As I see it, you have 2 choices as you head into this week.
1. You can just show up, be a robot, put out fires, and deal with whatever the week throws at you.
2. Or you can plan to have the best week and the best day ever with your program, recruiting, and career as a coach.
If your response to those choices was, “yeah right, I wish,” I imagine that your days are filled to the brim with people, texts, emails, and voice messages begging for your time, attention, and energy, which ultimately are taking you away from the work that will help you make the progress that you seek.
As you look back to the first month or 2 of this fall, would you say that you had more wins or losses for you each day work wise? By winning, I mean did walk into your office with a plan and then you dominated your day by actually getting your most important work done?
I would consider the day a loss if you found yourself giving your time, attention, and energy away freely to anybody who asked for it. And then before you knew it, your days were gone and you had no sense of accomplishment or progress.
If you are finding that more often than not, your days were on the frustrating side because you didn’t feel like you made any significant progress towards your vision and goals, it goes back at some point to how you are prioritizing things during those days.
How have you been doing in this department? Really think about it. Do you feel like you are proactive and in control of your days or do you just wake up and respond to everybody all day? Obviously as coaches, we have to be available to our team, staff, administration, and recruits, but not as much as you may think or are currently doing.
Today I want to teach you one new way to think about your prioritization. When you do a better job of prioritizing things, I know that you will find that you will start having more wins than losses day by day.
Stop prioritizing the easy. You know if you are guilty of prioritizing easy if your day feels like there is a whole lot of busy work but you don’t feel as if you’re spending a significant amount of time on work that can make your program better.
I’m sure that you probably intended to do a significant amount of high priority work before you got in the office. But you think that to get a great start to the day and to build some momentum, you will just get some of the easy things off of your to-list. And then what tends to happen is that you never ever really get around to doing work that will really move the needle for your program.
Coach, you set up your day. You can choose to do things first that will make a real difference in your program and could change your program for the better in a significant way.
Sure, those other things need to get done. But choose to do them only after you have spent at least 90 minutes on high priority things.
Stop prioritizing easy, “prioritize progress”. Things that matter to your program.
When you are planning your day, ask yourself, what 3 things must happen today that will get me some real movement forward? I want you to take on something hard every single day. If you do that you will start to find yourself getting a little bit more confident, more momentum, and more into that space where you’ll feel like you are doing things you were meant to do.
Good luck. If you try this out, please let me know how it goes.
Mandy Green
President Busy Coach
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