the process is “Take Action”. With Law of Attraction (or LOA) at work, your Vision is being magnetized as long as you are open and allowing for it. But just because LOA is at work, doesn’t mean you get a completely free ride – you still need to take an active role in your own transformation. Success comes to people who take responsibility for themselves, and actually implement the things they know are their next steps. This final phase of the process gets you down to a detailed, S.M.A.R.T plan (specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and timely). And supports you in doing your steps, creating a healthy, supportive, encouraging environment. And most importantly, it makes you make a very deep commitment and articulation of your intent – to the self you are in the process of becoming!