Here’s the Ultimate Game Plan to ride into 2021 with massive success in your business and personal life. Follow these steps and you will CRUSH it.
1. Have A Growth Mindset
If you ain’t growing, you’re dying. You must be learning and evolving and getting 1% better every day. If you’re looking for a tool to help, I encourage you to Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Part of your 2021 transformation needs to come around your identity. You needs to identity as someone who can focus better, achieve more, and bounce back from anything. Your identity is a key element of your success.
For example, when I changed my identity from a guy with “blue collar trucker mouth” to a “British gentleman that does not curse” it became a lot easier to quit cussing in a few days.
So if you want to make millions, you need to change your identity from “always working, overwhelmed solopreneur” to “Empire Thinking CEO”. That shift – and learning to fully believe in your new identity – is essential to having your best year ever.
My longtime friend and client, Ron Mourra, made this shift years ago, and last week he said:
“Craig, I have made more money, worked less, played more golf in the last 2
years compared to the previous 6 years! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
I love being coached by you. Best is yet to come, 2021 will be even BETTER!”
Over to you!
2. Constant Innovation
What got you here won’t get you there… Read that again. What got you here, won’t get you there. Your skills, your ads, your copy, your video, your network, and your ability to set aside your ego and ask for help must get better. Get 1% better every day!
3. Commitment to Your Vision
Michelle and I spent all of Black Friday going through my Perfect Day Kit Vision booklets as well as my Perfect Life Workshop materials to design our 2021 and future. It was life changing and dramatically strengthened our relationship.
It reminded me of a big lesson… You see, over the last 20 years of my coaching career, I’ve discovered what TRULY motivates someone to change their life…
It’s not money or stuff… It’s their BIG WHY… which often means people and experiences.
What’s your Big WHY?
Get crystal clear here and you’ll have rocket-fuel energy so you show up every day at your best.
4. Recruiting & Retaining Great Talent
You can’t do this alone.
Set your EGO aside… Step up your leadership… And surround yourself with the best of the best.
Commit to weekly team meetings (WAM), weekly 1-on-1 meetings (GS&R) with your top reports, and some type of regular daily communication system with your team (whether it’s a “War Room” like we do or a daily huddle or daily video message to your team).
Communication of your mission and vision is key to keeping your team on track.
NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with the meetings I mentioned, please watch
the videos in our ETR course called Management Rhythms Blueprint.
These meetings take work… but in the long run they actually help you work less and make more… my commitment to these meetings this year allowed us to have our best year since 2015.
5. Resilience & Persistence to Make Things Work
Everyday you will get up and get knocked down.
It’s called the Entrepreneur Roller Coaster for a reason.
But you’re going to beat it through your relentless resilience and commitment to persistence.
Never, ever, EVER give up on what is important to you!
(See rule #3 to figure out what that is!)
BTW, I need you to start thinking about your BIG goals for Jan-March 2021…
… and then MAKE THAT GOAL BIGGER!
Set a goal that shifts your thinking.
If what got you here won’t get you there, then doing more of the same – but only “more of it”, will only stretch your resources and stress your mind.
Bigger goal setting … whether you set a BHAG
(big hairy audacious goals) or 10X your goals…
requires you to think different.
Last week Adam Pearson and I discussed raising his 2021 goals from $5 million to $10 million.
Now we were having a completely different conversation…
• About WHO to hire…
• About HOW to generate the new business…
• And about WHAT the team had to look like in order to deliver this service…
So think about it…
What if you doubled or tripled your business?
Would your business “break”… if so, where? If yes, how do we fix that? Who do we need? How do we need to start acting differently now to prepare for it?
So if you’re going to think, why not think BIGGER!
And then get Accountability to Someone You DEEPLY Do NOT Want to Disappoint… so that you stick to your habits that will make your dreams a reality.
Sincerely,
Craig Ballantyne