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From: "Mark's Motivation Mail" <motivation@chattertonworld.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 06:01:35 +0800
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient>
Subject: Take Stock, Take Charge & Take Action by Gavin Ingham
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Why do some
people seem to have all of the time in the world to get things done
whilst others constantly seem to be frazzled? How can some people
win new clients every month, service existing clients amazingly,
manage sales teams, become industry go-to experts, deliver awesome
lectures, write books, climb mountains, run marathons, take part in
fabulous social activities and live the lives of their dreams?
And yet others struggle to remove themselves from firefighting, admin
and dealing with challenges and spend their mornings, noons and
evenings glued to their email?
It's an important question. It might be one of the most important.
Ultimately, you will be defined by what you do and by what you
achieve not by how busy you are.
Being busy is not the same as being successful. Working hard is not
the same as working smart. Putting the hours in is pointless if
you're working on the wrong activities.
When I work with businesses I see busy people, energetic sales teams
and frantic business leaders. I see many, many people working hard
to "get things done."
But "getting things done" is sometimes not the same as achieving
your objectives!
My lifelong passion is all about understanding what differentiates top
performers and helping others to achieve great results too. What
makes one person a sales superstar and another a sales wannabe?
What empowers one person to be a rockstar presenter and another a
washout? What is it that enables one leader to lead their team to
"victory" whilst another couldn't lead theirs to the pub?
And one of the key differentiators is that top performers spend more
time working on activities that lead to results...
Simple truth...
If two people of equal ability, passion and knowledge work the same
market in the same way but one spends 50% of their time on
activities that lead to results and the other only spends 25% then the
first one will outperform the second one. Every time.
This is simple and obvious and yet it is not something which drives
many peoples' behaviours. Over time, most people fall into habits...
We do things because "we should", we do things because "we always
have", we do things because "that's the way others do it", we do
things because "we were told to"...
But we ought to be doing things because they get us the results that
we want.
Here are 3 simple steps to get you more of the results that you want
in your sales, in your business and in your life...
Step 1: Take Stock.
Ask yourself what results you want and then work out what activities
directly lead to those results. Map how you spend your time. How
much time do you spend on these results based activities versus
how much time do you spend doing other things?
Step 2: Take Charge.
Commit time to results based activities. Protect this time. Make it
sacrosanct. Do not be distracted. Drop "time-wasting" activities,
stop acts of procrastination and learn to say "No" (to yourself and
others).
Know that everybody has the same amount of time in a day and
how you spend yours is down to you.
Step 3: Take Action.
Make it happen. Change happens in an instant when you decide to
take action. How you spend your time will determine your results
so take action now to get on the road to the results that you want.
And finally, be your own coach, assessing how you do, refining
your approach and holding yourself accountable.
And here's the magical thing... This is a never-ending process
because the more successful you are, the more you have to gain
from this process and the greater the opportunities are to
improve.
people seem to have all of the time in the world to get things done
whilst others constantly seem to be frazzled? How can some people
win new clients every month, service existing clients amazingly,
manage sales teams, become industry go-to experts, deliver awesome
lectures, write books, climb mountains, run marathons, take part in
fabulous social activities and live the lives of their dreams?
And yet others struggle to remove themselves from firefighting, admin
and dealing with challenges and spend their mornings, noons and
evenings glued to their email?
It's an important question. It might be one of the most important.
Ultimately, you will be defined by what you do and by what you
achieve not by how busy you are.
Being busy is not the same as being successful. Working hard is not
the same as working smart. Putting the hours in is pointless if
you're working on the wrong activities.
When I work with businesses I see busy people, energetic sales teams
and frantic business leaders. I see many, many people working hard
to "get things done."
But "getting things done" is sometimes not the same as achieving
your objectives!
My lifelong passion is all about understanding what differentiates top
performers and helping others to achieve great results too. What
makes one person a sales superstar and another a sales wannabe?
What empowers one person to be a rockstar presenter and another a
washout? What is it that enables one leader to lead their team to
"victory" whilst another couldn't lead theirs to the pub?
And one of the key differentiators is that top performers spend more
time working on activities that lead to results...
Simple truth...
If two people of equal ability, passion and knowledge work the same
market in the same way but one spends 50% of their time on
activities that lead to results and the other only spends 25% then the
first one will outperform the second one. Every time.
This is simple and obvious and yet it is not something which drives
many peoples' behaviours. Over time, most people fall into habits...
We do things because "we should", we do things because "we always
have", we do things because "that's the way others do it", we do
things because "we were told to"...
But we ought to be doing things because they get us the results that
we want.
Here are 3 simple steps to get you more of the results that you want
in your sales, in your business and in your life...
Step 1: Take Stock.
Ask yourself what results you want and then work out what activities
directly lead to those results. Map how you spend your time. How
much time do you spend on these results based activities versus
how much time do you spend doing other things?
Step 2: Take Charge.
Commit time to results based activities. Protect this time. Make it
sacrosanct. Do not be distracted. Drop "time-wasting" activities,
stop acts of procrastination and learn to say "No" (to yourself and
others).
Know that everybody has the same amount of time in a day and
how you spend yours is down to you.
Step 3: Take Action.
Make it happen. Change happens in an instant when you decide to
take action. How you spend your time will determine your results
so take action now to get on the road to the results that you want.
And finally, be your own coach, assessing how you do, refining
your approach and holding yourself accountable.
And here's the magical thing... This is a never-ending process
because the more successful you are, the more you have to gain
from this process and the greater the opportunities are to
improve.
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