Dave Facer is an old classmate of mine at Villanova. We reconnected a few years ago at the San Diego Chapter of the Villanova University Alumni Association. Dave's a life coach and performance consultant, in San Diego. This good piece of advice came from his website (www.ActivatePotential.com):
I am not the least bit interested in your resolutions. I want to see
your plans and evidence of what FDR called, direct, vigorous action!
Show me your calendar with
your goals broken down into daily tasks. Show me your budgets with
allocations by month for those tasks that require money to be spent.
Show me your hour blocks that dedicate your time to working on those
tasks. Show me the calendars, budgets, and time blocks of key
colleagues/partners/teammates who are working with you on accomplishing
your important goals. Those are the things I want to see!
I whole-heartedly agree. Here's what I will do in 2009:
My action plan is so simple it’s stoopid.
The challenge, as always, is consistently implementing it.
Time-blocking three hours a day, four days a week, should get it done.
2008 was a great year for “lead generation”. I amassed over 2000
contacts on various social media. While it has resulted in business,
more consistent phone conversations, combined with systematic e-mail newsletters,
will have a much better result.
My game is a contact sport so all I want to do, in 2009, is:
1- speak with 20 new people each week.
2- speak with 20 referral partners each week.
3- speak with 20 past clients, asking for business and/or referrals, each week.
That’s 15 calls daily, four days a week; plenty of time for play if you think about it.
Of course, I’ll want to measure activity and results, too
Friend and BloodhoundBlog colleague Chris Johnson passes along some advice from Joe Paterno:
We all have built in excuses to fail, to screw up. Our parents to
and peers were let us off the hook. In our culture, nothing is ever
“our fault.” Now, I’m 31, and I’ve never t hit on all cylinders for
very long. I’ve had myself committed to being uncommitted. That way, I never measure myself against anyone.
Most people are just resting on imaginary laurels!
That’s all it is, man, and people do it all the time. You have to earn
the position you’re in day by day, moment by moment. You’ve gotta
engage yourself, to see how far you can go. Accept the fact that you’re
always gonna have people left that are luckier, smarter, richer, more
equipped than you. Get over that–let your ego go, and then spend the
time maximizing YOUR talent.
“And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required” Luke 12:48
If you’re reading this, you’re in the “much is given category.”
You’ve got intellect, you understand a lot. You’re going to either make
ultimate use of your talents…or you’re going to waste them. Your ego
can be a bitch. It’s easier–mentally–to be disengaged from your life,
to wear the “gen-x” slacker/underachiever mantle. It’s easier to scoff
at people.
Sage advice from two friends and mentors: one I"ve known for 25 years and one I've known, only through online communications, for less than 25 months.
Thanks fellas.
My action plan is so simple it’s stoopid. The challenge, as always, is consistently implementing it. Time-blocking three hours a day, four days a week, should get it done.
2008 was a great year for “lead generation”. I amassed over 2000 contacts on various social media. While it has resulted in business, more consistent phone conversations, combined with systematic e-mail newsletters, will have a much better result.
My game is a contact sport so all I want to do, in 2009, is:
1- speak with 20 new people each week.
2- speak with 20 referral partners each week.
3- speak with 20 past clients, asking for business and/or referrals, each week.
That’s 15 calls daily, four days a week; plenty of time for play if you think about it.
Of course, I’ll want to measure activity and results, too
Friend and BloodhoundBlog colleague Chris Johnson passes along some advice from Joe Paterno:
We all have built in excuses to fail, to screw up. Our parents to and peers were let us off the hook. In our culture, nothing is ever “our fault.” Now, I’m 31, and I’ve never t hit on all cylinders for very long. I’ve had myself committed to being uncommitted. That way, I never measure myself against anyone.
Most people are just resting on imaginary laurels!
That’s all it is, man, and people do it all the time. You have to earn the position you’re in day by day, moment by moment. You’ve gotta engage yourself, to see how far you can go. Accept the fact that you’re always gonna have people left that are luckier, smarter, richer, more equipped than you. Get over that–let your ego go, and then spend the time maximizing YOUR talent.
“And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required” Luke 12:48
If you’re reading this, you’re in the “much is given category.” You’ve got intellect, you understand a lot. You’re going to either make ultimate use of your talents…or you’re going to waste them. Your ego can be a bitch. It’s easier–mentally–to be disengaged from your life, to wear the “gen-x” slacker/underachiever mantle. It’s easier to scoff at people.
Sage advice from two friends and mentors: one I"ve known for 25 years and one I've known, only through online communications, for less than 25 months.
Thanks fellas.