What's Standing in your Way?

When you look at the things you want and how you’d like your life to be, if you had to guess, what is standing in your way?

Let me go back a couple of steps. What do you want to be doing in sales monthly a year from now? You have a goal, don’t you? It’s written down, isn’t it? And you have a date when you want to accomplish it, right? Well if you don’t, you’ll now take some time and write those goals down, as specifically as you can. And you’ll put a date by when you want to make it happen.

What is it you want? A family vacation to Disney World, an earlier retirement, financing your kids’ education, house renovations? If you can dream is it possible you can work to make it happen?

Okay now . . . Take a look at where you want to be in twelve months. Take a look at where you are now. What’s standing in your way from making it happen? What do you need to overcome, start doing better or what do you have to stop doing to accomplish these goals? Let’s not get confused about lots of hard work or the market, the competition or the economy. Let’s focus on what we can control—mostly the behaviours you do every day, every week and the attitudes and beliefs that guide your actions.

When you take control of your behaviour you take control of your destiny. When you own the responsibility for your production, your goal accomplishment, and your achievements, you no longer have anyone else to blame for your lack of achievement.

Tape your goals to your mirror where you’ll see them every morning and every evening. At the same time you can say hello to the person who is responsible for making them happen.