Do you have a plan to learn?

“The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.”

Robin Sharma

Where do you want to be one year from today? What is the gap between where you want to be and where you currently are? Do you have a personal development plan to close that gap? Do you have a prioritized list of books to read, podcasts to listen to, and online courses to sign up for? Perhaps more importantly, have you scheduled the time to do these things? Is it on your calendar daily, weekly or monthly? If the answer to any of the questions is “no, ” what are you waiting for? Success is on the other side of hard work.

“But I don’t have time to do these things!” 

It is easy to let our time be an asset we don’t manage. So easy to watch one more episode of the latest show on Netflix. So easy to skip the hour you have set aside to read to handle urgent but unimportant emails or tasks. Doing those things might be fun or necessary, but they aren’t helping you grow. If you want to be better, different, or more successful, you must invest the time. Schedule the time. Start with something simple, but schedule it. Plan your work so you can work your plan.  

Next, find a mentor, ask them for one book to read, and then do it. It’s your life you are managing; manage it. Finally, ask yourself, on August 8th, 2022, how much will I have grown? The time is going to pass; use it wisely and with intent.

The four questions of growth…

“Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.”

Robin Sharma

What happened?

What did you learn?

What opportunities have been created?

How are you going to solve them?

Finishing strong today sets up tomorrow…

“Starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic.”

Robin Sharma

When you think about it it is easy to start strong.  There is excitement for something new, a focus on starting a new adventure, etc.  But after a few weeks or months things slow down.  The pace drops off.  That’s when the real work, the real power of focus begins.  

Without a strong finish, everything else is really meaningless.  Well, maybe not meaningless, but certainly greatly diminished.  The power of a strong finish doesn’t just impact whatever the current project or initiative is though.  It sets the tone for the next one.  It builds a platform of performance that you and your team can use to leverage for the next time.  Finishing strong today isn’t just about today, it is about the future.

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