{"id":108,"date":"2022-04-11T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:06:27","slug":"i-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/openmind\/i-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So often, when we talk about our businesses, we talk about what we need to do.<br>&#8220;I need a better xyz system.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I need to do x.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Everyone says I need to \u2026&#8221;<br>The question we need to ask next is &#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Why do you need to do anything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>So often we get sucked into the rules of our business, the musts and the have tos.<br>&#8220;You have to be on social media.&#8221;<br>&#8220;You have to make a hour of calls per day to your database.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Isn&#8217;t it exhausting to have to do things you don&#8217;t want to do because everyone says you have to?<br>Isn&#8217;t it draining to feel bad about all the things you&#8217;re not doing, that you think you should be doing?<br>Isn&#8217;t it frustrating that when you do the things you&#8217;re supposed to, they don&#8217;t quite work how everyone says they should?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It&#8217;s time to change the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>First off, you don&#8217;t need to do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>There is no one way to accomplish the goal you are working towards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>There is no direct path, one set of rules to follow, or one guaranteed system that will work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>What works is taking action that you are inspired by, action that you decide is the path to your results.<br>What works is you taking a stand that you can achieve your goals, what you want is not only possible, but available with the right actions.<br>What works is not following anyone else&#8217;s rules or systems that you think you should follow but creating your own path, creating your systems, that align with your values, your personality and your commitments.<br>What works is knowing there will be challenges and roadblocks and they are not going to stop you from achieving your dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For today, try these three exercises:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>1: Get present to your goals and dreams for your business?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a few minutes to get present to your why &#8211; why do you do what you do?<br>What do your clients and customers get by working with you?<br>What results are you out to produce by the difference you and your business make?<br>What you do is far less important than why you do it &#8211; your what is just the means to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2: Look at the items on your calendar and todo list.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<p>Are there appointments, meetings or todo items that you really don&#8217;t want to do?<br>If so, either don&#8217;t do them OR get present to how they will help you achieve your goals.<br>If they don&#8217;t serve your dreams and visions, don&#8217;t do them.<br>If they do serve your intentions, do them with passion and vigor to produce the outcome you want most.<br>If there are items on your todo list that have been there for a long time &#8211; and you haven&#8217;t done them &#8211; take them off the list.<br>Why do you keep dragging them along?<br>Admit that you&#8217;re not going to do them. Then, find another way to achieve the result that item might have created for you &#8211; something that you will actually do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3: be grateful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Take a few minutes to be grateful for all you have, and all the opportunity you have to make a difference for yourself, your family, friends, clients, people you meet and the world.<br>Know that people rely on you and appreciate you, in ways that you have no idea about.<br>Let (at least) one person in your world know something you are grateful for about them &#8211; someone who always makes you smile, someone who has gone out of their way for you, someone who you&#8217;ve been thinking about and haven&#8217;t talked to for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to do anything. You could have your life inspire you though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>You could have your actions create the future you&#8217;re committed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>You could live life by your design, not by default following someone else&#8217;s rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Freedom, joy and power is available to you at any moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often, when we talk about our businesses, we talk about what we need to do.&#8220;I need a better xyz &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/openmind\/i-need-to\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/planvsreality.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawadoor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}