Imagine: It’s early 2017 and many business owners are enjoying the “post-New Year’s honeymoon phase.” Yet, very few will have that best year ever that they resolved to have. In fact, almost all of them will end up dashed on the rocks, victims of the triplet siren songs — procrastination, overwhelm and “it’s always been done this way.”
According to Statistic Brain Research Institute only 8 percent of people achieve their New Year’s resolution. It’s easy to be in the 92 percent who fail. The question is: What are you going to do differently to be in that elite 8 percent?
Shorten your time horizon.
I advise you to focus on the next 90 days instead of all of 2017. Author Michael Hyatt talks about how it helped him become a New York Times best-selling author, as a first timer. Moreover, an accountability group’s members showed much better results focusing on 90-day goals than on the full 365-day calendar year. With 365 days, it’s just too easy to justify procrastination in your own mind. You can say to yourself, “There are still over 300 days left in the year,” or “There’s still plenty of time, the year’s just begun.”
Writing your goals down on paper and/or in digital format is the first step. As a business owner, it’s probably a step you’ve been doing for a while. But you probably still fall short of those goals. I have many times. So how do we stack the odds “ever in your favor?”
Elevate your mindset.
Schedule some “time chunks” several times each week, or preferably once every day, perhaps as part of your morning ritual (I follow Hal Elrod’s in his book The Miracle Morning). These time chunks need be only five to 10 minutes, but I recommend 30 minutes or more per chunk. Here’s why.
Elevating your mindset is the most critical thing you can do to grow your business. Getting and staying clear on your vision for both what your business must do and what you want from your life is top priority. You must re-examine your business model and decide what you’ll upgrade during this 90-day period.
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