When I spent an intense two-week stay in Shanghai, there to train a group of executives from India and South Africa, I awoke every morning to the view of a large park through the window of my hotel room. Each morning, hundreds of people gathered there to practice Tai Chi, to dance, jog, walk, exercise or simply fly a kite. I was very impressed by the individual and collective discipline of the Chinese people. It inspired me to join them and practice my Karate katas.
A year later, before the virus crisis, I returned to the park and found that many people I had met still went there daily. This illustrated the answer to a fundamental question I asked the business executives attending my workshop in China: How do you create success in a sustainable way?
The answer is simple: One day at a time. What ensures success? Your attitude, know-how, your discipline, and your persistence. More precisely, the secret lies in your determination to make every single day an amazing day.
How do I make every single day great?
Great days happen every once in a while. We want many more of those days. We want to deliberately plan each day so that by the end of the day, we can say: Wow, that was a very successful day!
Most people start work each day by focusing on urgencies, necessary tasks, or responding to solicitations from others. Unfortunately, for many, the day is structured by responding to email, unproductive meetings, babysitting colleagues, or simply going from task to task and developing a false sense of being productive. The instances when you say no, when you stop to clarify priorities or to question the real purpose of you are doing, are rare. This is nothing more than busy-ness, hardly a way to create your future.
Wouldn’t you like to change this around and do less while achieving more? I would like to to introduce to you a practice that my clients and I have been using for years to deliver amazing results.
Start practicing the Deliberate Morning Program from my best seller book What Color is Your Sky?
This is about making a conscious choice in how you live your life from now instead of letting others dictate how you live. The payoff can be life-changing, as a number of my clients have discovered. To achieve it, you need determination, to want to be responsible to make that choice, courage to take such a life-changing step and focus to sustain it going forward.
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