Businessball
Git yer glove
an’ git in the game!
Keep your eye on the ball! Catch the ball! Throw the ball! See the ball! Hit the ball! This is not advanced calculus, statistical derivation, chemical formulae, rocket science or brain surgery. It’s simple concentration. Concentration.
Odds are that the business or professional practice owner, partner, operator, or manager who has been blessed with strong concentration skills has put her or his business way ahead of the game . . . is already keeping an eye on the ball, and achieving the success that many entrepreneurs merely dream about.
- Can you edit a technical report on a work-from-home day while the TV blares, the kids scream and the neighbor’s dog barks incessantly at scampering squirrels?
- Can you outline a strategic plan while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic?
- Can you draft your tax return while chaperoning a birthday party at Chucky Cheese?
- Can you write a publishable poem while touring or working on an active construction site?
- Can you read and grasp a chapter in Follett’s Fall of Giants or Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram or Gruber’s The Book of Air and Shadows (or extract some meaningful business guidance from the Bible?) while you’re sitting in Grand Central Station at rush hour?
If you answer “Yes” to any of the above, you can probably answer “Yes” to all of the above, and probably need no help or pep talk today, and should just go your merry way and return Saturday for some new stimulation. Adios y gracias!
Now, if you’re still here, allow me to suggest that you might start exploring ways to start out “on the ball” every day, all day long. Because that’s what it will take if you expect to catch that shooting star you fantasize about. You thought maybe you could take a pass an hour or two a day or a day or two a week? Sorry Charlie!
But it’s so hard! So is success! Unless of course you choose for it to be easy, in which case it will definitely be easier than if you choose for it to be hard! Got it? It’s all a matter of improving your concentration skills and ability to focus full attention on what you’re doing AS you’re doing it — on keeping your mind in the here-and-now present moment.
People with great concentration skills are those who understand that their pulse and heartbeats and breathing are the most immediate human signals of here-and-nowness.
If you’re an entrepreneur and dismiss these kinds of messages off-hand, don’t waste the negative energy.
You cannot ignore yourself and expect your business to win!
If you believe —as most of the thousands of small business principals I’ve known seem to me to believe– that you are here in your business and community, on this planet, to make a difference, you need to accept that the place to start and to keep your eye on the ball with is your SELF. Here’s one place to begin or booster-shot that journey.
Play Businessball every day (and Familyball too for the positiveness and high energy it will prompt). Everything will grow with your growing focus. Get it. Grow it. Keep it. Spread it around.
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302.933.0116 or Hal@BusinessWorks.US
Thanks for visiting. Go for your goals! God Bless You.
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!” [Thomas Jefferson]
Hal, great wisdom as usual. I think focus is becoming one of the key issues for entrepreneurs to deal with due to the number of distractions coming from every direction on a constant basis. It takes a LOT of discipline to block out concentrated, uninterrupted blocks of time to work on a single project or piece of a project.
Thanks for your regular reminders that help to keep us on track!
Thank YOU, Meredith. I appreciate that you visit, and that you take the time and trouble to comment as well. On top of all that, it’s so refreshing to hear a professional voice be so tuned in and perceptive. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
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