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Every body wants to get better results.
Who doesn’t want to see more fruit on the tree from the seeds they sow?
If you’ve read Poke the Box, you know that now is the time to start. Execute on your idea. Launch your business. Make your life changes. Mistakes don’t cost as much and are easier to overcome. The payoff is also bigger. The world is waiting for you to do something great.
Here are five steps to getting better results along the way:
1. Have a realistic timeframe
You’ve probably heard the saying that goals are dreams with an expiration date. Many times people make the mistake of setting the expiration date too soon. Look at any great success story and it wasn’t built overnight. Give yourself realistic milestones that you can hit, thereby raising your belief. Seek out the council from mentors that can help you develop a plan with reasonable timeframes.
2. Be committed
Eliminate the try mentality (cue Yoda line). Give your endeavor focus and singleness of purpose. You can’t just go when convenient. Be committed in thoughts and actions. There is no problem that sustained thought and consistent effort won’t solve.
3. Disassociate with discouraging influences
Sometimes you need to get away from certain people. Toxic associations produce doubt and poison productivity. If you spend your time around people that tear you down, it affects your attitude and destroys your dream. Your dream is one of the most powerful forces on Earth. Protect it.
4. Prepare for success
Begin with the end in mind. Imagine a point in the future when you have achieved the results you wanted. You got back in shape. You launched your business successfully. You secured VC capital for your start-up. Now, look back and write down what it took to get there. What resources, time, money, partners, etc. were in place to help you succeed. Start putting those things together. Prepare for the results to come.
5. Draw from past successes
When I played professional golf, one of the things I learned to do was visualize past successes of a shot I was about to hit. You can do this too. Just play a highlight reel in your head of when you faced a similar problem or took an action successfully. The more relevant of an experience you can remember the better.
Hey, we all want to get more out of our efforts. It is no fun just being busy for the sake of it. Besides, now is the time to enterprise and create. Have fun and enjoy the process.
Let me know in the comments, what steps have helped you get better results?
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