4 Steps to A New Winning Game Plan

When your old plan isn’t working anymore, its time to get a new plan and get things growing again.

Here are 4 steps to get you moving again quickly.

1. Evaluate the competition. Learn from the competition:
Assume they know something you don’t know. They have an angle. Assume they see something you don’t see. Their focus is different.
Use their ideas to beat them. Take away their advantage and use it for yourself.
Assume that if they have something you can use it to get better.
Realize and accept there are reasons some win and some don’t. Learn from the
Winners. Do NOT listen to losers. What do they know?... Only how to lose.

2. Work Harder.
Assume they were working harder than you. Now out-work them. Even a dumb dumb knows you can’t “lazy your way” to Greatness. Work like you expect to Win.
Work so that everyone expects you will win.

3. Trim Waste (Prune the dead limbs)
Cut back time you spend on unproductive People, Processes, Presentations, Products, Meetings, Ideas. Eliminate time and energy wasters. Ignore time wasters. Run negative people out of your life. Out with the trash. They are radioactive waste. Free up time and energy for positives.

4. Pump Up Positives.
Find ways and time to Focus your energy on fewer things and people. Give preferential attention to biggest producers. The biggest rewards go to biggest producers. Notice every new positive thing that happens. Celebrate every little success— they are important. Saturate your conversations with more talk about Successes and Success stories.

Now Take Your New Plan and Attack. Don’t worry about it being Perfect - Nothing is perfect and you can make improvements as you go.

You can’t waste the rest of your life planning. Once you have enough things in place to get you excited and energized you know you are ready to go!

Do Hard Things. Don't Run From Them.

If you stand up to the thing that’s hard for you to face today, you’ll find they will be not quite so hard tomorrow.

In a week they won’t be hard at all, and shortly thereafter will become fairly easy.  That’s how you grow.  

You don’t build big muscles by lifting small weights

You can’t experience growth and the joy of growth and improvement without facing up to “hard things.” Remember just because it’s hard today doesn’t mean it’s going to be hard tomorrow. Like lifting weights in the gym, if you never lift a heavier weight you’ll never get stronger. In fact, just like building muscle, facing up to challenges is the only way to develop mental toughness in sports.

So do the hard things.  

Pretty soon they’ll be easy and people will say, “Look how strong you are. Boy, you must just be naturally strong.” They will be amazed how tough and determined you are. They won’t ever realize the process you had to put yourself through to get there. 

But you will, you’ll have the confidence that comes the achievement, from facing your fears and winning.