Rituals Vs RICHuals
Do you ever
have those days where everything appears to be against you? No matter what you
try to do, you feel as if you are banging your head against a wall.
Alternately,
do you ever have those days where everything seems effortless? A hot knife
through butter day.
Ever find
yourself asking the question, “How do I have more of the effortless days?” The answer may well be closer than you think….
Imagine:
After a
lousy night’s sleep the alarm rings out and you think to yourself “Here we go
again, another day in paradise, another lousy night’s sleep and I don’t deserve
that,” so you reach over and hit the snooze button or reset the alarm clock.
Eventually, you get up and because you are now against the clock, everything
has to be done at twice the pace. Coffee, breakfast and getting dressed on the
run. A lot later than you anticipated, you get into your car and as you are
driving off your drive you realise you have left important documents on the
kitchen side. You make your way back into the house to find that in your rush
you left your coffee cup on top of your now stained documents, and you think to
yourself “It is going to be one of those days!”
You get
under way again and it is now 30 minutes later than the time you had planned to
leave and you suddenly remember at this time, every day, it’s school run time,
which means the roads will almost certainly be busy and will no doubt delay you
getting to work. Guess what, you’re right and to add to your woes there is roadwork’s
as well.
By the time
you arrive at work (50 minutes late), you are not in the best of moods; the
whole world seems to be against you and you just know that for today at least
it isn’t get any better…..
What’s
happened here is that because of a poor night’s sleep, you have put in place a
set of rituals that just do not serve you, sure they are easier at the time and
seem perfectly logical, but you have allowed your ego to take charge and now
you are having to deal with the consequences.
How could
this have been prevented? How could this have been one of those knife through
butter days?
Changing
Rituals into RICHuals…Now imagine:
Last thing
before you left work the previous evening, you checked in with your 90 day plan
(I am going to presume that you are a very savvy business owner and understand
the importance of having a plan, if you don’t have one you can get one here… )
and you have taken the information from your plan and set a ‘to achieve list’
for the following day. You have also prioritised your list taking into account
any important meetings, calls you need to make, etc.. With work put to bed you
now head home for a nice relaxing evening which will include some reading of
either a business or a self-development book because you understand the effect
that growing your knowledge has on the outcomes in your life.
Nice and
relaxed you head off to bed. You set the alarm on the other side of the room or
maybe you don’t need an alarm your passion will get you up nice and early.
Because you have planned the next day you are able to enjoy a relaxing night’s
sleep and upon waking, you leap out of bed telling yourself what a great day it
is going to be.
You then
proceed to do some form of exercise for half an hour, maybe take the dog for a
walk and all the while you are telling yourself how lucky you are to have such
fabulous people in your life and your business.
You sit down
for a relaxing breakfast with your family, clear in the knowledge that you have
plenty of time because you have planned everything in advance.
Leaving home
nice and early, allows you to listen to a motivating CD, perhaps the
autobiography of someone you admire, to top up your knowledge and provide
inspiration because you believe in the value of turning your car into a
travelling university.
Because you
arrive at work early, you have the office to yourself so there are no
disturbances, which allows you to get on with some of the mundane tasks that
later in the day could get in the way of you completing the important stuff. All
this means that before most of the other staff have arrived you have cleared a
great deal of your ‘to achieve list’ and you know that once again that by
having put into place some RICHuals and being disciplined in following them you
have set yourself up to have an exceptional day.
You might be
asking why I have changed rituals into RICHuals; truth is what we are talking
about here are habits and, as you know, some habits work well for you whilst
some work against you. Having a daily set of good habits/RICHuals will help you
have a RICH and fulfilling life/business.
Quite often
when life isn’t going the way we like it we tend to blame other things for
conspiring against us, when in actual fact it is ourselves that is at cause.
The fix although not easy, is really simple; take a look at your daily habits
and ask are they empowering me or working against me? Then put in place a plan
to change one or two habits at a time. Attempting to change everything in one
hit rarely works because it takes us into overwhelm. As the new habits become
ingrained and working automatically add another new habit from your plan.
Slowly but
surely you will notice changes taking place until suddenly the effect of all
your new habits/RICHuals will reach a tipping point and your life/business just
gets easier, RICHer and more fulfilling.
Give it go
you know it only works.
Thoughts:
”Constant dripping hollows out a
stone.”…Lucretius
“Persistence is the twin sister of
excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”…Marabel
Morgang
“Big shots are only little shots who
keep shooting”….Christopher Morely
“It’s never crowded along the extra
mile.”….Dr Wayne Dyer
“We first make our habits, and then
our habits make us.”…John Dryden
Kevin Gallagher
Business Performance Coach
Telephone 0151 348 1202 / 07802 434 782
Growing Your Profit, Transforming Your Business, Changing Lives
www.mpcforprofit.com
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