Today is the first of July.
The year is half-gone, but rather than look back at what you may not have done that you intended to do in the first half of 2013, be here now and, if anything, look forward.
I know whereof I speak, as they say: my first half of the year has not been what I hoped in some respects. There are some things I meant to get done that I didn’t do, some things I had no control over that impacted the bottom line, some things not started. This is all pretty normal, but in looking back it’s easy to get sucked into the negative of “failure” if you are not careful. Instead, I suggest recognizing the past but, like one does in meditation, see it for what it is (the past) and bring your focus back into the present.
Now is, well, now. It’s a clean slate. Just as you are the sum of your experiences to this moment but can’t go back and change any of them, so it is for your business. Everything from the past has informed the present; but, it all remains in the past–done deal. Over. Right now, you are in control and you get to choose what to do with the next 2 minutes/hours/days/years/decades of your (business) life.
Today is the first day of the month, first day of the work week, first day of the second half of the year. Today you can do whatever you choose to make it the first day of a better second half of 2013. Starting from now, this moment, make a choice to do something that would be positive for your business or choose not to do something negative that you have been doing. Choose to do things like (and the dates/days are only there to show you how to fame these active goals):
- to start doing all your paperwork for the week (invoicing, paying bills, etc.) on Wednesday mornings
- to shoot for yourself every Thursday afternoon
- to call 3 targets a week on Tuesday mornings
- to let go of trying to please those lowball clients you actually hate working for
- to turn OFF your computer at 6pm every day
- to blog every Friday
- to register your copyrights every month on the 15th
- to read a book just for the pleasure of informing your mind (that is not for work)
- to stop hating that guy who gets the fabulous projects even though his work is only meh
- to say no to at least one thing that you know is bad for you every day (like taking that project you will hate)
- to give yourself time off (totally off)…
You get the point.
You are in control of what you do now. You always have choices but sometimes we forget that as we get caught in the panic of what we call our busy lives today. Even when you feel like you are drowning in the list of stuff you should have done already this year, you have total control–because you can choose to be present, to be here now, and to make choices about what to do next.
Today is the first. What shall you make of it?