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How To Stay Out Of The 365 Day Mindset/Trap

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The New Year has the potential to kickstart a year of productivity. Some people will have more productive years than others. The best way to stay productive is by staying out of the 365 mindset/trap. There are 365 days in an entire year, and it seems as if it will take a very long time before the next year comes along.

This is the trap that people fall into. January is a month of great productivity. Then, February is a less productive month, and all of the other months aren’t very productive either. This is because most people think that 365 days is more than enough time. In 365 days, many people think that they can accomplish all of their goals while going weeks or even months without doing any of the work needed to accomplish those goals.

This results in a year-end urgency because the end of the year is getting closer. In order to stay out of the 365 mindset/trap, challenge yourself to get more accomplished with a certain time limit. I give myself a 12 week limit to accomplish my goals. Less time results in me staying more productive. I have tripled my progress, and by doing that, I have more time to experiment with other marketing tactics, create more products such as Lead The Stampede, and relax.

The relaxation part comes after the work is done. By working intensively for 12 weeks, you will be able to relax for the entire 13th week. Imagine doing no work for an entire week. You will only be able to accomplish your goals and get an entire week off by thinking of 12 weeks as a year.

The 365 day mindset/trap is not an option because it creeps closer slowly and steadily. The people who have the 365 day mindset/trap end up being the hare. The tortoise (those 365 days) end up passing by without getting noticed. When the change gets noticed, it may be too late.

Instead of thinking of a 365 day year, think of a 12 week, or 84 day year.

Keep The Slate Clean

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The New Year offers us all a clean slate. We get to start over again and write down a new list of goals. The past is just the past. The New Year quickly gave us a clean slate, but most people end up with an unclean slate before February ends. Most people give up on their New Year’s resolutions.

In order to stay strong with your New Year’s resolutions, you need a vision, the right mindset, purpose, and these kick starting ideas. The New Year offers us a sense of hope. This sense of hope is the motivation that will allow you to accomplish your goals.

In order to accomplish your goals throughout the year, you need to hold onto the hope and motivation you get in the New Year. The hope and motivation need to be carried from January to December. This is a great opportunity to transform your business and yourself. Anything you put your mind to can be accomplished in the New Year.

Happy New Year everyone!

7 Ways To Kickstart The New Year

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At the end of every year, we are given a new sense of motivation. The New Year gives us a clean slate. We can start over and accomplish those resolutions. However, 80% of people lose that motivation by February and don’t accomplish their goals. In order to accomplish your resolutions, you need to stick with them. By getting a strong start, you will be able to stick with your resolutions. Here are 10 ways to kickstart the New Year so you can keep that motivation intact.

  1. Have a vision. Imagine what you want to become. This will give you the motivation to implement tactics that will allow you to reach your vision.
  2. Use Must-Do Lists, not To-Do Lists. A To-Do List sounds optional. A Must-Do List will strengthen your commitment towards getting a task done.
  3. Prioritize. What needs to be done first?
  4. Write down all of the things that inspire you. These can be motivational quotes, short stories, or another form of writing. If you want to use pictures or anything else, use them. This will motivate you to accomplish more goals.
  5. Use a day by day plan. Implementing a day by day plan will allow you to identify all of the tasks you need to accomplish. By planning weeks ahead, you will get the best results.
  6. Don’t think of the year as 365 days. Think of a year as 12 weeks. By thinking of a year as 12 weeks, you will be able to get more accomplished in a shorter amount of time.
  7. Reward yourself for accomplishing goals. Each time you accomplish a goal, kick back and relax. You deserve it. Make sure you don’t lose too much time though.

The New Year is the time when motivation reaches its peak. In order to keep your motivation at its peak, you need to kickstart the New Year and stay motivated from the New Year to the last day of December.

Why Being Consistent Is Essential

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Consistency

Being consistent is crucial towards success. By being consistent, people will be able to expect something at a certain time or similar results. There are a lot of benefits towards being consistent.

For starters, writing blog posts on a consistent basis will result in more traffic and more visibility from the search engines. If you always blog every day or every week at the same time, people will know when to look at your blog for a new post.

Consistency also help out a lot with social media. If you consistently tweet a lot on a consistent basis, more people will be able to see your tweets. If you are pinning on a daily basis, people will notice. You will see your repins and retweets increase.

When you come up with your New Year’s resolutions or a giant list of goals, remember that consistency is essential. Over 80% of people give up on their New Year’s resolutions in February because they realize these resolutions have to be carried out from January to December.

By being consistent, people will pay attention to what you have to say. When people pay attention to you in the masses, you will grow a big following that will constantly grow as the days go by.

Showing up isn’t half the battle. Showing up consistently is half the battle.

Focus On One Big Goal

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There are a lot of people who have many unrelated goals. The time these people spends accomplishing their goals gets scattered, and as a result, these people know a little bit about many things. In order to have a thriving business, you need to focus on one big goal.

All of your goals should impact the big goal. The big goal may be to increase blog traffic. Using social networks, writing longer blog posts, and doing some research on SEO are some of the things that you would have to do in order to increase blog traffic which is the big goal.

Few people focus on a big goal. However, those people are the ones who we know about. The farmers who plant the small pumpkins don’t get remembered as well as the farmers who plant the giant pumpkins.

You should focus on planting a giant pumpkin instead of planting many small pumpkins. It is better to be an expert in one particular area than to be an expert at everything. An expert at everything is really an expert of nothing, but an expert in a particular area is the expert that is highly sought.

What do you want to accomplish the most? That’s what you need to start first. All of your other goals should be related to what you want to accomplish.

Set The Bar (Even) Higher

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When most people think about giving themselves goals, they give themselves the easiest goals imaginable. The goals may be, “writing 1 blog post every week that is only 100 words,” or something similar. While it is good that progress is being made, it is easily possible to make more progress. In order to make more progress, you need to set the bar higher.

When people think of setting the bar higher, they quickly think of reasons why the bar is already set as high as possible. There is no limit to how high any bar can be set. If a bar is set at 14.6 feet, know that it can also go to 15 feet. The bar can keep on going higher and higher.

As you set the bar higher and higher for yourself, you will be giving yourself challenging goals. However, when those goals get accomplished, you will see the results. You will be able to do something far better than ever before. You will be able to break records, be very productive, and ultimately be better off.

Setting the bar high requires work on your part. After that work gets done, you will have the prize: a new record, incredible productivity, a big increase in traffic, a lot of sales for your new product, or something else.