A good business plan (see earlier post) is a great base, but we can lose focus, so a good strategy for our week is valuable.
This is a tool to help to guide your efforts and align them with your business plan. But, of course, if the plan is excellent and the action isn't happening .... there is usually some thinking and emotion along the way.
It might be - "This is too hard", "I'm not ready yet", or "I don't know how."
Each thought seems so genuine. We think that we don't have time and our focus is not working when we do a plan, and it doesn't work. We believe we are not organised enough and should be able to get more done.
However, our business facts are neutral, including numbers and tasks done or not done. Everything else is our thoughts which drive our emotions - this is the work of weekly planning to bring up the thoughts and the actions and compare them.
Reflection is a practice of using our most valuable resource other than ourselves. Time.
We can use the time to make now and the future evolves far beyond what is currently possible for us. We have thought about the 10-year plan. We can explore that with you individually, as today we just had a taste of our impact and destination. It's exciting when we take our brains into the future and possibilities!
We have 65,000 thoughts a day. Imagine if we can focus even 5% of that brainpower and emotional energy into our available time.
Focus is when our attention flows in the direction we want to take it. Lost focus is when we become fixated or drift from our future direction. We lose attention and hence our focus on what matters to us.
We all lose impact with our available time. Well, the good news is that …. It's not the events, tasks, people, or situations we end up in that lose us impact. They are all just neutral.
We have the power to make choices that take us to what we want in our hearts. Distinguishing those choices is what brings us forward faster…. Slow down to go fast.
Contact us if you want help working on your weekly or business plan. We can help with some perspective.