How Planning Changed My Life
From Meeting Millionaires to Launching My Own Business
Planning has changed my life completely. To give you enough context about me so this entire article makes sense I’ll start with more recent events. About two years ago I made the decision that I was going to become a Millionaire. I had no plan, no guidance and not a clue on where to even begin. I spent the last two years busting my ass, maneuvering my way up the corporate ladder at a car dealership with the goal in mind to partner with the owners.
This was my “Plan” However, I didn’t really have a real plan other than I was going to work extremely long days and bust my ass. I was unsure of what I was even doing and how to get what I wanted. Fast forward 12 months into it and I had received my second promotion and the owners of the dealership group I worked for knew exactly who I was and they thought extremely highly of me.
It was about this time I realized “Why would these successful business owners need me as a partner in their business?” This instantly triggered my next thought “Why do I need to partner with them on my business?” I don’t. I can do it on my own and make it happen. At first I thought maybe I’d start my own Car Dealership, but as the days went by I realized that wasn’t my real passion.
I spent the next 15 months in Management helping train and manage the Sales Staff and even ran the Service department for one of the stores. I knew every job in the dealership and could perform it well. I learned a lot about business, but I was growing unhappy, stressed, and unmotivated. This was about 5 months ago. I met up with a group called “Grind Minds” Where a group of like minded individuals meet up and share ideas, process, and help implement and execute on things on a higher level. I instantly knew this would be amazing for me.
I got linked up with Elijah Grant at these meetings. Elijah has an immense focus on strategically planning things. I have an immense focus on executing on things in the moment. Between linking our different mind sets together I know I was able to start really planning things for the long term. I knew I needed to plug in with people who were where I needed to be. Business owners, Entrepreneurs, Published Authors, Millionaires, Successful people who were doing the things I had dreamed about growing up.
Since I have started truly strategically planning I have not only met almost a dozen Millionaires, I have began the process of Launching my first solo business venture and I am now 100% clear on exactly what I need to have accomplished over the next 6 months and exactly how to do it. You can have these exact things, I promise you. I’m not some super human guy, I don’t have a fancy college degree. I just started becoming more aligned with exactly what I wanted and I don’t let anything change the direction I’m headed unless it’s purely meant to be.
So align yourself with people who are where you want to be and doing the things you wish you could be doing, Partner up with someone who compliments your strengths and pulls from a completely different direction and make life happen!
Cole VanDeWoestyne
