Is Your Heart In It?

With June being the 6th month of the year, it is the perfect time to reflect on where you have been, where you are going and anything new that has cropped up that was unexpected?

If you are a solo business owner, this exercise can help you be sure you are on track to accomplish your goals for this year (and beyond).

If you have a team that you work with, its a great time to check in and see what is happening with their projects & their goals from a broader perspective.

After all this reflection and checking in, you may need to do some course correction.
Course correction looks like this:

• reset of timelines or deadlines
• juggling people resources to meet the needs of the project
• determining which items need to 'fall off' the list to make room for new things
• looking at your priorities and aligning (or re-aligning) them

Why do you need to do this?

You need to understand if your heart is still in it.  I know that our minds (and our bank accounts) drive a great deal of what we do.  But what is the point of doing it if our hearts don't align?  

It's gut-check time.

Do you want to end 2015 with your goals accomplished, a huge smile on your face because you know you have made a difference with the work you love to do?

OR

Do you want to end 2015 with your goals checked off as done?

I know which one I will be working for - with my heart & my head! (funny when this happens, the bank account becomes less of a motivator)

Why Not Today?

There comes a time when we need to heed our own advice.  It has been a struggle for me for most of the last 2 months to get my routine in place so that I am productive, focused and shipping regularly.

Now I have arrived.  And at the same time, know that I need to continue to focus so that I don't get derailed.

Here is advice and a few comments I have received/gleaned along the way:

• focus on the One Thing - what is it and do all roads lead there
• the issue with this is that while the One Thing is a super idea, we are always juggling more than One Thing.
• it is difficult to work on more than 3 projects at any one time if you are really trying to move the needle
• breaking the year down into projects over months and putting hard timelines in place for main components (development, marketing, launching, revisiting) certainly helps put perspective around workload and ability to ship
• life happens
• things shift and opportunities come to you - selecting the right ones to put into play that align with your goals and values is critical
• learning to say Yes and to say No is hard...having a strong plan for the year (Thanks Michael HYATT B.Y.E.) helps keep the focus on what the right response should be at this time

Crashing through the pace that the world is currently throwing at us, we all need to understand how to keep the focus and ship.  What other ideas do you have on shipping regularly and sticking to your plan?