Episode #39: Q1 Checkpoint - Refresh Your Direction & Conviction Now
New Year, Same You? What are you doing to execute on your New Year’s strategy? As January 1st arrives, that may provide a sense of refresh, excitement, new opportunities for some, or a sense of apprehension or nervousness, for others. You may love the idea of the fresh start, and some may dread it. Regardless, it is within your control of how to approach 2024 with a renewed vigor for life and your work. The key will be when those people, situations, opportunities, or thoughts come up, how will you handle them? Will you jump through the positive windows, and walk away from the negative traps? Or will you fall prey for the time suck or distractions of life? Will you ignore the signs and windows, and march on blindly without the big picture in mind? Do you have those new year goals set? No? Don’t know what to focus on at this stage? Regardless, it is within your control of how to approach 2024 with a renewed vigor for life and your work. The key will be when those people, situations, opportunities, or thoughts come up, how will you handle them? Will you jump through the positive windows, and walk away from the negative traps? Or will you fall prey for the time suck or distractions of life? Will you ignore the signs and windows, and march on blindly without the big picture in mind? Do you have those new year goals set? No? Don’t know what to focus on at this stage? BUILD. Build something, anything, anything that may serve a market, or not. Don’t sit and wait, build. Why you may ask? Because those who take action, go places, those who get in the arena and work on something, increase their odds of making things happen. Build as a creator, don’t just be a creator. Why? Because a lot of people are creating, but do they really build something? Building requires a different level of work, commitment, and vision. Building takes work towards something of significance in service to others. Principles As you build, consider a few principles to keep in mind for how you work with customers, candidates, or colleagues: Zone of genius - your unique ability Human first Response time Urgency Internal focused to deliver on external expectations Customer delivery is the number one priority for the people, with your people being number one for the firm overall Keep the main thing, the main thing Simple scales, complex fails Learning and curiosity Hire good people and treat them well Delivering excellence through service for others Hire and partner with those you want to work with Find your different Building with energy in 2024 How do you BUILD with energy in the New Year? You decide: What Why How Commit You build based on what your audience needs, along with what you and your expertise, or learning, can deliver. You identify the best path forward and move. You must commit and act to make it happen. Ideation and planning doesn’t move the needle, doesn’t get your first customer, doesn’t grow your audience, and won’t provide growth through learning. Action leads to learning, and building something based on your progression. “You cannot separate action from success” - John Maxwell Commitment without a “Plan B”, without distractions of new shiny objects, in whatever way you can, based on your own life’s situation; this is a proven recipe for success based on so many examples throughout time. Don’t miss your window to seize opportunity and growth. And most of all, don’t let another year pass, letting your dreams sit on the sidelines. Choose your path and go. Hopefully, this added a little value to your business or your career. Thank you for reading. Please share with someone who may benefit from this edition. Climb Higher, Raise Your^ROI CONTENT RESOURCES The Best Way to Create a Vision for the Life You Want - LifeHack What do you want? And how will you get there? www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/create-a-vision-for-the-life-you-want.html How to Create a Vision for Your Life: A Must for Leaders Find out how to create a vision for your life that helps you develop a purpose-driven company that produces massive change in the world. leaders.com/articles/personal-growth/how-to-create-a-vision Planning for 2024: Coasting or Closing? No excuses…there is still time to get ahead for Q1-2024 opco-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/planning-2024-coasting-closing How To Write a Business Plan in 9 Steps (2024) Need a business plan? Our step-by-step guide has everything you need to know about how to write a business plan to achieve your goals in 2024. www.shopify.com/blog/business-plan OpCo: The People Ops Blueprint — Operations | People | Culture | Organizations If Performance Operations Culture means something to you, or you would like to be notified for future posts on operations leadership, culture, and people related topics from the world of work, please share or repost for others, and make sure you click the 🔔 on my LinkedIn profile page. For additional daily content, check out grahampeelle.com. You can also find additional weekly articles on Medium. Climb Higher | Raise Your^ROI LEARN: Learn | Explore | Ambition | Reform | No
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