2-3-4 Friday

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Done and almost done has a big difference. It’s the difference between ideas and reality. Between dreams and impact. Between fake and real.

Think about the last time you started something, but didn’t finish it. Or even now at work, you’re close to finishing a project, but you’re losing steam. You want to abandon it.

There’s such a big difference between starting and finishing something.

Most of us know that. Deep down. We know that there’s a difference between a 99% done and 100% done.

Why don’t we get things done? There are many reasons.

But the biggest reason is because we are scared. We are not just scared of failure.

We are scared of success.

We wonder what would really happen if the little idea that we had really changed the world and forced us to give up our jobs, our way of life, our now.

We find ourselves dreaming so much of the success that we forget that to get there really requires us to work hard. You don’t get success, you build it. Often we want the success without realising the cost of success.

That requires us to keep pushing even when the 1% between 99 to 100 takes longer than it took to get to 99.

But trust me, the difference between a 99 and 100 is huge.

1 talk

Many times, we want to get the success, the business, without realising that the only way there is to build it. From the ground up.

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How do you push through when the going gets tough?

One way? ignore motivation. Don’t depend on motivation. Depend on discipline. Discipline forces you to show up at your work desk, to write, work, create, whatever it is you do. Success is showing up. Then you may ask,

How do you get discipline?

Just do the small actions that lead you there. For me, it’s about taking a shower, and then putting on nice office clothes, heading out to write, and put in a shift even though I know that I could stay at home to write.

The other way is to use stakes. Put skin in the game.

Something that changed the way I worked recently was hiring an intern. Realising that I had to pay his salary, that putting food on his table was dependent on me consistently getting revenue into the company, forced me to stop thinking about what to do, but to get things done.

You can pay money to hire a coworking space. Pay an intern to get the work you don’t want to do done.

The last part of getting to the end, is not fancy pansy visualisation a la Rhonda Byrne, but actually knowing your top priorities. What are you focused on? Focusing on 12 different things is a guaranteed way for you not to get things done.

Focus on the one thing, and get it done to 100%. Even if it fails.

P.S. Want to think differently about a problem you're facing? Let’s chat (and no worries, there's no fee!)

John

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