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Pivots and Adjustment VS Reactivity
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8 minutes
Released:
Mar 29, 2021
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Podcast episode
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If you are romantic about how you will do business, how you do business, you will go out of business. We live in a world where things change every single day, social media platform, chain advertising change. The market changes. The world changes. The current state changes. Everything changes. And with that, we have to be willing to pivot and adjust while continually moving forward. And I believe the difference between failure and success is being proactive and pivoting instead of reacting in pivoting.I struggled for years, I would be like, everything's great. Launched it at work, full break check. And I would react. Cause I had emotional reaction in my body. I took it personally, which clouded my judgment and my ability to see the entire field. And then my decisions were based out of fear or reactivity and couldn't ever possibly create a positive result versus now where I live. And I look at it, everything like its information. And I have a pause period where if something comes up a big decision, a purchase, a business decision. I put it in my calendar for 24 hours later. I'm not allowed to make a decision until that point. I have to protect myself so that I can be in my peak state.Now there are times as an entrepreneur, as a business owner where I have to make decisions in that moment, but the way that I see it as the more present I can be through breath, through my containers, through my calendar, through all the practices that I have. I can pivot and adjust without being reactive and spiralling out of control, and really it comes down to presence. And so one of the secrets to you succeeding to me succeeding is to always protect our needle movers, to always protect our foundational principles of our business, working, whether that's sales calls, whether that's creating content, whether it's just showing up to the office, we all have a few things that are completely unaffected by the outside world that determine when the needle moves, we have to protect those things. But then once those are protected, we have to be willing to adjust and pivot, to make the most out of those things, to make them as effective as possible to reach as far as possible. And that comes with constantly checking in, constantly being aware. Constantly checking current state to where we're never just coasting or ever gliding.Even when you're the best athlete in the world, you might be running your best race, but you're still checking your heart rate. You're still proactively hydrating. So you don't get dehydrated. You're staying ahead of the curve and that's going to be one of the secrets we get to fall in love as entrepreneurs with pivoting, where we get to fall in love with adjusting. And I look at them as micro-adjustments, I look at them as the ability of like, we're fine tuning an old radio dial. And after time, sometimes it'll get staticky new, just have to tilt that knob or turn that knob just a little bit. And it's crystal clear and that's what our job is as entrepreneurs, we get to the station, then we fine tune that station and we proactively make pivots to make it sound better, make it sound better. And that's the way that I look at business.And so we have to fall in love with being able to pivot and adjust, and we have to proactively pivot instead of reactively pivot, we have to be ahead of the curve. We have to realize this race is going great, but I know if I don't stay ahead of my water and take, I'm going to get dehydrated, it's going to slow my pace down. I know my race car can go this fast, but it's going to burn up my tire. So let me conserve a little bit of energy and gas. I can go the longer game. This is a long game. And so today, tomorrow this week, I want you to carry this in your brain that you can constantly be making current state analysis of where you are in your business. And it's okay to make adjustments, but not derailments. Measure them against your control, make sure that you are constantly setting yourself up to win, but
Released:
Mar 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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