If you've been reading any of my blogs then you know I was trying something out with an accountability test. For those of you who don't know, here's the basics of what I was trying to do.
- A few times a year I write down my activities every 15 minutes or so. Am I on point? Am I focused? It really helps to see if I am.
- Twitter is still something relatively new to me and I had the same opinion as my wife about it, "going out the door... sticking keys into car...wondering why the door is still unlocked...." Doesn't really sound like a productive tool, but it can be.
- An older blog post inspired the idea of accountability or rather renewed it.
So the goal was to combine those two into a longer blog post and see what happened. For a recap of the day's activities go here:
- Day One - Goals, Calls and Catching Up!
- Day Two - Getting Out there and rolling with Life!
- Day Three - Life Happens! Lead Generation is Still Most important activity
- Day Four - Did someone say networking!?
- Day Five- Sometimes Life happens more than once a week
So what did I learn?
The biggest take away I have is that I can plan for the best week possible and strive to achieve it but I really need to learn to "roll" with the punches. Being able to shift, whether it's the market, my schedule, my goals or my life is going to determine my feelings of success on any given day.
Some other quick tips:
- E-mail can be a distraction
- Having the internet up during call time can be distracting
- Not having a plan before the day starts can really suck the energy out of the day
- Affirmations work
- Colds can affect performance
- Every day at work is a performance, like GAME DAY for an athlete
Thanks for taking the time to post this ... excellent information