This is your opportunity to shine! Use all your energy to win and move ahead with your big goals.
Follow your plan. Make the calls. Follow up. Measure your progress.
You’re on this spinning rock for a short time. Get out there and make YOUR dreams come true.
This doesn’t mean millions or everything you’ve got. However, it does mean give of your time and money so that others can benefit from your good fortune, wise counsel, capable hands and caring nature.
If you’ve been blessed with abundance, help others to help themselves and assist while they get going on that road.
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.
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!
It shows self respect, that you’re organised, and that you respect the other person’s request and their time.
And by being on time, that means show up 5-10 minutes early. Then there is no argument about whether you were on time or not.
It also indicates that you think that the person is importance and that you value their time in your life.
Of course the opposite to all of these is also true.
Be on time.
To add a little extra to Mel Robbins’ latest book, we should let them cook. Let your kids show you what they can do. Let your employees do their thing.
Let people play out their game before you jump in all judgey with complaints and comments.
You don’t run into the kitchen at your favourite restaurant and criticise the half made soup or partly cooked main. Let people do the full cook before you jump on your judgey wagon and explain how they did it all wrong in your (often less experienced) eyes.
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!
As with the previous planning post, you need to take the action and Save The Date.
Book things into your calendar. Save The Date so you don’t lose it to something less important. Do it quickly and confidently.
Time lasts forever. Humans don’t (currently).
The likelihood of reaching 100 years old is about 1 in 100,000.
Average life expectancy is about 80. And the last few years of life at older years are often a little slower and harder. So don’t count on those being great years to do things like travel and intense activities.
So don’t waste time. Spend it wisely. Every minute. Every day.
Flying by the seat of your pants and hoping it all goes well, is certainly one strategy.
Planning ahead is also a strategy. That one tends to be more calming and produce better results.
What are you planning for 2026, 2027 and 2028?
