Success comes from constantly assessing the results from actions you take and adjusting, depending on what is or is not working. If something you’re doing is not successful, you need to change it or try something new. The funny thing is that the flip side is the same: if something you’re doing is successful, it helps to tweak or change it to see if it can be even more successful.
Trying something new is good for you. You can work on how you generate or create business, how you organize your workspace, or you can stop at the corner coffee shop in the morning and meet your neighbors, other professionals, and business owners who stopped in for a drink or snack.
Going back to your actions that are not successful or if you’re on a bad streak, the problem is you. But this isn’t what you may be thinking. Odds are you are stuck in routine and probably just doing the things that used to work for you. Every day is a new world with options for you to change something. If you don’t, you will live the Groundhog’s Day scenario of the same actions getting the same results.
One idea is to connect and reconnect with people. I know some people may be rolling their eyes because they prefer to connect electronically with little or no actual human interaction. Know that life previously required you to meet and interact with others to create success and doing so still drives business because of the connections we forge with others.
Make a list and call someone from that list each morning. If you want to dip your toe in, you can do so in three to five minutes a day. Choose someone you know and haven’t spoken to in a while and call them just to say “hi” and that you are thinking of them. You can keep the call short by telling them that your time that morning is limited, and that you would like to meet them for coffee or something similar. That personal touch means something and means everything.
If that doesn’t sound like your gig, come up with something else to try and do it regularly to see if it works. And then, whether it works or not, tweak or change it to see if you can make it work or make it work better.
Don’t let the success or lack of success of what you’re doing be stagnant. Change things up. Interact with people. Take action. Continue to invest in yourself.
