Have you ever felt overwhelmed or defeated by the enormity of a project, a task at hand or in fact your normal day to day ‘to-do list’…?
This was how I started my Sunday morning… 5.00am and already considering the sheer enormity of the things that I needed to do over the next few weeks.
Multiple individual coaching sessions, interstate travel, The Program mentoring sessions, preparing and delivering back to back multi-day conferences with a three day respite from an audience before another 3 day Mastermind event…
Feeling daunted and defeated was not how I wanted to start my Sunday…!
No matter what business you operate, I am sure you have at some point felt this way (…or maybe this is a common feeling for you!).
The feeling of the impending deadlines, the pressure of all the other tasks you have to do, not to mention knowing the curve balls and interruptions you will be thrown that you simply can’t plan for…
Ever found yourself saying ‘there just isn’t enough hours in the day’…?
It had me consider this whole concept of ‘time’, what it is, how we use it and how we manage it…
But rather than come from a place of trying to map out every minute of the next 14 days or pull some amazing new tool or strategy from another ‘expert’ off the internet, I considered time from a different perspective…
I asked myself “Have you ever missed a deadline..?”
Answer – “Nope”.
I asked myself “Have you ever been unprepared for a Mastermind event and the event go all wrong…?”
Answer – “Nope again”.
I asked myself “So what might be different this time…?”
Answer – “Nothing”…
The revelation amongst my answers to these questions was this… “Time takes care of itself”.
No matter how much I want to worry about it, no matter how I seek to organise, use or manage it, no matter how much more I feel I need… time will ignore me and take care of itself.
Here I was worrying about something that was simply a concept that I could not manipulate to my liking…
So, what did I do next…?
I got clear on what I wanted… “To nail all my work targets, continue to deliver amazing without fuss or compromise and in a state of flow”.
How was I going to achieve this…?
“Shane – Focus on the small tasks in front of you and ‘time’ and ‘results’ will take care of themselves”.
How did I feel…?
Far from overwhelmed, and where I was feeling well behind the 8 ball prior, I had now mapped out 6 small tasks to be completed that day and I was feeling back on track and in control…
So sometimes all it takes is a shift of perspective to get you unstuck… (lucky I can coach myself early on a Sunday morning!!).
How can this help you…?
Whereabouts in your business do you feel overwhelmed in getting through the work to deliver upon your goals and targets…?
What would be possible if you shifted your deadline and desired result off to the side and simply mapped out the handful of daily steps required to progress you…?
Tick those daily steps off and repeat for the next day…
Until you get the job done…!
I promise you will be released from that feeling of concern and overwhelm…
You will be approaching your tasks and projects with confidence, clarity and positivity…!
And the momentum you build will have you deliver your results on time…!
Trust me, there is “nothing sexier than success”…!
P.S: Whenever you’re ready…there are 2 ways I can help you create SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, SUCCESS AND PROFITS in your business:-
- Get With “THE PROGRAM”!
One of Australia’s most exclusive small group Business Masterminds. Learn and implement the 5M’s to business mastery, have regular coaching and mentoring and hang out with some cool like minded business owners…
If this sounds like it is for you Click Here
- Work with me One-on-One
If you’d like to work directly with me to Accelerate your business’s GROWTH, PROFITS and overall success… simply send me an email at shane@kaizen-strategies.com and put “One-on-One” in the subject line… Tell me a little about your business and why you’d like to work on together, and I’ll get you all the details!