I haven't posted much of anything for a couple of days. I've been struggling with achieving my goals and believing in my dreams. Trying to go from spending only a couple hours a week working on my dreams to full time with a 90 Day Run has been so taxing. I don't think I can maintain the kind of stamina necessary to go that 'all out massive action' as I wanted. I'm not saying I'm not going to do it, but coming from being a regular person with a regular job to being in complete control of my own schedule and how much I make is harder than it seems. I am going to try for a more gradual transition. Instead of aiming to spend every free minute working on my business I am going to aim for a consistent 3 hours every day minimum with 6 hours being my ideal that I'm working up to. Some people need to aim higher so they reach a more moderate goal, like shoot for the moon so even if you miss, you land upon the stars. That's awesome for them, but being a perfectionist, as I can be, means if I shoot for the moon, I'll be miserable and overly critical of myself even if I land upon stars. If I shoot for 3 hours a day. It's still a challenge coming from 0 hours a day and it will get me consistently building. Also I expect that if I am consistent in doing 3 hours of calls I will eventually be doing a lot more than 3 hours because I will have meetings lined up throughout the day.
In order to come up with this more realistic plan, I had to go through a stage of excitement for my crazy huge plan of working non-stop every second. And that stage ended quickly with my crash and burn meltdown yesterday.
What was supposed to get me closer to my goals than ever led me feeling further than ever. No one would blame me for quitting. "It was an impossible path" they would say "you were destined to burnout sometime." But I'm not going to quit. I'm not quitting my business and I'm not quitting my run.
My mentor said in a run you are sprinting and you will get exhausted and want to stop. The first couple weeks are the hardest.
I'm just adjusting my run. The full out 10k all day run isn't for me right now. But before this run my average hours a week spent on my business were 3-5. I would sometimes call people, go to the weekly meetings and listen to personal development.
Now I'm listening to my teams development call every day at 10 am, I'm blogging about my business, posting my customers crazy results on my Facebook fan page, getting in touch with old friends (well that's not really work, but it can help spread awareness of my business if we talk about it) ,making calls every day, having multiple meetings with prospective builders and customers almost everyday and still attending the trainings once a week.
So while I won't be doing the non-stop 9am to 9pm, I will be consistently working more than ever before and recording my results . I will not give up.
The one thing I learned about running in High School was that if I started out running fast I never made it to the second lap. But if I started at a medium speed I could keep it up for the long haul.
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