Does this sound like your typical morning routine?
Step #1: Grab a cup of coffee.
Step #2: Check your email. (You swear you’ll be off in ten minutes).
Step #3: 90 minutes later, you make a to-do list.
Step #4: Check off the easiest thing first.
Step #5: Check Facebook for a quick update.
Step #6: 45 minutes later, make another to-do list.
Step #7: Go through more emails.
Step #8: Return a phone call.
Step #9: Stare blankly at your laptop, wondering how it’s already noon and how you’ll ever get everything finished.
Step #10: Realize you’ve accomplished zero to move your business forward. But boy, have you been busy!
Yeah. Sooo… maybe it’s time for a new morning routine? Because I’m guessing your current routine isn’t working out as awesomely as you’d like.
May I make a suggestion?
Commit to your MIT.
Your Most Important Thing first.
I can tell you from personal experience that committing to your MIT will completely change your day – and could very well – completely change your business.
When you focus on your most essential task of the day first, you’ll make incredible headway on the most critical parts of your business, before anything else.
So how do you decide what your MIT is?
It has to relate to your most important business goals right now.
For example, I, like you, have to make sales to keep my business alive and growing. (Funny how that works).
My MIT is to make sales. And the first thing I’ll do in the morning are tasks related directly related to making that happen.
So before I jump into the black hole of email, the time suckers of Pinterest and other real-work procrastinators, I spend an hour:
- following up with leads
- connecting with my current clients, or…
- creating an awesome value add for a prospect
That means 100% ignoring email, Twitter, texts, alerts, beeps, calls and anything else that distracts me from my Most Important Thing.
Here are the benefits of focusing on your MIT first.
#1: You actually make progress on real work that impacts your business.
#2: Even if you get nothing else done for the rest of day (aka – caught up in email and other nonsense) – YOU. WILL. FEEL. ACCOMPLISHED.
#3: You’ll finally stop procrastinating the stuff you know you should be doing.
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about this idea and chances are, it won’t be the last. That’s because it’s SO IMPORTANT and yet so easy to forget.
Remember, if you get stuck in busyness, you never get to business!
Don’t let it happen.
Which of course brings me to this weeks challenge:
- What is your MIT for tomorrow?
Think about it then follow these three simple (but life changing) steps:
#1: Drop it in the comments below. It’s your first step to staying accountable.
#2: Schedule time on your calendar to work on your MIT first thing tomorrow morning.
#3: Lastly, bask in the glory of getting important stuff done. 😉
You owe it to yourself and your business to reach your potential in the fastest and most effective way possible. Do this every day and watch it happen.
Here’s to making your work work for you!
Xo,
Mridu
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