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Get Back In The Game
dymond phillips • Oct 13, 2021
Less Than Three Months Left In 2021
Can you believe it’s already October 13th? I feel like I just woke up and we were in the fourth quarter of the year. It’s so many amazing things happening in the fourth quarter. It’s fall, holidays like Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas are around the corner. Before you know it, it’s going to be a new year. I started off Q3, July 1st, super motivated and focused, but towards the end I completely fell off. Today I took some time to look at the goals that I set for myself during the fast and at the top of the year. It’s so easy to get caught up in day-to-day, that you lose sight of what you want long term. If you didn’t write any goals for the year, take some time to write what you want your last three months of 2021 to look like. I set financial, business, and even personal goals. When it comes to setting goals, you want to reverse engineer. Start with the long term goals, which will help with the short term goals, which will ultimately set the tone for your monthly, weekly and even daily goals and tasks.
Aside from goals, how do you want to mentally be for the rest of the year. If you’re like me, and fell off, this is the perfect time to get back on track. Think about life like a basketball game, it’s four quarters in a game. A lot of times by the fourth quarter, the players are tired and on the bench. It’s time to get your spark back. Last year, the Lakers won game six and became the 2020 champions for the first time in 10 years. After losing game five, the Lakers could have gone into the new game defeated, but they didn’t. You cannot let the failures and trials stop you from finishing the game. You have to get that spark and drive you had in the first quarter back, this season. Last year, the Lakers were able to come back and win game six, because they were determined. To be determined means, "having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.'' You have to be set on going for your goals and dreams, no matter what life throws at you.
Right now, is the time to really go for what it is that you want, because who knows what next year will bring. Stop quitting when it gets hard. Achieving goals never happens in a linear way. People expect to start a business in January and become millionaires by March, but that is not how that happens. Maybe you’ve quit your job to focus on your business, but your business is not bringing in the revenue right now to fund itself. You may need to get another job until the time is right. Sometimes in order to live your dreams, your reality has to fund your dreams, until your dreams can fund your reality. Don’t put your life off. It takes a while to figure things out. When things get tough or you make the wrong decision, you have to keep going. Every failure is step to success. If you’re not failing, that means you’re not doing anything. Maybe you set a fitness goal and you fell off. That’s ok, just don’t allow yourself to stay there. Whatever it is, it's time to get on track.
It’s time to get back in the game. Get back focused. Don’t wait until next year. Don’t throw in the towel. When you’re learning to ride a bike and you fall off, you have to get back up and try again. 2021 isn’t over! Get back focused. I talk a lot about refocusing because it's so easy to fall off. You will get tired, you will get confused, you will get defeated, BUT you can't stay there. "Pick yourself up, shake the past off. Put one foot in front of another and do it again.''
