When I was a kid people would ask me how I was and I would always answer “good”. My mother, being brought up differently, said you should never say “good” you should always say “well” or “very well”.
With everything going on around us, demands for our time and attention is there some part of you that would “settle” for being considered very well? In all parts of your life.
If your friends and colleagues greet you in the morning with “how you doing?” can you legitimately answer: “Very Well”?
How are you going?
Being able to confidently say “very well” means you have things under control in your life and your business. Whether you own and run a business or are an employee responsible for your part of the business – leading a team, managing a process, getting along with your colleagues – you know you want to be able to say things are well or very well.
Life is better when you can confidently say thing are going Very Well. And you know when they aren’t!
To kick off you will need the following:
- The picture – what does “very well” look like to you?
- The skills – what do you need to be able to actually do? Do you do your job “very well”? Do you handle stress “very well”? Can you relax when it’s time to relax “very well”?
- The resources – no man is an island. You may want to but you can’t do this on your own.
- The tools – what tools do you have and use well, use poorly, or don’t have that you need.
- The network - who do you know. Even with technology and the web where anyone can get on line in 5 minutes, the successful ones are all part of a network. How big and effective is yours.
- The fan club – these are those people who just love you for being you. They want you to try and will support you when maybe no-one else will (spouses, kids, long term friends, people who see something in you that they believe needs to be fanned into a flame)
The next thing you need to do is:
- Rate each item above out of 10 (10 means you have everything you need, 1 means you have zero)
- Depending on the score, brainstorm (quickly write down) what you believe is currently missing at each point
- Lastly, write down initial thoughts on where/how you might be able to fill the gap.
For now, just keep the list and allow your mind to dwell on it a little. As things come to mind have a notepad handy to write down the ideas and thoughts. You’re not trying to do anything at the moment, you’re just trying to get ideas.
Next time we’ll look at Point 1 – The picture of what you want and we’ll discuss how we can make that picture more vivid, more achievable and begin to take steps to make it happen.
What you can do now is begin to list those in the “fan club” and how they might be able to help.
