Can’t Get Started In Business? Become Your Most Productive Self In 3 Easy Steps

If you can’t plan, commit and execute in business, then this article is for you. I experience this from time to time as well, it’s perfectly normal. In fact, once I didn’t make a video for four weeks.

Every time that happens, every time I don’t execute, I just think to myself: what are all the opportunities that I sacrificed to be here? What are all the jobs, and pretty damn good jobs, that I had to give up to be here? What about all the millionaire and billionaire clients that I can’t work with now? I gave up all the opportunities I had before me and choose instead to sit at home, work on my business and make this happen.

Thankfully, I can use all of that to motivate myself. I think about all the mentors that taught me and pushed me for all those years. I think about all the stuff that I promised myself I was going to do. All the businesses that I was going to start and all the people that I’m going to help.

So when I think about it, I know that if I’m not executing right now, I’m literally shitting on those dreams. That pain, it becomes much stronger than the pain of execution. I can tell you, once you get started, it’s a lot easier. Getting started is just the initial hurdle that you need to overcome. After that, it becomes a lot easier to do consistent work. If you can build up that momentum, and keep building that momentum over and over and over in your business, you can grow your business to almost any level.

1) Planning

When I was just starting out, I wrote everything down on a to-do list and adding things to my alarm clock. At the time, I wasn’t using a calendar or anything like that. Instead, I had recurring tasks and one day tasks that my alarm clock would remind me of.

This is good if you have fifteen things to do, but not one-hundred. Once you get to planning a week or two ahead on a recurring basis, that’s the next step. If you want to do that, then you need to start using Google Calendar. If you don’t use Google Calendar it becomes really messy. If you do use Google Calendar, you can have everything structured from day to day. You can have recurring tasks that come back every day, week or month. This will allow you to easily build your habits and build your business processes.

For example, during this time slot I do calls. Here’s where I talk to clients who I’ve already closed, and here’s where I work on a project.

In the beginning, maybe you want to plan out two or three different things. But ultimately, you want to end up planning your whole day. Right now, I have every single minute of every single day planned out. I don’t even know when to eat if my calendar doesn’t tell me to do it. Ultimately this is where you want to be.

Every single pro that I know, every single person I know who closes a lot of sales, has a calendar like this. They use Google Calendar or a different system, where they plan everything out. You can even use Evernote, where you can take notes in addition to planning your day.

So those are some tools and they work really great in terms of planning. It’s not rocket science, you just have to train yourself to implement and take action. You have to promise yourself that you will act on everything you have written down on your calendar. It’s just like what you did when you were in school.

2) Committing

In terms of commitment, there are lots of different personality types out there. There are lots of people and they have different ways that they are able to commit. Some people, when they commit and announce it on Facebook, they actually end up not doing it. That’s because they get instant validation from people liking their post, they feel like everyone knows that they’re going to be an entrepreneur, and then they go back to watching Game of Thrones.

That’s one type of person. A different type of person announces to all his friends that he’s going to be an entrepreneur, and then his friends start to demand action.

“Ok bro, so come one, where’s your business? What the fuck is this?”

These type of people get motivated just by the fact that they publicly announced it and now they are committed to doing it. They have to do it now, otherwise they’re going to get shit from their friends.

Those are the two main types of people out there in terms of commitment. What you need to do is figure out is which type are you. Have you announced stuff in the past and then not executed? Then you’re type A. If that’s not the case, then you’re type B. Whatever it takes to commit, that’s what you need to do. If you’re type A, don’t announce it to anyone but yourself. Write it on your wall, or use it as your phone background. Write the commitment down and work on it. Plan it out, and that’s really how you commit.

3) Execution

This is the most important part. Even if you don’t have anything planned out, and you’re barely committed, if you execute poorly it’s a lot better than not executing at all. Let’s be honest though, when most people start executing they do it poorly, especially in the beginning.

I was the same way. When I started I was terrible, the first two years didn’t go very well at all. But now I know what to do. I know what’s going to get results: this is how much of this I have to do, this is how much of this I have to do, and it just works.

This is the point where you want to get to. In terms of execution, there are many things that help. For example, having people around you who are doing something similar really helps. You are influenced by the five people closest to you and if they’re all hustling, you’ll naturally start to work hard too.

Another thing that helps with execution is absolute and complete focus. To start the business that I’m running now, I had to lock myself up in my room and execute for twelve to sixteen hours a day, for six months. In my situation, that’s what it took to get my business off the ground. I really wanted it to grow very fast, and to reach six figures in profit really quickly. So that’s why I worked so hard.

However, unlike me, you need to balance out this kind of focus. Otherwise your health suffers and you may experience other problems in your life. That being said, you need some focus. You need about eighty percent of your time going towards this new business, this new habit that you’re building.

If you have a full time job and can’t commit eighty percent of your time, you need to be investing at least twenty hours a week. It’s going to take you longer, but you’re still going to get there. Twenty hours a week, that’s the bare minimum to start a business.

The Three Parts

Those are the three parts of getting a business up off the ground: planning, commitment and execution. If you can get that handled, that’s how you get started.

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