If you took some time to relax between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, good for you! Now you’re back in the thick of it. With urgency on more things than any one person should have to deal with. Oh, there’s this goal you dreamt up in December while you were chilling out – oh, forget that now! It’s never going to happen. No time to deal with that. Really? Just like that you’re going to toss it in? Give up before you even start? B.S. to that idea! If this dream, this goal, was … [Read more...]
How Determined Are You?
When you have a specific project to complete – do you dive right in and figure out what is needed and start the process – or do you check the deadline first and that drives your answer of when to start? Or, in your own business, you know you need to make some personnel changes, hiring some new people and letting some others go. Do you take action as soon as these decisions are clear or do you wait hoping something will change? These are for example purposes, however, the question about … [Read more...]
Do You Give 100% Every Day?
Is it possible to give 100% all the time at what we’re doing? Let’s start with an example. Professional athletes have a strength coach. Odds are they have a nutritionist or they work with one along with some others. Professional athletes respect their need to focus and have the ability to quiet the crowd noise. So the majority of them work with a professional coach for their mindset – their head – their brain. Another thing pro athletes do is they respect rest days. They take a rest day … [Read more...]
How Solid is Your Focus and Values?
Our focus and our values are guiding lights for our lives. Like a lighthouse guiding a ship at night from the sea to port. It’s not that these are forever in cement never to be changed or adjusted. However, careful thought and consideration must be given before that happens. Your focus and values have to remain true to you and more important you to them. This isn’t always easy. There will always be outside influences and distractions which will test your ability to remain true to your … [Read more...]
Do You Do Three Things?
Do you do three things? That is all I am asking for... what are three specific things done by you on a regular basis pretty much no matter what else is going on, every single day, you will always do these three things? Are you able to name them right now? Oh and each of these three things must add considerable value to at least one area on The Compass Of Life. Download your copy of The Compass of Life here. Each of these areas are reflected in the image – named in no specific order they … [Read more...]
Focus On One Thing
This will sound simple. It will sound easy. Many large, medium and small companies do not do it. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are guilty as well. It is so much much easier to get all caught up in so many other items that come up. Is it possible these are actually distractions presented to test us? A test to see how very committed we each actually are to our vision, mission and goals? FOCUS ON ONE THING - THE THINGS WE CAN ACTUALLY CONTROL Everything else - the things we cannot … [Read more...]
