Is Your Life And Business Stagnating Or Evolving?
Are You Evolving Or Stagnating In Life?
Nothing in life is final, it’s all about constantly changing.
Evolution, is defined as:
“The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.”
Stagnation, is defined as:
“Lack of activity, growth, or development. “
Are you evolving or stagnating in your life and business?
If you’re stagnating you feel stuck. All your routines, habits and work are almost the same day in and day out.
Repetition is key to success, but it can also kill creativity and forward movement.
Your days and weeks should have structure in them. If you’re building a business there are certain days of the week you do specific activities. You might do something like this, Monday planning, Friday is review of your numbers, Wednesday might be your adjustment day and so on.
What are you working on your projects, how do you structure your weeks.
Your day’s might be similar from one ot the next. The time you wake up, the time you have lunch, your first two hours of the day. It all has a specific structure that you follow. It’s through the power of a repetitive structure that you’ll achieve your end results.
Without structure we fall into the trap of bouncing from one action to the next. What may seem most important in that moment. What seems like the least amount of effort to take. What’s going to give us that sugar rush and completely energize us.
But, like that sugar rush we crash when we do too many unfulfilling actions every day.
(key point) part of evolution is being able to see your growth (or lack of) and adjust. When you lack the structure and perform the a bunch of different activities there’s no way you can measure and nail down what needs to be adjusted.
If your intention is to grow and evolve in your life and business start introducing some structure, some rigidity. Start by examining your daily schedule and adhering to it.
If structure is the cornerstone to evolution in your life and business is variety the opposite?
Variety si the spice of life and we’re programmed as humans to want variety. That’s why so many people are stressed out, overwhelmed and frustrated. They have too many irons in the fire, too many interests and are going in too many directions at once.
Absolutely, structured variety is setting yourself up to win. When you lack variety you get bored, distracted and move on to the next big thing.
Building a business or improving your life requires tons of actions and projects that you’ll be working on. For many of them it’s not a liner process where you complete one and move onto the next. Instead its’ more of a mashup where all the plates are spinning at once.
The goal is to introduce the needed variety each day of your week, each week month or year. Set a specific should theme, projects and actions you are working on and a plan to complete them.
By working this plan on a daily basis you’ll build the different components you’ll need. Those components will give you the variety and structure that are essential to your evolution in business and life.
Structured Variety Is A Concept You Must Practice
Now that you’ve seen how you need structure and variety in your life and business what will you do about it?
Identify what you are moving towards, what do you want to achieve?
What are the identifiable components you have to work on?
When would you best or most effectively work on those components?
it’s best if you can break it down into your specific day and time.
Schedule it, once you write it down it becomes a commitment to not only yourself but your customers, your family and your community.
Once it’s scheduled you have to track whether you completed it or not. I’m not suggesting you put in a detailed tracking system. Focus on something as simple as yes you did it or no you didn’t do it will suffice.
Over time keep track of what you did and didn’t do for what you intended you’ll notice three categories:
1. Things you never have time for, if you constantly push something off. If you feel it’s necessary for your business then hire someone to do it for you. It’s a small rock but will have an impact on your overall results.
2. Things you consistently do, this is your bread and butter. Things you are good at doing and should focus on.
3. Things you avoid. These are different than things you push off because you don’t have the resources. Its’ the things you look at an decide I can find something else to do. If you have something that fall sin this category cut it. Remove it from your plan and replace it with something else.
Your evolution is going to come through structure. To go from “Freedom Of Choice” to “Freedom From Choice.”
Structure your workflow, environment and life around where you want to go. Where your goals and vision are driving you.
Eliminate from your life and business those activities that are causing you to stagnate. To stay where you are and live a life of inaction.
Josh Gauthier is the Founder of Ignite Your Awakening. We focus on helping you get unstuck in life and business. He can be reached at josh@igniteyourawkening.com or visit www.igniteyourawakening.com
Originally published at www.igniteyourawakening.com on July 24, 2017.