Live Better with Willie Jolley: Summer Ends and Your New Year Begins
Summer Ends and Your New Year Begins
By Willie Jolley
One of my mentors in the speaking and training business was the late, great Ray Pelletier. Ray was known as the king of coaching college coaches on how to win, and win big in life and in football! He was author of the book, Permission to Win.
One of his techniques for winning was to tell people that they should make everyday January 1st! Ray reasoned that you should make every day January 1st because there is something very powerful and magical about a new year! The New Year’s mindset brings with it a new energy and new enthusiasm to make things happen and to do something incredible!
Labor Day has passed. School is back in session. Summer vacation is over! So now is like a new year. Now is the time to shake off the summer doldrums and get going to make the rest of the year the best of the year. You can consider today as the first day of your new year. Get a renewed energy and enthusiasm to do something incredible!
I want you to pull out your goals from the beginning of the year. Review where you are in regards to their progress; If you have not written your goals, then I want you to go my goal page and do the goal-setting exercise.
If you have already hit some of your goals, focus on the ones yet to be accomplished. If success has eluded you, re-focus and double down on them. In fact, I want you to look at the goals and ask, “If I could only hit one of these goals, which one would it be?” Label that goal as #1. Next, if you could do only two what other goal would you label as #2? Do this for all your goals. This means you are prioritizing your goals.
Next, every evening make a list of the top 5 things you want to accomplish the next day. Then, prioritize them from 1 to 5. The next morning start working on #1 and keep at it until you finish it. Then go to #2 and work on that until you complete it. This is a proven technique that has helped millions of people achieve their goals and dreams! This is the approach Charles Schwab used to help him grow U.S. Steel and become a multi-millionaire.
Make sure to visit my goals page on my website and review the goal-setting strategies we worked on earlier in the year.
So, get a January 1st mindset and get started on making the rest of the year, the best of the year! God Bless!
Willie Jolley
