Board of Life Directors, surrounding ourselves by AMAZING people
Dreaming, Our Dreams //
Earlier this year while we were visiting our good friends Justin & Mary we chatted about the need to have more AMAZING people in our lives. We jokingly said that we needed to create a match.com for small business owners to help us connect with other similar minded people. Although we were joking about this idea, it did spark another idea…
All large businesses and many nonprofits have a Board of Directors. One definition we have heard for a board of directors is a group of people that provides a company with direction and advice. We continued to think on this and thought, why can’t we have a Board of LIFE Directors that would provide us with direction and advice for our LIFE. Why couldn’t we have a Board of LIFE Directors!
Last week, as we were reflecting on our AMAZING Life Manifesto Video: Surround Yourself by Incredible People, we knew we had to turn our idea into a reality.
We came up with a short mission statement to describe our Board of LIFE Directors:
“The goal of our board of life directors is to surround ourselves by amazing people that we can turn to for advice. People that live a similar lifestyle, have similar values, and people that are not afraid to tell us the honest truth when necessary.”
Next, we came up with two simple duties for our board members.
1. Support us and encourage others in living an AMAZING life.
Our lives are short and are not meant to be lived in stress, working jobs we are not passionate about, or living someone else’s dream. As a member of our Board of LIFE Directors you are already living your own AMAZING life, we only ask that you help us to encourage others to do the same. We would love your continued support and feedback on additions to our AMAZING Life Manifesto, ways to improve our message and ideas on how to help others live their own AMAZING life.
2. Provide us with true and honest feedback
In order to grow as a business and a couple we need people that are willing to provide us with true and honest feedback. People that are not afraid to tell us when an idea we think is amazing may actually be off the mark. People that will keep us in check and push us each day to live better, follow our dreams, and never give up. Only with true and honest feedback, will we be able to improve our business, our brand, our message, our life, and the lives of others.
Next, we created a fun little invitation and began inviting our board members:
Currently we have filled half of our board member positions with four AMAZING people. Once we fill out our entire board we plan to ask each member “What does Living an AMAZING life mean to you?” We will then feature each board member and their responses on our blog!
So, this brings us back to the main point of writing this post. We want to encourage everyone to create their own Board of LIFE Directors that will help them to live a more AMAZING life.
Over the weekend, while you are watching the baseball playoffs (let’s go O’s), take the following simple steps to create your own Board:
1. Write out a Mission Statement for your Board. Not sure where to start? Think about what strikes a passion in you, or areas in your life and business in which you need a little extra guidance and craft your Mission Statement around those things.
2. Create a short list of simple duties for your board members. Most people already have super busy lives so be sure to make the duties simple enough that they do not overwhelm your board.
3. Brainstorm a list of people that you would like to have on your board. We hope to have 8 members on our board but you could have 2 or 12. This is your board and there are no rules. Also, you can always add to your board in the future, so don’t worry if you can’t fill all your spots right away.
4. Invite your board members. We created a fun graphic and invited our members via email but feel free to be creative when asking your members to join the board!
For another perspective on creating your own Board of LIFE Directors, be sure to check out Justin and Mary Marantz’s (current members of our board) blog today!