Lately I’ve heard a lot of people say they just want this year to be over. They’re excited about next year.
It gets to this time of year, and a lot of people want to take their foot off the accelerator.
We see the Christmas decorations go up in the shops and it’s easy to think, “Ohhh, I’m exhausted. I’ve had a big year. I’m going to slow down now.”
Next year can almost become a ‘dumping ground’ for anything we’ve been putting off this year.
I get it. This year has been really tough for a lot of people.
But although 2020 may not have bought you the results you wanted… you can still make this year count.
Ending your year by finishing strong and feeling successful, with the right focus, strategy and execution can completely change how you start next year.
We still have time to finish the year well.
Ending your year by finishing strong and feeling successful, with the right focus, strategy and execution can completely change how you start next year.
I’m not talking about those of you who genuinely need a rest. I’m talking about those of you who know that there’s a bit more in your tank and you’ve got more to give.
The good thing about success is we get to determine what success means.
WE get to define our year, whether we feel it was successful or not. It’s not based on someone else’s metric. It’s based on our own metric. It’s based on how we feel.
It could be an amount of money coming into your bank account, or a number of clients, or doing a webinar or Facebook Live video.
If you’re focusing on ‘just getting by’ into next year, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity that successful entrepreneurs know.
Which is – every task counts, every day counts, every week counts, every quarter counts.
If you’re already checking out of this year mentally, feeling it’s too late to start something, then I invite you to ask yourself this: Do people still need your help?
If the answer is yes, then consider keeping going, keeping helping people.
Obviously, if you need to take a mental health break, a physical, emotional or spiritual break, then do it.
But if you feel you have it in you to do more…
Here are 3 reasons why I believe it’s time to ramp up in your business:
1 – Most People Are Not Ramping Up
I’m generally not a massive advocate on focusing on your competitors and thinking about what they’re doing. But sometimes we can use it to fuel us.
Think about the fact that most people aren’t doing this. Then think about what successful entrepreneurs do and emulate that.
In business, you don’t want to do what everyone else is doing.
Quarter 4 is when I ramp things up. Quarter 4 is the quarter that I go even harder, because I know holidays are coming.
I want to feel really deserving on my holidays and that I’m finishing my year strong. Because if I don’t, I know what I’m like and I’ll just regret it and be disappointed.
If I didn’t ramp it up, I’d miss out on new clients, launching new programs and new opportunities.
And if you’re super productive, you can get a lot of things done when you focus on the right things.
If you’re trying to grow a business, as an entrepreneur in this day and age, you recognise that you need to use your time wisely. You can get so much done in just one week. So if you take your foot off too early, you can waste so much time.
It’s really important that you take opportunities where other people aren’t. I know that December and January are my quietest months, they always have been over the last 17 years in business. A lot of people go away, so you want to get ahead of the game.
Be intentional for what you want to achieve to finish the year well and also start the new year well.
Be clear. Be specific and you will kick your goals and feel awesome.
2- It Sets You Up For The Tone of the Coming Year
Ramping up your business in Quarter 4 sets you up for the tone of the coming year. Be the person who doesn’t cut corners and who doesn’t stop short of your goals. This is a mentality I’ve built within myself.
I used to do a long run which was about 8 kilometres door to door. Towards the end of the run I’d think that I could just slow down and walk the rest of it. But when that thought came, I would move into my entrepreneur identity and think, “Kat you are not a person to cut corners. You don’t stop short of your goals. You are a person of excellence.”
When you have that mentality of finishing successfully, you will take that feeling into your holiday and into the new year. And when you feel that success, you will want to keep feeling that success.
You want to be the person that executes and does whatever it takes to finish strong. I don’t know about you, but after I’ve been on holiday, I don’t feel motivated to get back to business.
If I know that I’ve had all these wins and I’ve got people waiting for me to serve them, then I get motivated. If I’ve had all these wins the year before, that excites me as I go about my business in the new year.
Finish strong and make it a habit. Then make sure that you give your brain a break over the holidays. Fully stop and give your body and brain a break. Allow the adrenaline to release from your body, so you can recoup for the new year ahead.
3 – Success Breeds Success
The third reason why it’s time to ramp it up in your business, is because success breeds success.
Success almost always brings more success and failure brings more failure.
If you’re feeling a little bit like you’ve not achieved what you’ve wanted to this year, there’s still time.
Don’t finish mediocre. That mindset is not beneficial to you or to being a successful entrepreneur.
We need to be both present-focused AND future-focused as entrepreneurs. We need to have one eye on the present and be very present every day, and one eye on the future and having a vision and plan.
So I want to ask you a question: What’s it going to take for you to feel like you had a successful year?
What 3 things do you want to achieve before the end of the year?
Put your focus on those. Don’t waste time constantly consuming other people’s socials or checking your likes. Create. Start executing a plan.
Execution is about creating things – like events, programs, documents and videos, all things that are helpful for people.
Start thinking about the momentum of success that you can carry on to next year.
I challenge you to write down 3 things that would make you consider this year successful if you achieve them before 31st of December.
Then write down 3 things you want to get done each week leading up to December 31st.
These are your top 3 priorities. Every day look at your top 3 priorities for the week so you keep your focus.
Ever day matters, so let’s make every day count.
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