Simple Success Key: W.I.N. – What’s Important NOW?
In order to achieve Success in any endeavor, keeping FOCUS is an enormous challenge. Think about it. We are bombarded constantly by people, events, circumstances and things that easily distract us, causing us to waste precious time, attention and resources. That is where “W.I.N.” comes in: "What’s Important Now?" Does what I am doing NOW move me closer to what I want, faster than whatever else I could be doing? The more honest you can be in answering this question, the faster you will achieve your Goals and attain the Success you seek. It really is that simple. The difficulty lies in 1) Actually engaging in this self-analysis, and 2) Being brutally honest with ourselves. If what we WANT is that important, we can overcome this perceived “difficulty.”
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Simple Success Key: W.I.N. – What’s Important NOW?
Most of my Success Key posts tend to be on the lengthy side.
I am a lawyer by training, specializing in Intellectual Property Law, and have been practicing law since 1989. That’s a long time.
Being an effective lawyer in just about any practice area requires the ability to write with clarity. Whether drafting briefs in support of an important motion to argue in court, crafting last wills, trusts and estate documents, constructing complex contracts (such as, in my case, licensing agreements that may comprise more than 50-70 pages), drafting patent claims – whatever – the objective of the lawyer is to achieve precision and clarity in the written word so as to convey the intended meaning of the message.
Clarity removes ambiguity. And, in the world of legal work product, ambiguity is bad – very bad.
Yet, as a whole, lawyers are often awful when it comes to a competing goal: brevity. Hence, once I jump on a topic, I tend to say too much. Just like I am doing now . . .
So, to the point (after this lengthy introduction), this Success Key will be brief. Or, at least I will try.
Today’s Success Key is “W.I.N. – What’s Important Now.”
In order to achieve Success in any endeavor, whether financial, losing weight, getting into physical shape, being a better parent or spouse, etc., keeping FOCUS is an enormous challenge.
Distracted and Unfocused. Does what I am doing NOW move me closer to what I want, faster than whatever else I could be doing? Making paper airplanes is a sure way to Succeed! ;-)
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Think about it. We are bombarded constantly by people, events, circumstances and things that easily distract us, causing us to waste precious time, attention and resources.
There is television, other items screaming for our attention, our children and our parents, house projects, texting, messaging, telephone calls to family and friends (to talk about nothing), and, of course, the Grand Master of Distraction: The Internet.
How much time do we waste on the computer? Whether Facebook or Twitter, shopping or perusing, jumping from one insignificant site to another (or worse), we all are guilty of spending excessive amounts of time online doing things that do nothing to further us in reaching our Goals.
I am not saying that any of this is not important; there is a time and place for everything. But, if you are spending 4 hours a day on Facebook conversing with friends under the pretense of building your Social Network for your online business, you may just be kidding yourself.
That is where “W.I.N.” comes in. What’s Important Now?
The more honest you can be in answering this question, the faster you will achieve your Goals and attain the Success you seek. Really.
We must always pay attention to what we are paying attention to. That is how we can stay Focused. There are plenty of free Success EBooks on this site that fully address the importance of maintaining a proper Focus and that is not the import of this post. But, if you think there isn’t a relationship between staying Focused and attaining Success or achieving a Goal, then you better go back and re-read that material.
An online colleague, Paul Myer, who has the best darn Internet Marketing Newsletter (in my humble opinion) offers the following idea.
On our monitors – or wherever else we need to see it – we should post the following note:
“W.I.N. – WHAT’S IMPORTANT NOW? Does what I am doing NOW move me closer to what I WANT, faster than WHATEVER ELSE I could be doing??”
If we can honestly answer “yes,” than we are on Focus and should continue the activity.
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Staying focused on the most important task at hand is a major key to attaining Success and achieving your Goals. Make it a habit and you will attain Success and Prosperity faster than you can imagine!
If, on the other hand, our honest answer is “no,” then we need to stop what we are doing and shift gears. We have lost Focus and we need to redirect our attention to WHAT’S IMPORTANT NOW.
It really is that simple. The difficulty lies in 1) Actually engaging in this self-analysis, and 2) Being brutally honest with ourselves.
If what we WANT is that important, we can overcome this perceived “difficulty.”
Make W.I.N. a Habit. If you do – and it really is not that difficult – you are well on your way to attaining Success and achieving your Goal.
Start immediately.
[PS - As a shining example, you would not believe how distracted I allowed myself to become in trying to track down suitable images for this post!]
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To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,
Richard
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