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If you’ve read my book Overcome Chaos or talked to me at length about entrepreneurship, you’ve heard me emphasize the importance of your life vision and rhythm of execution. Establishing these elements will give you peace of mind, confidence and consistency as you contribute to building and growing what you are promoting. Thanks to it, you will achieve your goals and dreams easily and predictably.
But while this sounds great in theory, what does it actually mean in practice? And the best way to turn into a champion? Here are some quick suggestions.
1. Connect with your vision for life
To establish your rhythm of implementation, you must first define your vision of life. This includes your skilled identity, purpose, values, mission and goals, in addition to the five areas of your personal life: spiritual, physical, social, business and financial. Once you have that framework, you create a plan to perform those goals, that is what rhythm of execution is.
However, it is greater than just a set of habits. Instead, think of it as a recurring habit pattern designed with great intention, tailored to your strengths and weaknesses to help you achieve necessary business and personal goals. It will help you connect your days and weeks with a vision of living in a sustainable way that will help you achieve your goals. As far as I’m concerned, it definitely beats the chaos that the majority entrepreneurs accept.
2. Establish your rhythm of performance
Now let’s move on to the practical issue. Your performance rhythm is the rhythm of essential morning, each day and weekly activities that set your goals in five areas of your life. In other words, it is the strategy of intentionally designing days and weeks that will be exciting for you.
By stacking lately and weeks on top of each other, you tie them to your monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals. You then mix these one-year goals with three-year goals, which, you guessed it, result in 10-year goals and lifetime goals in your life vision. The three most vital parts of the execution rhythm you need to finish are morning mastery, weekly victories, and quarterly retreats. If you master them, what you are promoting and life will change. Here’s a little more about each of them:
- Your morning mastery is waking up early and nourishing your mind, body and spirit.
- Your weekly wins involve designing winning weeks that you enjoy, where you evaluate the previous week and plan for the next one.
- During quarterly retreats, you take time to evaluate the short-term and connect it to the long-term. They are your bridge from day-to-day implementation to long-term implementation.
3. Make it exciting
If you’re an entrepreneur, your eyes may already be glazing over. Listen, I understand. Most of us began our own business because we hated structure and desired to be accountable only to ourselves. That’s why you have to make the rhythm of your performance something you like, something that is exciting and attracts you every time.
If you rely on discipline to get through it, that is nice, but it will break down. Instead, focus on desire over discipline. I’ve experienced it personally. I really like my routine. I really like what I do because I make it fun, exciting and rewarding. There is a payoff in this. Why would not I do that? By the way, that is why it’s called rhythm and not routine. Nobody wants routine and ruts. Nobody wants stiffness. So it has to be something that keeps you on track, but does it in a fun and beautiful way.
4. Eliminate excuses
Whenever I talk about morning mastery, I get a lot of responses from people, mostly the refrain: “I’m not a morning person, Clate.” Here’s the deal. Mastering your morning routine has been proven to work, and I’m just the messenger.
Still, you don’t have to get up at five or six in the morning if it looks like it’s crushing your soul. If you’re not a morning person, you can still manage your earliest hours by getting up a little sooner than usual. Invest in yourself and get up 10, 20, 60 or 90 minutes sooner than before. You may even create different versions of your morning mastery and do whatever you find time for that day. Just do it and see if it doesn’t change your life.
Mastering the rhythm of execution is essential to designing the life and business you envision as an entrepreneur. There is no single recipe for exactly what you should do, but the principles provided here are solid and tested and will take you far.