We have all good days and bad days in our business lives and
in our personal lives. Everything may not go as expected, the weather may be
dark and rainy, and everyone may not cooperate with us. We may believe that we
cannot do whatever we set out to do that day, but we must never, ever quit on a
bad day.
We all have goals, some of which must be long term, and some
must be short term. We need daily goals, and we need weekly, monthly, or annual
goals. If we get overwhelmed with the difficulty of annual goals, we should
always break them down into shorter term goals. These are easier to visualize
and are not so daunting to us. It helps soften the impact on our own spirit.
Our small accomplishments are stepping stones to our goals.
We must recognize our small accomplishments for what they are. Every small
accomplishment is important and vital to our own spirit and temperament.
Maintaining our spirit is important to our ability to reach further
accomplishments and our goals. Without celebrating these small accomplishments,
we may never achieve the goals that will mean our overall success.
Goals must be attainable when they are originally written.
Writing down goals means that we have committed to accomplishing them, that
they are important and vital to us, and that they are seen as the building
blocks of our success. Being able to mark written goals off is very therapeutic
for a business person. It allows us to celebrate these accomplishments in a way
that reinvigorates us and gives us the impetus to move forward toward further
success.
Is it possible to have a bad day that would normally
negatively impact our spirit and impede our forward motion to business success
and still have small accomplishments that will refresh our resolve? Yes, most
definitely small accomplishments may happen at the same time when other
negative events loom over us. They will soften the blows of these negative
events and will strengthen us.
Of course, if we suffer failures in our daily lives and the
goals that we plan on accomplishing, we must never let those failures
overshadow the objectives that we have in our overall goals or even in the
smaller ones that would lead to our main objectives. We must have the resolve
to see the process through to the end result and move on to the end game, the
main goals of our business.
Goals should be written in pencil, not carved in granite.
They must be adaptable to events that are out of our control and must be able
to be revised as needed. We may see something that should make us change our
goals and accomplish more than we ever thought before. Who knows; maybe we might
be more successful through adaptability than we ever dreamed when we wrote our
goals originally.
As business people we must never allow the events of an
individual day, or even one hour, to make us give up and abandon our dreams. “Never
quit on a bad day” is not just a saying to raise our spirits. It should be a
philosophy and mantra for our success over the long haul. We should be better
than allowing small events to drive us to failure. Please leave me your
comments here, or email me at Jim@SOC4Now.com, or call me at 360-314-8691.
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