Schedule Your Success
Believe and then schedule your success
One of the biggest excuses a person makes for the reason why they aren’t already successful or doing the things they know they ought to be doing is not having enough time. Well you know that everyone has the same amount of time in the day. It’s what you do with that time that matters.
You have to schedule your success. Meaning you have to make time everyday for the tasks that you know will make you successful. You cannot do anything without time to do it, so you have to make time. You have to set time aside to do those things that you know you should be doing.
This concept of setting time aside, is called time blocking. Time blocking is basically blocking out portions of time to do a certain tasks. If you time block high level activities, “Quadrant II” activities, consistently, you will be amazed at the level of success you will achieve.
Quadrant II activities is a concept from Stephen Covey’s book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. These are the things that are important but aren’t urgent. The more important things you do that aren’t urgent the more successful you will be.
If you are a young or small business, you should have Time Blocks for your marketing practices. Operations and “running your business” are important too, but if you are a “Stage 1″, as Michael Masterson puts it from his book, “Ready, Fire, Aim”, business (Making under 1 Million Dollars a Year), your main role should be selling and marketing.
You would be surprised at how much work you can get done with 30 minutes of un-interrupted work. This 30 minutes of productivity is a concept I got from “The Now Habit” by Neil Fiore. Get a timer and do 30 minutes of Quadrant II work, and you will be amazed at how much you can get done in a short amount of time.
If you schedule these time blocks everyday, you will be amazed at where you life will be years from now. Remember the most successful people in any field is successful because not of one or two great things they did. They got to where they are because of a constant and never ending commitment to doing those things everyday that lead to their success. The made time to schedule their success.
The year I was on the cover of Realtor Magazine I scheduled my whole day in blocks, I still do it to this day.
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