Thrusters On Full… I’m Being Sucked In And There’s No Escape…
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately from guru after guru about setting short to long term goals and making sure that everything is aligned with achieving those goals. To work on only 1 project at a time and avoid jumping on every bandwagon that comes along.
3 years ago I quit working for someone else and started my own business. Sometimes though, I feel like I’ve traded one job for another that pays me less money and makes me do more work. But hey, at least I’m my own boss right?
So why do I continue with it? Because I know that if I could just focus on my business goals for 5 minutes and stop chasing opportunities, I could turn it into the business I know it has the potential to be. A business providing me with a steady income and more time to do other things.
So if I know what I need to do, why then do I suddenly find myself being sucked back into the Underachievers 30-Day Challenge this month? Have I forgotten how last year, despite my best intentions, I got practically nothing done on my business for a whole month? Or that I got very little sleep? At least I had the full support of my wife last year!
The trouble is, my opportunistic impulses are too strong to resist. I’m too weak and I haven’t mastered control of my feelings. I really need some Jedi training.
The thing about the 30-Day Challenge is that I know from last year how amazing it will be. The chance to get involved in an interactive learning experience within a great community and with a very good chance of having a profitable business drop out at the end. Not only that, but I can apply a lot of the new techniques I’ll be learning to my existing business.
And it’s not an opportunity I can postpone for 6 months. It’s an event and it’s happening right now.
I had thought that I could just see what was going on, learn a few things and get back to business. But it’s compelling stuff and I’ve got sucked right back into it!
It’s only day 4 of the challenge (well, nearly 5 actually) and I’m already 3 days behind. But I know I can catch up. I really want to succeed at this and meet the challenge.
I guess motivation is one of the key factors here and the trick is to try and get so fired up about achieving a goal that you’d do almost anything to make it happen.
I feel a Success Tip coming on but I’ve got about 8 more videos of Ed and Frank to watch and follow through on, plus more WIS notes to write up, a few customer support emails to respond to and some urgent consultancy to attend to (that just this minute came in)… Now where did I put those caffeine tablets…
And I’m so glad we booked that family holiday to the seaside for the middle of July. How’s that for timing? Maybe I can work an Undies project out of that…