BRX Pro Tip: New Habits, Small Actions
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, when it comes to establishing new habits, one of the best strategies – and you’ve shared this with me – is to take small daily action as opposed to big heroic efforts.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:21] Yeah. To me, it’s a lot easier to begin a habit or to begin any type of a system by doing a little bit every day rather than doing something every other day or even once a week. It’s a lot easier to make that activity really part of your routine, if it’s done every day.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:44] Now, if you can create systems that help you do the most important things that drive growth in your business every day, then these habits can move the needle in your business and become a habit that really benefits from that compounding effect.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:00] The problem with doing things, you know, every other day or weekly, it’s harder to really incorporate that into your day because every day is a little different. So, it’s easy to then say, “Well, I didn’t do it today. I’ll do it tomorrow.” And then, all of a sudden, you’re not doing it anymore.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:16] So, if you can kind of say, like one example in our business, “I’m going to get guests for my whole show.” It’s a lot easier to say, “Okay. Everyday, I’m just going to ask one person to be a guest on my show. Everyday, when I wake up in the morning, I’m drinking my coffee, I’m going to invite one person on the show.” If you do that everyday, at the end of the week, you’ll have invited five to seven people. And you’re going to be able to fill your pipeline with prospective guests for your show.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:46] If you say, “Every week, I’m going to do that and I’m going to get five or ten guests on Saturday,” that’s great if you can have the discipline to do that, and put it in your calendar, and do it every week. But there’s a bigger likelihood of you missing one Saturday. If you miss one Saturday, guess what? Now, it’s two weeks have gone by since the last time you’ve done this, and that’s going to make a big difference. But if you were doing it every single day, you’re not going to fall that far behind. One miss isn’t going to be kind of catastrophic and lose the momentum.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:17] So, it’s a lot easier to just do a little something every day. But in order to do that, I would put it in my calendar and block the time and really do that. Make it a non-negotiable part of your day. And take a little bit of an action and something that’s a meaningful act that’s going to move the needle in your business. So, if you can identify a handful of things that can move the needle in your business, and then incorporate those things, and drill it down to a little bitty action, you’re going to be a lot more successful a lot faster.
