What are you doing today?
Working? That's great!
Sales call? Even better!
Do you even know what you are doing today?
Do you have a plan or are you living the Que Sera Sera life?
Yes, anyone in Generation "X", "Y" or "Z" won't feel me, but anyone born before 1982 will remember Doris Day's song...what does it mean?
"Whatever will be...will be".
The old-schoolers in the house will know that Doris Day's mother in the song was referring more to love and destiny - who knows what the future will bring is the theme.
As poetry, it is a beautiful sentiment, but as a way of life for a sales professional...it is deadly!
Each day you have to have an agenda of what your day will hold. You have to know in dedicated blocks how you are going to utilize the precious commodity of time.
"Failing to plan is planning to fail"
Alan Lakein
Each day contains 24 hours, each hour is 60 minutes and each minute is 60 seconds. Each one of those seconds is a potentially life altering moment. No, I am not being dramatic. Each second matters...
In a second...you could decide to hit the snooze button and decide to skip the gym...again.
In a second...you could internalize the bad call you just had and decide to call it a day...at 2pm
In a second...you could see your golf clubs in the corner and decide to call
your buddies for a round...Monday morning.
What is the common theme above?
Activities take minutes and hours...and days...
Decisions take seconds.
What really drives your path to success is not actitivities...it is decisions. A daily plan means your decisions are already made for you. If you break them, it is an blatant disobedience of what YOU have defined as the necessary tactics for your success.
So for the next few Daily Crumbs, I am going to spend some time...talking about time.
Take 3 seconds and decide you are going to be a better time manager.
3...2...1
Great...but for one more day...
Que Sera Sera!
Until 86,400 seconds from now, I wish you Money, Power, Success!
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