Stay Focused On Your Goals
12-04-08
It may seem hard to keep focused on your goals when reality gets in the way. You know the little (or big) things that lead you to do something else, than what you love to do or should be doing – be it work or personal priorities. Necessary things like doctor appointments or unexpected paperwork or a call from that important talent manager or agent. The kind of things that take you away from what you want or love to do.
Allocating time in the form of appointments or by blocking off a portion of each day for yourself, you will realize very quickly how much extra time you will have to deal with the things you want to do or should be doing. For many years I ensured that Monday mornings and Friday afternoons were for me to catch up on outstanding work related matters (especially Monday). While Friday afternoons allowed me to take the day off early (instant long weekend) or take a client for a late lunch or deal with a family matter or heaven forbid – work overtime.
You would be surprised how productive engaging with clients on some Friday afternoons can help with networking, solidifying business relationships, closing deals, plus is a great way to get to know the people you work with outside of an office environment.
Now don’t get me wrong. I am a self motivated productive worker and believe in getting things done. Many times I have put in 16 hours days and worked entire long weekends, without sleep, to prepare everything for a trade show or create a contract or an entertainment project deadline that the client decided was a rush-rush and needed to be moved ahead of schdule. Standard procedure in this industry.
If you don’t have written goals for your personal life, then get some on paper. You do this for business, so why wouldn’t it make sense to do it for yourself. Focus on what you love to do. Can’t find the time to play the piano and record the song you created that is in your head – do it! Want to learn something new – learn it. You need to figure out the things you love to do that you would do, even if you were not paid to do it. There is more to this life than money. Happiness has a value.
However, time is more valuable than anything. We all have only one life to live on this planet (usually under 100 years). Time you can’t save but it is most important how you spend it. Believe me, you don’t want to be in your seventies thinking, I wish I would have done this… or done that. I have yet to meet someone who says on their ninety-ninth birthday, “Boy I wish I could have put in more hours at the office.”
Block out time for important things now and take small steps to achieve the goals you have made. You can do it!
Stay Focused and remember – the harder you work at your goals, the easier it will be to attain them.
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