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If you make a lot of sales, it’s not because that was the first day you decided to wear blue socks. Wearing blue socks the next day won’t result in a lot of sales. No one succeeds only because they drink out of the same mug every day.
The only way to succeed is to put in a lot of work. Superstition does not replace the requirement of working every day to achieve a goal. No one runs a really good race just because of their socks. They run a really good race by practicing.
Thank goodness for scheduling blog posts. Right now, I am taking my Latin final exam, and I will have 3 to go after that. I have been studying for all of my subjects this entire weekend, and I will continue to study for the entire week until Thursday (then school is over). The way final exams are taken can be a lesson for business owners.
Final exams require a student to recall everything he or she has learned for the entire school year (in some cases such as mine, the second semester). Either way, that is a lot of information to learn within a short period of time. The more information you learn in a short amount of time, the better you will be able to do on the final exam.
The final exam forces you to cram in everything and hope to get a good result. Although most businesses owners aren’t recalling everything they know on a weekend, taking final exams will teach you how to learn more information quicker within a shorter period of time. By recalling and learning more information, you will be able to learn and remember more things for your business as well. I have been able to remember every Twitter tip that can help with getting more followers, and by the end of the summer, you can expect a book from me about being successful on Twitter.
By taking final exams, we are also forced out of our comfort zone. Students do better in some subjects than in others. However, the final exams require a student to recall and learn information on every subject. By being forced to do something we may not like in the beginning, we are able to excel in it and move forward.
Final exams can either be the best way to learn or a horror depending on the student. The more you learn or learned from taking endterms, the more information you will be able to recall and learn for your business.
You can do the same thing two times, but nothing gets accomplished if you don’t learn new tricks from the first time. The first time you do something is similar to an experiment. As you do the same thing over and over again for your business, you should be able to know the outcome.
You should also develop more skills in making the second product better than the first product. We all do something twice, or even more than that, but we only learn a lesson if we are able to do better the second time, and the third time, and so on.
There is always someone who turns off the lights on an idea. As more ideas get formulated, decisions have to be made about which ideas to stay with. The other ideas get extinguished.
Ideas will be suggested while other ideas will be rejected. It is important not to constantly turn off the lights on new ideas because you want to work on old ones. Old dogs can learn new tricks, and you can implement new ideas with your old ideas at the same time.
Don’t always be turning off the lights on new ideas, and tell other people when they are the ones turning off the lights for new ideas. If a business can’t be innovative and still keep its old ideas at the same time, then it’s lights out.
The Hare And The Tortoise story isn’t about speed. It’s about focus. The hare is much faster than the tortoise, but the hare loses focus of its task. The hare decides to take a nap. Then the tortoise slowly walks past the hare and wins the race.
In business, it is important to be consistent. Although the tortoise goes slow, the tortoise is consistently focused on achieving its goal–winning the race. You shouldn’t go as slow as the tortoise, but you should be consistently focused on achieving your goals.
The hare is a representation of the unsteady business person. The hare gets a really great start, but as the race progresses, the hare decides to sleep. The hare sleeping could easily relate to someone who decides to procrastinate.
The tortoise is a representation of the business person who constantly delivers. This person does not get the great start but ends up being better than the person who got the great start.
As procrastination builds, less gets done. If you are consistently productive, you will move past the sleeping hare. Then, the hare wakes up and tries to catch up, but alas, it’s too late. The tortoise just crossed the finish line.
I was thinking of an idea for my next blog post, but then I saw the icon for my inbox. I wanted to see if I got any new messages, so I clicked on it. After I clicked it, I realized that I had clicked it 5 minutes ago and found no new messages. The result was no different when I clicked it a second time.
I knew there was no way that this was the first time I had looked in my inbox twice in 5 minutes…or even more. Looking through an inbox that many times can make someone lose what they were thinking about. What that person was thinking about could have been the next multimillion dollar idea, we’ll never know.
Is it really worth it to look through your inbox? It is important to look at your inbox on occasion to answer questions that people may have or respond to an important email. However, it is not good to be consumed by your inbox.
There is always a time when we are least productive or are simply pondering for a new idea. Those are the times when we should check our inboxes. When I check my inbox, most of the messages are from websites I don’t know or random people. Some of it is really spammy. The few relevant messages I get don’t even involve me writing back to someone most of the time. Most of the time, the only relevant messages I get are about new comments.
If something takes up your time and doesn’t help your business, it’s usually not worth it. Checking your inbox every 5 minutes when you know the outcome is definitely not worth your time.