5 Things For Everyday

byHamish58

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Updated 5 years ago

Kia Ora, from New Zealand Friends and colleagues.

Tonight I wanted to suggest 5 things we might all think about every day in order to move our businesses on here at WA.

1. Plan Your Time Wisely

There is a military saying that time spent in reconnaissance is never wasted. What this means is that if you plan and organise your activities you will gain greater benefit than making it up as you go along because you will be more focused and more productive.

I typically plan all my writing, for the coming week, on the weekend. I will even go as far as to have all my titles, and the writing skeletons done, in site content, as per the guidance in my recently published training resource Planning and Writing a Blog Post. I find that this really does make the best of my time and keeps me super productive and focused.

2. One Business Activity Each Day

Many years ago while involved with another entrepreneurial business venture I was taught to do at least one thing every day in my business in order to move it forward and keep me engaged.

In this business that could be any number of things such as;

• Research
• Planning
• Writing
• Post maintenance
• Training for a new skill to apply to our business

There are a range of others that you can probably think of as you read this. The point is that all of them are about 'moving the needle forward on your business meter'.

The consequence of not doing this for many is to gradually find excuses not BWO do anything and the fall away, lose interest and the result is inevitable.

So even if you only have 10 minutes to spare for your business invest that 10 minutes in moving the needle in some way.

3. Resist Temptation

Shiny object syndrome is a killer in this business. I was struck by something which Jay (Magistudios) said in his webinar this week. If he finds a plugin, widget or app that works he stays with it and avoids being distracted by the latest-greatest thing. No need to go chasing after stuff that takes time and distracts from the basics of business building. I guess he knows what he is stalking about huh?

4. Pay It Forward

It is a rule of mine to find a minimum of 10 minutes every day to give back or pay forward. I do this for a number of reasons:

• I believe in encouraging and helping others just because it is the right thing to do
• Helping others actually makes you feel good about yourself
• Helping others encourages others to be helpful in turn and promotes good community
• I believe if you help others you will always find help when you need it too

5. Be Your Best Version of You

The first four contribute to the 5th. I had a great childhood and I had the most wonderful parents. Within the values that they passed on to me and I have passed on to my own children is the all important, be true to yourself and be the best version of you that you can be.

This will pay you in all endeavours of life and people will respect you and gravitate towards you and you will be successful in whatever occupation, career or activity you wish to pursue.

I hope as always that these nuggets help and inspire you on your WA journey and that you can make them available in some way to those who follow behind you into this adventure.

With that I bid you all good night, from New Zealand stay safe and well.

Kia Koa

Kia Kaha

Hamish 🧐