Give “The Simple” Everything You’ve Got

Sometimes success can be just plain simple. In fact, it often has to be simple.

This Saturday, January 23rd, my chapter of the National Speakers Association will be putting on the full day Growing Your Business with Mark LeBlanc at the Renaissance Philadelphia hotel. It is a great program that any small business owner or independent professional needs to attend.

I have seen Mark’s program, and I have his book, Growing Your Business. The last page of the book has this very simple bit of advice:

Give “The Simple” everything you’ve got.

This is a powerful bit of advice that everyone would do well to follow (I have written on the concept of the simple before in my post, Success Can Be Simple, But Maybe Not Easy…).

Mark’s book and program are “simple,” but very effective. The point he is making is that the key to success is to trust the process and then focus on simple activities you can do daily, weekly, and monthly to build momentum and make progress.

Now is the time of year when people are running around making grand resolutions to completely turn their life around. Mark calls these “Great Commitments.” You’ve seen them. You’ve done them. Heck, you may be in the middle of one right now!

They’ll be familiar: “As of today, I will workout two hours a day and eat nothing but healthy food!” “Starting Monday I will make 100 cold calls a day!” “I am committed! I will absolutely write 4,000 words per day on my novel, everyday until it is done!”

Nice ideas. The problem is that they rarely last. To quote Mark, “these commitments and resolutions are usually broken in a short period of time.”

A much better idea is to keep it simple, stupid. Identify the simple things that:

1. Will progress you towards your goal, even if occasionally no progress seems to being made (trust the process!)
2. You can do on a very regular basis.

This approach will:

1. Build Momentum
2. Build habits
3. Move you towards your goal

Take a look at the resolutions or goals you have made this year (whether you have gotten off track or not). Are they simple? Are they things that can be done regularly? Will they lead to long term success?

If not, and if and when you find your energy and focus on “the great commitments” failing, try switching to simple activities you can do every day.

And remember: Give “The Simple” everything you’ve got!

To hear more of Mark’s awesome wisdom (straight from the horse’s mouth!” sign up now to attend Growing Your Business at the Renaissance Philadelphia hotel on Saturday, January 23rd.

When: Saturday, January 23, 8am-5pm
Where: Renaissance Philadelphia

Registration:
Non-members and guests: $159 (a $499 value)
NSA Philadelphia Members: $129 (a $499 value)

And here’s a video from the man himself:

More info and sign up here!

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