small things

This year has started without being noticed.
Flu kept me away from my normal activities and forced me to rest and to concentrate my energy to recover.

This has been a strange feeling and new experience. Normally I do not want to keep things unfinished before the year ends. It is a kind internal discipline that forces me to finish all pending tasks. Of course I always realize I am unable to complete everything since the difference of 31st of December 2007 is noting more than a number that changes from 2007 to 1st of January 2008.

Nevertheless I am quite sure; some of you struggle with the same pattern. We want to close the year as we close our accounting. Is this really possible or even necessary to do so?

Today I am convinced that the year start anyway even without finishing everything and it does not make any difference to the quality of our results.
End of the year, beginning of a new year, most of us use to evaluate our goals, set new ones or make a kind of a balance of our obtained results. We even start implementing new effective habits. But most of this does not survive until the end of January.

Therefore, let us do things differently and implement each month a new goal, a new habit, something that we are convinced if we do this consistently, it will generate significant growth or more quality results.

To be concrete, start NOW in January implementing something new, same in February, March, April and June. Include a break in July and August and start again in September, October, November and December.

Implement every month small things and do this consistently. Research reveals that we need to live this new ‘small thing at least during 3 complete months before they become a part of our daily life, a part of us. Become a part of is like putting on your socks in the morning, you immediately feel the difference if you forgot to put 1 or even 2 socks. The same feeling you will experience when after 3 months you forget to live your new habit.

Just try it or even better, just do it, unlock your real potential just by implementing during 10 months 10 small things, you will be amazed about the results.

Know yourself, be excellent and stay excellent

In our search for overall success, we all know what we need to do, most of us know how to do it, …, but simply we don’t act.
Sales-people know they need to contact 5 people a day to arrange 1 meeting a day and for closing 2 deals a month. Reality shows, we do not make these 5 daily contacts. In order to stay and keep fit, we need to exercise, we all know this, but despite all signals our body transmits, most of us do not exercise. Many more illustration are living examples that we know what to do, how to do it, but simply not take action.
We do not translate our goals into daily actions, into eatable peaces, we do things and we hope we will achieve more or less our goals.

Real leaders understand that without these daily actions nothing or too few happen. After we understand better who we are, discover our real identity, recognize better our limitations and define our purpose, we need to take action, not only action, but massive action.
Unlocking our ‘TO DO’ button is the crucial step to obtain better and higher quality results