#1 Way to Kick Ass with Your Business Goals
Getting organized is perhaps one of the most underrated keys to success. It’s not just about keeping a tidy work area because I can be messy and still be organized. Organization is important because when it comes to setting goals and achieving them, it’s almost impossible to do without getting organized. There are a few prerequisites that are required when we are creating goals and striving to achieve them. There’s an important tip to remember in order to kick Ass with your business goals.
So, Why is it so hard to achieve a goal?
It’s frustrating because it leads to stress and feeling unfulfilled. Failing to hit specific goals also makes us feel like we’re wasting time. Especially when that time could’ve been spent building relationships around us. Why should you continue to put so much time and effort into your endeavors without ever fulfilling them? Here’s a powerful rule that I think may change your life
When is the last time that you were in a fight with ten people at once? How about twenty? One hundred? How about 365 people at one time? That’s like spending your lunch break attempting to fight every person you encounter on a busy downtown city street! Of course, you haven’t tried this. Even Beatrix Kiddo and John Wick together haven’t taken on 365 enemies at once, yet we attempt to do it daily. When we attempt to conquer our goals, we often look at all the days at once. When the new year hits, we say, “I’m gonna kick this whole year’s butt!”
Regardless of whether the new goal requires thirty days or six months, we approach it with the tenacity to defeat every day all at once. However, it’s much easier to kick one butt at a time than it is to attempt to kick 300, and the same applies to how you approach your goals. The first problem to recognize is that your focus has been jeopardized. When we focus on too many days or things ahead of us, then it diminishes our focus on what must be done now. The boulders that you break down today will be used as stepping stones to the tomorrow you desire.
When we’re spending our time and efforts battling with the future before it’s even here, then we are also destroying our platform for success. Plan for tomorrow, but execute on the present. This also plays a part in our intentionality as well. If we’re focused on what we have to do tomorrow or how much further we still have left to go, then guess what? The work that we have in front of us right now is probably not going to get the attention that it deserves! This is also what prevents so many of us from starting a goal to begin with.
For instance, let’s say that your goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months. You begin dreading the thought of having to work out and eat right for over a hundred days straight! Therefore, you decide to slack off today and restart tomorrow. But the focus shouldn’t be on all of the days that you have ahead of you; instead, it should just be on eating right and working out today! It’s the only day that truly matters.
#1 Tool to beat the day and reach your goals
When we were kids, it was easy to just focus on the task at hand and not worry about what will happen next. But as adults, our lives are constantly full of stresses that make us feel like we’re fighting 300 things at once. It’s exhausting! The Super Power Planner is designed specifically for people who need help focusing on their goals one day at a time by giving you space for visualizing how much progress you’ve made towards those goals each week so far this year and then summarizing them into monthly totals.