Over the
years I have developed strategies for success by carefully emulating people
greater than myself. By reading hundreds of biographies of great men and also
working closely with numerous millionaires I noted one trait they all have in
common.
They
DISCIPLINED themselves to accomplish ONE BIG THING every day that would have a
profound effect on their lives.
Most people
do not run their lives like this. They allow themselves to get bogged down with
trivia and at the end of every day they haven’t moved forward, most just
managing to keep their heads above water; many living lives in quiet
desperation.
You may want
to start by accomplishing ONE BIG THING every week and if you start to be honest
with yourself the ONE BIG THING that needs doing will be apparent.
It could be
that you actually have to put an advert in the paper to search out and locate an
employee that will take on a massive workload of admin or bookkeeping or
appointment setting. Maybe this had been put off because you thought you
couldn’t afford such a person. The
people who do ONE BIG THING know they can’t afford not to. The people who do
ONE BIG THING every day move ahead in leaps and bounds.
You may write
a book to increase your profile and credibility. Most people have a book inside
them but never get around to writing it. My books have created fabulous incomes
for me both in royalties, but even more importantly and lucratively, via
creating credibility and awareness for consultancy income.
You may have
to track down a database that will change your life…do it now. Maybe your ONE
BIG THING is to get a £5k or £10k credit card that will allow you to attend a
seminar or workshop that will change your life. Maybe your ONE BIG THING is to
totally change direction. Maybe you need to wine and dine a most important
person, perhaps the one you has given you the most referrals in the past year or
two and see what you can do in return…for even more business. Don’t put of
the phone call…just do ONE BIG THING. Maybe your ONE BIG THING is to stop
drinking, stop watching the soaps, womanising or taking drugs. I don’t know.
Everyone is different. All I do know is the people who may it BIG in life do
whatever it takes. They know that no one else can make the changes for them.
Doing ONE BIG THING can bring massive results, change, wealth and happiness into your life. Small moves don’t bring anything except more of the same.
I make a point of accomplishing ONE
BIG THING every day. And even now I still have to overcome laziness, call
reluctance, a full agenda, a young family (my beautiful Romanian wife is only
thirty two and our baby daughter Kay is nearly five) demanding clients who have
powerful and demanding agendas of their own. I would find it very easy to do all
the small things and miss out on the ONE BIG THING.
The word
self-sacrifice comes into play and over the years I have missed many parties, TV
programmes, shows, football matches, drinking bouts, social gatherings and
family get togethers…but by hook or by crook I manage to do ONE BIG THING!
You can’t
possibly do it all. Something has to give. I have noted that famous TV stars are
not watching TV, but they are creating the programmes that others watch. Famous
authors are not reading books; they are creating and writing books for others to
read.
However,
before I gave up reading and started writing I did read a number of self-help
and non-fiction books that had a profound affect on my life. One of these was
Parkinsons Law: ‘Work expands to fill the time available for its
completion.’ (particularly paperwork) and I read this tiny book over a hundred
times.
I realised that if I left all my paperwork until the end of the week or even the end of two weeks I could catch it all up to date in one mammoth concentrated effort on a Sunday afternoon…thereby freeing off many hours for selling and accomplishing BIG THINGS that would make quantum leaps for me in my life. No longer would I be able to use the excuse that paper work takes up all my time because I realised it I can and will take up all the amount of time you allow it to…OR NOT.
To do ONE BIG
THING, you must make time to allow yourself the luxury of being able to carry it
out and carry it off. The ONE BIG THING will be apparent very quickly. All you
have to do, for once in your life, is to do the ONE BIG THING and then repeat
the trick on a weekly basis and then on a daily basis. You’ll never regret it!
I celebrate the fact everyday that I do ONE BIG THING! Whether I am ready or
not, too busy, too tired or just plain lazy. I do ONE BIG THING regardless of
EVERYTHING else! And I do mean EVERYTHING!
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