Believe it or not it’s easy for the excitement of a New Year to wear off fast and in as little as 12 days the hope and anticipation you initially felt for the potential of your business and life can quickly fizzle out. But it doesn’t have to be that way. My hope for you is that you use the free Goals & Purpose Planner to take a decisive stand for your business and your life.
It takes 21 days to create new memory tracks for your brain to “run” on, so if you want to know how to effectively form new habits, you can. Here are 3 key steps to becoming a better you in just 3 weeks.
Socrates said, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” and your life, your business, your purpose is certainly worth the effort. Discover 24 thought provoking questions that you can use as part of your year end ritual to celebrate, critique the days past and more of what you want in the days to come.
Are you setting yourself up for failure each time you create your goals? Most entrepreneurs and small business owners are because they don’t understand the subtle distinction between something being possible vs probable. In just about 5 minutes, you can find out how to filter your goals and stop sabotaging your success.
Indecisiveness causes you to live by default, and when you do ironically you’ll likely get exactly what you’re trying to avoid. When you’re “The Boss” or the person that everyone looks to for leadership and direction there are going to be times when you have to make the choice that won’t make everyone happy.
Here’s what I know for sure, you can’t circle “someday” on a calendar and “I’ll get around to it” isn’t a line item on any schedule I’ve seen before. So if you truly want a different result, you’ve got to plan for a different result. That includes scheduling things in advance. It makes saying “no” to distraction and deviations so much easier because you can honestly say, “I’ve got something planned already…” and really mean it, then stick to it.
The romantic notion of gratitude tells us to “count your blessings… just look around…they’re everywhere if you’ll only be open to them…” But what I know for sure is that gratitude is an attitude that often requires something of us that we don’t believe we have the ability to give. And sometimes it demands gratefulness from us at a time when we have no desire to be it or give it. Here are 3 lessons on gratitude, grace and going for it that I’ve learned this year.
On October 24, 2008 my life changed forever when my father whom I adored died unexpectedly, suddenly, and sadly less than one week before his 58th birthday (October 30, 1950)
This month I added 2 new members to my virtual team and during my regular mastermind discussions, it occurred to me how running a business with a virtual team is a lot like conducting an orchestra.
Now there’s no need for me to wing-it or try to figure out the secret social media sauce on my own. Linked Influence has given me a simple, step-by-step blueprint for maximizing my results on LinkedIn, and my time on social media.
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