Years ago the Vice President of Sales asked the sales team at a retreat, “How do we reach our quota?”. He paused and listened to our responses, and went on to say, the same way you eat an elephant. Bite by Bite. Whether it is launching a new product, staying consistent with marketing, reaching a financial goal, or whatever else you’re trying to achieve it will be reached in the daily doing.
Miss Task
I love the name that I gave my business when I started out in 2016. When I was naming my business I wanted something short and sweet, easy to remember, and simple to Google.
But, what it means to me is something more, I see it as do not miss a task. If we are going to reach the goal we need to not skip over or miss the necessary tasks that need to be done. This is the daily doing. The daily doing doesn’t need to be done by the online entrepreneur, but it needs to be done by someone on the team.
In fact, I would encourage you to hire that part-time VA for just a few hours a week, it is a mindset shift that feels very empowering.
Easy Road
How do we stop ourselves from taking the easy road? While my mantra this year is “Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action” to me that doesn’t mean taking the easy road and skipping the daily doing.
It means that I will do the job to the best of my abilities for who I am right now. How you do one thing is how you do everything.
As online entrepreneurs, if we are so busy that we feel we need to cut corners to get everything done, is the corner-cutting setting your business up for future success?
I’m going to tell you, it will not. You’ll get to a point that you’ll regret that corner-cutting because something will break. And it will be a time monster to find and fix the issue.
Leadership
As an Online Business Manager, a key piece of my role in an online business is managing the team. My areas of expertise that I bring to my clients are leadership, metrics, planning, and organization. These are skills that I commit to cultivating.
Skill development is a daily doing that is a non-negotiable in my schedule. It is part of my morning routine. Gathering knowledge.
Recently, during my morning knowledge-gathering, I came upon this article on self-leadership by Jenni Carton, here is the link if you’re interested in reading it: Lead Yourself Well to Lead Others Better by Jenni Catron.
This is one key piece that stuck out to me in the article. “Self-leadership is the hard work behind the scenes that prepares you for great leadership. Understanding who you are, cultivating your character, committing to lifelong learning, and developing discipline provide the framework for fostering the leadership of self.”
This little nugget landed a spot in my Words + Wisdom gallery inside of Notion.
It is the hard work behind the scenes, our daily doing that makes us great.
Focus on the daily doing
Friend, I love to look towards the future what I’m going to do. But, thinking about your goals and what you want to do will not make them happen.
It takes action. It takes daily doing to get to your goals. Without taking action we stay stuck and stagnant.
It is the daily doing that forms the habits and gives us confidence that we can reach our goals.
Little Side Note
If you have no idea what to do. A fantastic way to figure it out is mind mapping. I’ve talked about this before in a post. Check it out.
✁ Just a Snippet
Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪
- Whether it is launching a new product, staying consistent with marketing, reaching a financial goal, or whatever else you’re trying to achieve it will be reached in the daily doing.
- If we are going to reach the goal we need to not skip over or miss the necessary tasks that need to be done.
- Doing the job to the best of your abilities for who you are right now, is not taking the easy road.
- Skill development is a daily doing that is a non-negotiable in my schedule. Is skill development part of your daily doing?
- It takes daily doing to get to your goals.
- What goal are you working towards and do you know the daily doing that needs to happen to accomplish your goal?