Start Where You Are
Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is off to a great start.
I’m in my first month of exercising after major foot surgery. Nothing like having your tendon cut from a bone and anchored into another! I’ve never been more grateful to walk on two feet. Every day I make progress and am committed to getting back to where I used to be.
It’s been a long journey of figuring out what was wrong and now healing, but it’s also taught me many lessons.
Like I wrote about recently, we always have a choice on how we see situations!
Second is this lesson:
Start Where You Are
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
~Arthur Ashe
We all start somewhere.
And there are two things I often hear when talking about what to do next in business:
- The first is that I have to be ready and have all the things in place!
- The second is that there is so much to do I end up stuck because I don’t know what to do first because I can never get it all done!
If you are telling yourself one of those two things above, you’re never going to reach what you are aiming for.
Forget about what happened in the past, the client you didn’t get, the failed launch, or maybe even the fight with your spouse that is keeping you distracted.
The list could go on and on…
But really that’s just you giving excuses.
Suck it up and start where you are!
You will NEVER really feel ready…
And you will ALWAYS have things that need to be done…
But if you don’t start now, you will never reach your dreams and goals!
Here’s what I want you to do:
- Think of one thing you want to accomplish this week, ONLY one! This could be to get a new client, to put together your service packages, outline a new program, anything.
- Now, take a piece of paper and write that one thing down. No matter how tempted, do NOT write down more.
- Next, make a list of the 10 actions you can take this week starting today to make it happen.
- Last, do at least 3 of those 10 items each day! Do these things first before all the other stuff. Yes, those emails sitting in your inbox CAN wait until this is done every day.
What I want you to realize is that things don’t happen by doing nothing. You must consistently work towards what you want if you are serious about seeing your dreams turn into reality.
If you are stuck on this exercise, send me an email, and let me know your one thing, and I will help you brainstorm the 10 items to make it happen 🙂
And if you rocked this exercise, I’d still love for you to send me an email and share what your one thing is! I want to support you in reaching your dreams.
