A little morning thought for you (yes, I never used the word "little" until Gabs came into my life 8 years ago 🙂)
Anyway, here we go. Every morning I wake up mentally ready and keen to get on with the day, although it takes me an hour to function properly — it's true to say I'm not a morning person. 🙂 Every night before I call it a night I go through my to-do list for the next day (Sunday nights I plan my whole week out too).
For the last 5 days I've hit my daily goals — up until yesterday. My plan was to finish up all the remaining backend jobs for Real Entrepreneur, wake up this morning, do the final checks, and launch it this afternoon.
I DIDN'T MANAGE IT.
Honestly, I was pretty knackered last night, but in my mind I'd fallen at the final hurdle I'd set myself over the last 5 days. Maybe I'm too hard on myself — after all, I've been talking about this damn thing for months, so what's another day going to matter?
The bad monkey in my head says: "Well, you've been saying that for months and look — you've still not launched it." The good monkey says: "IT'S FKING ONE MORE DAY, MARKY… just get done today what you planned yesterday and get the fking thing launched." (Excuse the language, but this is how my inner monkeys actually talk between themselves in my head… 😂)
So why am I writing this post? It's just a reminder to you all that sometimes we don't hit our goals. Things get in the way, life gets in the way, etc. I woke up this morning, cleared all my daily tasks — apart from feeding the animals — and I am working for the next 14 hours. I will get it done. I may even message in here tonight to tell you it's launched. If not, it will be tomorrow.
So… stop beating yourself up, but keep your eye on the goal. Don't get complacent — keep the goals in mind, try your best to hit the tasks needed to reach them, and get on with it.
At the end of the day, my new main business and passion will be launched within the next 24 hours, and that in itself will be massive for me. It finally gives me the vehicle I've wanted to make the difference I really want to make — so that's a good thing.
Friday the 13th new business launch though? 🙂 I don't care — it'll be a memorable date to look back on.
All being well, I plan to tell you guys first in here that RE is ready to go — hopefully later tonight, if not it will be tomorrow. I'm under no illusion that just because it launches, it means nothing is left to do — the hard work starts the moment it's live. But at least it'll be out there, a living, breathing thing that can be worked on and built upon. You should look at whatever you're working on in the same way.
And it goes without saying — I am here (after tomorrow) to help any way I can.
Keep going, folks.
Right, back to this launch spreadsheet. Marky = Out 🙂 Later, folks.