photo by Danny Olanes

This week I would like to share a personal story.

As many of you know, I recently left my employer of 10 years and went to work full-time on my Internet Marketing / Web Design business (http://www.wdu.net). This has been a transition phase of my life as I learn to do many of the things that were done by others when I worked for my former employer. Being a business owner means that I am 100% responsible for everything from accounting to sales.

Time management techniques for planning and control are paramount to keeping ourselves on track. If we don’t feel like using the techniques, we often allow ourselves to stop using them. One day slips quietly into another without seeing measurable progress.

Many times we know what to do, but getting ourselves to do it is the challenge. We’ve all been there. It’s the week that we didn’t plan; it’s the day or days that slip by without giving it our all. This is often caused by our feelings, emotions or by the mental state that we are in. If we allow ourselves to fall into a funk, it can be hard to crawl out of that funk to do what we need to do. It takes real discipline.

So just like a bad day, a bad week has to be shaken off. You must tell yourself that this week is a brand new week that is full of promise. As Anthony Robbins writes, “The past does not equal the future.” and so it is up to us to decide to start fresh again and go back to our course of action, which is pushing towards our goals. Just because you had a bad week doesn’t mean you’re done; it just means that you had a bad week. It means you’re human and you have temporarily lost your focus.

If you’re at the same place in your life as I am, I encourage you to do what I am doing. Learn something from what went wrong, where you went off course then re-establish yourself within a framework of success. What worked best for me was taking a pad of paper and a pen and getting deep into nature with no one else around. I spent time quietly reaffirming my goals, thinking about why I do these things that I do, and creating new action plans.

Allow yourself time to come back around and get moving again. You can do it!