2016 can be the biggest year of your business if you want it to be: the year that you finally draw a line in the sand and get it done. The year you stopped all the BS and excuses, all the procrastinating and blaming, all the anxiety, worry and fear of failure and finally tapped into the potential you know you have inside. Jet Xavier explains.
THERE ARE six things that need to happen for you to make 2016 the year for you.
These six keys to success in real estate are the result of over 2,000 high-performance coaching and training sessions with some of the best agents in the world. It is what top agents and business owners do day in and day out to create success.
Do the exercise at the end of each one to set up a plan of success for 2016.
- GET RID OF ALL DISTRACTIONS
You need to get serious about what you let into your mind, life, space and time. This is the difference between average and great. Be militant about protecting every single piece of opportunity you have. Get rid of all distractions that keep you average and be vicious in your approach to what you involve yourself in.A distracted life is an unsuccessful life. Sometimes you need to be selfish with your time and energy to enable you to minimise unwanted and non-resourceful distractions. Steve Jobs of Apple said “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”Write down all the distractions you need to get rid of in 2016 and create a strategy to eradicate them totally.
- CREATE OBSESSIVE FOCUS
It is not enough just to have focus on something. You need obsessive focus. If what you want to achieve does not constantly preoccupy your mind then you don’t really want it in the first place. Create an all-consuming focus on what you want so that it is all you think about. Gandhi said, “The future depends on what you do today”, so the amount of focus you have today relates to the amount of success you will have in the future.Write down the key areas you need to focus on in 2016. - STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS
Every time you compare yourself to others you weaken your value as a human. Every time you concern yourself about what others have and are doing, you lose your power and drive to be great. Comparing yourself to others only creates a road to resentment and takes your eye off the ball. You will only ever be the best you can be, so accept that and celebrate it. Learn from others and model success, but stay true to yourself. The great author Mark Twain put it best when he said, “Comparison is the death of joy.”Write down what you have learned from others in 2015 and apply that to your business in 2016. - STOP DOUBTING YOURSELF
There is only one you. Your job on this earth and in your career is to be the best you can be, not the best somebody else can be. You have talents and abilities unique to you only, so use them! Self-doubt will only cause you to hesitate all the time and make you never back yourself.Write down the areas in which you doubt yourself and make a commitment to overcome these in 2016. - BE RELENTLESS IN ACTION
Success is in the implementation. Massive action needs to occur in everything that you do. Being relentless means to be ‘unceasingly intense’ and success is all about intensity. How you take action defines the success you have. The great Socrates quote sums up relentless action at its best: “When you want success as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”Write down the key areas where you need to take action daily, weekly and monthly. - DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY – HAVE FUN!
Yes, don’t take yourself too seriously. It creates stress and anxiety and lowers your performance. Don’t sweat the small stuff and remember, you only get one life – so plug into what you do for motivation and passion. Have fun with what you do and enjoy the ride. People end up regretting the fact that they worked too hard during their life and did not take time to soak it all up along the way and enjoy it. A fun you is a better-performing you!Write down all the ways you will have fun in 2016.
