There are many pieces to the puzzle in achieving success. All the great business leaders tell us in their books that there are several things you need to do each and every day to achieve success. Much of the Goal Setting advice we read about advices us to break down the goal into achievable stages. Does it not make sense to put these achievable stages as priority items. In the world I grew up in priority items went to the top of the list.
Would it not make sense if you are a list writer to put your have to items down in order of importance. While you were writing your goals did you list the things you want in life first or list in order the things you need to do to get what you want in life. I expect you can see where I am going with this, so why don't we tackle these things head on knowing it's important to achieving our goals and objectives.
I can say many of the years of my life as a business owner had a large sales component in my daily activity. There were days that the phone weighed a 100 pounds. Later today or tomorrow I would say. When I look back at those times they were usually accompanied by weak sales performance. The same can be said for business owners and managers who have customer accounts that are slipping past due. Putting the have to on the top of the list inspires us to pick up that heavy phone receiver and make the call. Both of these scenarios fit into the have to Category. So picture this if you will. Your tackling the "Have to" things every day find your goals and objectives beginning to take shape. You are starting to see the rewards. Can you see my point now that it will be easy to transition the "Have To" to the "Choose To" in your life. The pain associated with the have to slowly slips away.
As silly as this may seem I expect all of you have heard a friend tell you they had to go to a party tonight and another one on the weekend. Give me a break. No one has to go to a party. We choose to. Life is so much about the language we use. Have to sounds like something we have been ordered or told to do. We take ownership with choose to.
So there is a bonus to doing the hard stuff first. The rest of the day will be a breeze comes to mind. If you do it first then you may not have to face the dilemma of tackling it tomorrow. Putting the hard, have to stuff at the bottom of the list is just straight out procrastination. One of my favorite authors Jack Canfield with Mark Victor Hansen became famous for the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series. Mr Canfield wrote about the 130 rejections while looking for a publisher. A yes finally came after some creative activities. The book went on to sell 8 million copies. Yes this story fits into the persistence category but I expect all those asks were on top of the choose to list. Can you imagine how easy it would have been for Jack to put those asks to the bottom of the list. The book of his I like the most is "The Success Principals". in Chapter 15 titled " "Feel the Fear and do It anyway" Fear lives in the have to. Happiness lives in the choose to. Have to things being attended to on a regular basis slip in to the choose to before you know it. These activities now become habit forming. In my opinion habits don't fall into the things we don't like to do. Consider this quote from the famous author Mark Twain. " I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened".
Call it what you will. Have To or Choose To. It has to get done. Your future success is dependent on doing these things. In my view it's more fun doing the "Choose to" things in our lives. Just ask away with gusto. A Yes awaits you.
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