To all our highly valued clients and acquaintances:
No Fear? Going for the Challenge of Self-Mastery
Now that we are clearly past the first quarter, the tax season and the full launch of 2006, many of you have spoken with us about both the need and the challenge to get more focused (or re-focused). Maybe time for the proverbial “check up from the neck up?”
Your written goals and plans are clear – now it’s time for inspiration and perspiration.
What’s always required to move from vision to reality? From goal to accomplishment?
Call it what you will –
self-mastery -- implementation -- self-discipline -- execution
John Templeton considered this a senior priority. Stephen Covey suggests making ourselves a pilot project. Gandhi said “You must become the change you wish to see.”
As John Wooden, a legendary coach, might say, “Are you being and giving your best?”
Thomas Stanley often cites that there’s a lot to be said for a strong work ethic & tenacity.
What does it take for us to be and beat our best? To consistently have an energized focus? To sustain impeccable follow-through on both sales and service? To flawlessly execute?
Keeping our energy up, possibly amazing ourselves and outworking your competition?
Getting fired up and fueled by the best resources you can access to strengthen yourself?
Effective execution is one of the most critical challenges facing business owners.
- Do you clearly know what your most critical goals and priorities are?
- Are you fully committed to see those goals and priorities through to completion?
- Do your daily actions and behaviors match these goals?
- Do you have the tools and the discipline required to generate sustained success?
Got entrepreneurial thinking? As the CEO of your business, have you ever thought that you can give yourself a raise anytime you choose? Simply stand in front of a mirror and say – “I want to give you a healthy raise – raise becomes effective as soon as you are”
As we move into May, this is a good time to get a fresh grip around the fundamentals of your business. The weekly planning, the daily routines, the best use of high payoff time.
Please see the attached for some core ideas designed to improve your use of time & energy.
“Link to time use ideas”
Or read/peruse through the following texts for a fresh review and reminder of core ideas.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
A thought for the road?
Forming Good Habits
Changing habits that are no longer consistent with your higher purposes is
one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, and
one of the most essential to the quality of your life
Remember, bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with;
good habits are hard to form but easy to live with.
Your job is to form good habits and make them your masters.
-from “Maximum Achievement” by Brian Tracy
Good luck this month and going further into the 2nd quarter. Let’s keep in touch.
Always looking to serve you with productive and revenue generating ideas.
Til the next time, I am
Enthusiastically yours,
Coach Don
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