It’s beautiful outside and if you’re anything like me, you’re getting excited for summer right around the corner. It’s so easy to get distracted and to hit that wall at work, so here are 3 questions to ask yourself today, to push through that stall wherever you may work.
Good morning everyone, Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose.
It’s natural that around April 15, you’ve mowed your grass a couple of times, spring break just passed, you hopefully paid your taxes and you got your first taste of the summer lifestyle. And then just like that… it’s Monday… yet again!
You lose motivation, your problems start to feel magnified as if they will never change and you feel less and less inclined to put in the work to actually change them!
Am I alone in feeling this way? I don’t think so.
So I want you to write down the 3 questions I’m going to give you today and find some time to think about them. Hopefully, it’s right after we finish, because you and I both know there’s a fire burning in your business the second you stop this video and if you don’t stop to process now, you may never get around to it.
So how do we push through? How do we collect ourselves and commit ourselves to doing work that matters and rising above the chaos? Well, here are 3 questions to help get you on the right track.
What gets you out of bed in the morning to do what you do?What’s your why? Capturing why you wake up and go to work is essential to recapturing that fire in your belly again! And hear me say this. It probably has very little to do with what you do in your day to day. There’s a why behind it all that fuels that work and keeps you going.
2 weeks ago I spent a long time working with some clients of mine who do heavy install work with commercial kitchens. We wrote and wrote and wrote and finally arrived at this… we exist to provide solutions, serve our customers, and set the standard. BOOM! When it was written, we all kind of took a deep breath and said, yep that’s it. You’ll notice that the things that get them excited have very little to do with commercial kitchen installs. But their why resides in being a resource for solutions, service, and being an industry leader by setting the bar.
It pushed them to dive back into team meetings and trainings and hiring because they finally realized what they want it their work. That’s powerful and you need to spend some time thinking through your why!
2. What do I need to delegate today to make time for things only I can do?
So often we’re weighed down by things we need to get rid of. Sometimes it’s us not trusting and training our team around us, other times we’ve just don’t even realize it’s something we can finally let go of. But what things bring you energy that you need to spend more time doing!?! What things will make you feel like you’re gaining ground instead of just trudging along. There’s a great tagalong question for this… ask who not how. Don’t ask, how do i do that… ask who do I need to do this.
Believe it or not, there are people who love bookkeeping, who love invoicing, who love estimating, who want to run errands and help with logistics! There are people uniquely wired to love the parts of your business, you find miserable… so ask who, not how. That’s the key.
3. What gains have I made?
There’s a fantastic book called the Gap and the Gain, where they discuss a lot about what high performers do differently to realize happiness. Instead of focusing on the Gap between where they are and where they want to be, they focus on the gain from where they were to where they are. It’s one of the main reasons we have “Write it down” as a core value. It provides so much energy to teams when they realize how far they’ve come!
Instead of constantly focusing on the negative, how far you have to go, you look back for a period of time and celebrate the journey you’ve been on. There’s always a higher mountain peak to climb, but the process must be celebrated or else you turn into a numb, bitter, end goal-oriented business with no life. What gains have you made? It’s powerful
So, stop what you’re doing for 5 minutes and ask yourselves these 3 questions…
What gets you out of the bed in the morning to do what you do? What do I need to delegate today to make time for things only I can do? What gains have I made?Those questions will frame your week in the proper perspective and get you fired up to keep moving forward…and get unstuck!
I hope you enjoy! Have a great day
