You’ve got to build your relationships and your finances, as well as your health and calmness of mind.
If you’re not building, they will die.
Let’s build!
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Category: Progress
Negotiations Often Require 7 Touches
When you begin a negotiation, start by thinking you will go back and forth 7 times or even more.
Don’t start out thinking it will be one and done. Begin with the idea that they will reject your first 3-4 offers. In fact, you can make the first, full offers such that they are very likely to reject them.
When you prepare for rejections and 7 touches, it makes it easier getting through the negotiation.
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Why Wait?
If you want to achieve something, why wait five years to start? What are you waiting for? Start working on it right now from today.
Start with the idea and set aside 30 minutes in your calendar today to research it online. Book the specific 30 minutes in, say from 8:30pm to 9:00pm.
Yes, you’ll miss that tv show you kind of like. However, this small sacrifice will also prove whether you are serious about pursuing this idea or you only sort of want to do it.
Then, put 15-130 minutes a day into your calendar for the next 7 days so you’re clear when you are working on this. And then do it!
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The End Always Arrives
If there is a beginning, there’s going to be an end one day. We just don’t always know when that will be.
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7 Simple Steps
You can do anything in about 7 simple steps. You could stop smoking or drinking. There’s a plan you could follow to get fit, lose weight, and become healthier.
Do you want to launch a rocket to the moon? I’m sure there’s a way to do it in 7 simple steps.
A lot of people want to complicate things. Or they assume there is just too much work to achieve anything. However, life is pretty simple. It’s not always easy, but it is simple.
Go find a way to do something extraordinary!
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Results Or Distraction?
What do you focus on? How do you plan your day? Do you let diversions or drama interfere with your discipline?
The more results you achieve in a day, the faster you’ll grow your business. The more distractions you allow in your day, slows your business down, costs you more and weakens your brand and your reputation.
Use time wisely. Stack the results!
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Be Willing To Work
Everyone wants an easy route to success. Sit on the beach, drink Mai-Tai’s and let the wins pile up.
That would be great!
It’s not really realistic though. I suppose a few people could organise their situation to have this happen. Though I doubt it would work for most people.
Recall music or sports managers or agents that have ripped off people. You can outsource work, but you had better be very tightly managing the outsource activity. Trust but verify – daily! At worst you could do it weekly. But do not leave it longer than that.
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Plan. Begin. Pivot. Continue.
This is how most of life goes.
You have a wish, desire or goal. You develop a little or big plan to achieve that goal. Then you start out all excited trying to achieve your goal.
Things then happen and you often will find out you need to pivot at that point.
From there it may all be fine so you can continue. However, if it is not all fine, you may need to pivot again.
Then repeat this process for everything you do in life. It’s that simple.
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Act Quickly
Some say, “Strike while the iron is hot” and it means a similar thing to act quickly. The idea is that you need to take action immediately when the moment strikes you.
Even if it’s a small thing to do, like a diary entry, a phone call, looking something up online or changing your clothes (for a run or workout), you should do it.
Get that first step started and you instantly gain momentum. This makes it easier and more likely that you will carry this idea forward.
In the end, that is the important part. Get Started. Get going. Keep going.
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Tidy
A tidy room, space, house, or office looks great and is very efficient. If you work at it daily for a few minutes, it becomes a great habit that pays dividends in calm and your ability to find what you’re looking for.
Keeping the mess, or weeds in a garden, at bay is important. Like anything in life, you’re either growing or shrinking, pruning back or being taken over by the the things growing around you.
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