1st half of the year review - Contest
4th of July brings BBQ's, parades, celebrations, fireworks. It also brings the beginning of the second half of the year. A wise time to review one's 2016 goals and business plans. This is in answer to 'July 4th Contest - How is your business plan looking? ' This being an example only and not for AR points in the contest.
Early this year I made a concious decision to not make numbers my driving goals. # of listings. Volumn. New prospects. # of lead generation calls a day. I wanted to focus on 'habits' that would make me better, professionally and personally. I felt this would automatically lead to increased business.
With wanting new habits formed I focused on business related habits over personal. I knew trying too many at one time would have negative results.
2 maybe 3 maximum goals were to be focused on and considered achieved after 66 days successfully maintaining daily a specific task to form a new habit.
Debbie Gartner posed a question that 66 days seemed much longer than the 19 or 21 days she had heard it took to form a habit. That was a number I had heard for years as well. I have found that at 19 or 21 days a new daily task is just that. A daily task that you conciously know needs be done. By the end of 66 days it is becoming part of a subconcious daily routine. I also found that those new found habits are easy to let slip away.
And that is much of where my falling short is found. A habit that is started easily can drift away. Much quicker do they drift away than they are formed. An example of one of my successful habits that needs be improved upon? Journaling. I have successfully formed the habit of journaling everyday. I need improve upon that by making it one of the last things I do at the end of my day. Not just plop down and write a few words to be sure I have 'journaled'. So while yes a successful new habit, it is one that needs consistency in a different manner to improve its worth. A start though.
I was striving for 11 new habits this year. I have succeeded in 3. 5 started and made the 66 days to only then become spiratic or non existent. I have felt the positive impact on my business and me personally with new habits as my focus. I need now commit to this goal in earnest having seen and felt the positive energy it creates in and around me. I still have time to accomplish a good number of new habits and with it being half way thru the year I need put forth a very concentrated effort the rest of this year.
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Congratulations on your successes and I have no doubt that with the focus on where you want to improve means you will get them with your persistance.
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