Spring Into Action
With spring in the air, it’s time to spring into action. Last month I wrote about what are we doing now to have future growth. What is our game plan to grow our skills, business, relationships, and ourselves? Knowing that plan, writing it down, and springing into action brings it to life.
I actually took my own advice and did this for myself and for the future growth of Repertoire and Share Moving Media. This took a huge weight off of me that I didn’t realize I was carrying around. Billy Harris, one of my mentors, used to tell us that “sometimes you need to step back and work on the business versus working in the business.” He would also follow up with “people only respect what you inspect.”
Let’s unpack those two statements. What is the difference between working on your business or your life versus working in them? It may sound obvious, but I think it’s worth stating. We all spend 99% of our time working day-to-day, whether it’s in business, relationships or self-growth. We do this because of deadlines, routines, checklists, etc. But what if you took 10-15% of that time and made a plan of ways to deepen your relationships and grow your skills, or your business? Then you incorporated that plan into your daily routine. My belief is it could be life-changing and rewarding.
The key is once you have the plan and start working it into your daily life, you must use the second component of inspecting what you added. Is it working? Can I see growth? Am I learning a new skill? Are my relationships improving? If yes, then keep doing it and keep inspecting. If no, then tweak your plan and inspect until you see the results you want.
The key to both is you must spring into action for either of them to benefit you. This spring, along with clearing out the clutter in your life, think about adding a new plan that will benefit you ten-fold moving forward. Working on all aspects of your life is as important as living it.
Dedicated to the industry,
R. Scott Adams