This is the battle cry of the ambitious and the driven.
Win The Day.
You may have heard that the best way to accomplish your goals is to reverse engineer the activity required to get there.
When you break that reverse engineering down to the most fundamental level, you’ll identify the critical few actions you need to take on a daily basis to ultimately reach your goal.
This isn’t about taking on so much work that you pray for a 36 hour day so you can get it all done.
It’s about identifying the critical few actions you need to do consistently to put yourself in the best possible position to reach your goals.
If your goal is to run a marathon and you’re not consistently running in the months, weeks and days leading up to the race, it is highly unlikely you’ll accomplish your goal.
What is the Big Hairy Audacious Goal you dream of accomplishing? This is often referred to as your BHAG and thinking about reaching this goal might make you uncomfortable.
What are the critical few actions you’ll need to do consistently to reach this goal?
If your goal is to lose 100 pounds, you can’t possibly do that in a single day or with one monumental effort. Achieving this goal requires consistent execution of very specific actions like exercising and eating in a caloric deficit.
You have to show up and Win The Day, one day at a time. You’ll need to stack your wins and create the momentum that helps to shift your identity into the type of person who makes it happen.
Because there’s no guarantee of a result every single day.
You won’t make the sale, get the promotion, achieve a personal record or lose weight every single day.
You can’t control the result…but you can control the effort.
If you’re committed to putting in the necessary work day after day, you massively shift the odds into your favor that you will see results.
Think of a time when you performed at your very best. What did that feel like? What did you do to allow yourself to perform at that level?
Maybe you ran your fastest mile in college. How were you training on a regular basis on the months, weeks and days leading up to that performance?
You may have been the top salesperson in your company last year but you’ve fallen off track this year. The seduction of success can make you relax and stop taking those critical few actions.
Are you still making the same number of contacts on a daily basis?
This is where life gets in the way. You become so busy that you lose focus on the compound effect of the critical few actions that actually inch you closer to reaching your goal.
Take the time to clearly identify the critical few actions you need to take in your life.
Everyone has different goals which require a different set of critical few actions. What do these look like for you?
What is the single most critical action you need to take on a daily basis in your professional life? This could be a certain number of contacts per day or working for 45 minutes uninterrupted on a specific project.
When you figure out what this is for you, write it down.
Now determine the single most critical action you need to take on a consistent basis in your personal life. This might be 10 minutes of uninterruped present time individually with each of your children and your spouse.
Again, when you figure out what this action is for you, write it down. It’s important to know what the actions are you need to take consistently.
When you have these critical few actions identified, you now have your personal recipe for how to Win The Day.
Commit to doing your personal best every single day. Even when life gets difficult (because you know it will), you’re still committed to doing these critical few actions.
This is how you build your self-confidence. It’s how you develop integrity with yourself. It’s how you achieve your biggest goals.
This is how you Win The Day.
