Success means Gettin’ Er Done
Jason Christianson, me, Mike Dillard, & Jim Yaghi
I love Larry the Cable Guy , I think he is a riot! This is not about Larry the Cable Guy , though he is obviously a very successful person. He is doing what he loves and making a lot of people happy and making a lot of money. Pretty cool. One of my business mentors, Mike Dillard, sent out a great e-mail today and I wanted to share it here today. We are part of the Magnetic Sponsoring program which has been instrumental in helping us build one of our income streams. He talks about a secret software that he used to build his empire but more importantly is how he uses it to take action in his business that it is even more important.
Here is an excerpt from his e-mail in his words…
“When I look out across this industry, I see two kinds of people…
Those who have made “execution” a daily habit, and those who have not.
Here’s what I mean by that…
Many close friends and associates have noticed that I’ve acquired one particular trait over the years which has enabled me to achieve some incredible things.
It’s not that I’m smarter than anyone else, or that I’ve had better opportunities, or that I’ve had more money to start with, (which was definately no the case).
They all say it comes down to one thing… “Mike, what makes you different than everyone else out there is that once you have an idea, you actually sit down and do it”.
To be honest, that never really occurred to me, and it made me stop and really think. I just took it for granted that if you have a great idea, you freaking do it right?
But most people don’t. They have an incredible idea and think about doing it. Day’s go by. Weeks go by. Months go by. Before they realize it, they’re still sitting in the same position they were a year before.
I don’t think about things, I do them.
I have an idea, and I execute that idea one little step at a time, each and every day until the project is complete.
Success is not a destination it’s the result of a pattern of habitual behaviors.
That’s why you can take someone who’s had a track record in one field, and move them to another with the expectation that success will be achieved again.
It’s not the job, the business opportunity, the new marketing system, or the product that resulted in their success… It was their daily habits. They were “do-ers”.
Their are successful people and unsuccessful people in every company- all using the same tools, the same websites, and the same system.
The difference is found in their daily habits.
So how can you transistion from a “thinker”, to a “do-er”?”
This is where he talks a little bit about the secret software which is actually “WordPad”, which is also known as NotePad if you are using a pc. If you are a MAC user like myself it is called TextEdit. It’s a little program that opens up to a blank white page and just stares at you with a blinking cursor at the top. If you do a lot of internet marketing , this is the program that you use to write your copy in and then you paste it into your applications. It is just like having a notepad on your desk.
So Mike says it should be our new boss. Every night before we go to bed, we need to write down five tasks that we must complete the following day in order of importance. We can save it with whatever file name we want…
If we do that before we go to bed then our subconscious will have all night to think about it.
The moment we wake up the next day , we will be on task. We already know what our goals are. We are focused , and by starting the day with focus and purpose that’s already laid out, it will allow us to ignore the onslaught of distractions that come with each new morning.
Now I know for a fact that this will help me because I have ADD in a big way and tend to get distracted easily. And I specialize in internet marketing and believe me there is a lot of “noise” to get distracted by.
So here is the challenge he put out. Do this for the next 30 days, starting tonight. 5 tasks to on the list that you must COMPLETE by the next day. The key here , which feel is going to make this easier for me is that these must be actions “tasks” , not goals. I tend to be a “doer” so putting it into that context for me makes it smaller, almost more doable in my head already.
It makes sense because if we do the tasks then the goals will accomplished automatically.
So focus on the tasks that will result in that goal. Let’s do this for the next 30 days , and see if we make progress! I am going to start tonight. I am looking forward to hearing about everyone’s experience.
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