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TPE S1 E35 | Focusing On Results

 

In business, having a vision of where you want to go is the first step. Without a vision, your business will lack direction, and you will almost find it impossible to grow. In today’s short episode, Don Williams talks about the importance of having a vision and focusing on the results rather than the gaps. When you focus on the end game, what you go through on your way to your goals will not be as burdensome as that might otherwise be.

For information on how to work with Don visit Work With Don Williams
You can also reach out to Don Williams at https://donwilliamsglobal.com
Please join Don and his businesses in support of St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital in its Mission to cure Childhood Cancers. You can donate to St. Jude at stjude.org/donate

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Don’t Focus On The Gap, Focus On The Result

How Entrepreneurs Reach Goals

Let’s talk about the gap and results. I was on the telephone with a great entrepreneur. I had not seen her in several years, but she’s a good friend, a very strong leader, and I love her to death. As I see her on our video conference call, I’m like, “You have lost a ton of weight.” She shared with me and said, “Thank you very much. I’m down about 60 pounds.” I was like, “That is incredible. It’s very hard, very difficult thing to lose weight, quit smoking, and things like that.”

She shared with me that she had Yo-Yo’ed on the weight loss for most of her life, taken it off, and put it back on. This time, she felt like it was permanent. I asked her if she would share her experience on what led her to success because the same principles with a big goal like weight loss are the same principles we would use to hit a business goal.

TPE S1 E35 | Focusing On Results
Focusing On Results: The biggest common denominator between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs is that successful entrepreneurs do things or take actions that unsuccessful entrepreneurs are not willing to do.

 

She said, “Don, it’s all about the gap and the results.” I was like, “Do tell. I’d love to hear about the gap and results.” Here’s what she told me. She said, “All my life, when I attempted to lose weight and manage my health in a more positive manner, I focused on the gap. The gap was, ‘Here’s what I need to be doing now to end up where I want to go.’ If you focus on the gap, ‘I’m going to cut my caloric intake. I’m going to begin this exercise regimen. I’m going to withhold alcohol from my diet,” or all of the different things that it takes to lose weight. We know it’s basically caloric intake versus outtake. If you burn more calories than you consume, your body loses weight. If you do the opposite, your body gains weight.

All her life, every time she had done it, she had focused on the gap. It was uncomfortable, and it required change, and things she didn’t like to do. We know in success in business, many successful entrepreneurs will share that the biggest common denominator between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs is that successful entrepreneurs do things or take actions that unsuccessful entrepreneurs are not willing to do.

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In her weight loss previously, she had focused almost exclusively on the pain, the uncomfortableness, and her dislike of what she had to do in the gap. She said, “This time, I focused strictly on the results. I kept the results where I was going to be in front of my mind. I enjoyed the feeling I would have when I hit that goal. I’m manifesting that in my mind. My reticular activator,” that part of your brain that works for you even when you’re not aware of it, “makes the activities and the gap seem less undesirable.”

We know in business that having a vision of where you want to go is job one. That’s the same thing as the result. If we keep the end in mind, in the beginning, we know where we’re going to end up, how we’re going to feel, and we know the enjoyment that we’re going to have in our vision. Then what we do in the interim is not as burdensome as it might otherwise be. I want to encourage you to focus on the results, not the gap. Make big things happen in your life too. Thank you so much.

 

For information on how to work with Don visit Work With Don Williams
You can also reach out to Don Williams at https://donwilliamsglobal.com
Please join Don and his businesses in support of St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital in its Mission to cure Childhood Cancers. You can donate to St. Jude at stjude.org/donate

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