This week brings a close to the 3rd quarter of the year, and makes way for the final 90 day sprint. How are you tracking on the big goals you set at the beginning of this year?
Wherever you stand with your property goals, you can still win in Q4!
All games in the sporting field and in business typically come down to the final push. That’s when the deadline of the final whistle causes most points to be scored, and it’s when the retail industry make the majority of annual salesThis is our last 90 day cycle of the year, so lets make it count. Inside each 90 day cycle we have multiple smaller cycles – monthly, weekly, daily and then hourly time block cycles. You get to decide what goes in them to access the highest leveraged version of you.
To help get you fired up for the last quarter, I’m borrowing a page out of this week’s ‘finish strong’ messages from Darren Hardy- here’s a quick summary of three Olympic finishes he referenced to inspire our final push for the year.
#1- The example of Billie Mills, who in the 1964 Olympic 10K race, emerged from behind the front 2 runners to win Gold in the final stretch. He had never run the 10K in under 29 minutes while the race leader held a world record of 28.15. His winning time of 28:24.4 was almost 50 seconds faster than he had run before and set a new Olympic record for the event. He was the first American to with the 10K and remains the only one still.
[Message – even at the end of a tiring year long race, you can still draw the strength to finish strong with a sprint to the finish line.]
#2 There’s nobody better at finishing a race stronger or harder than Michael Phelps, winner of 23 Olympic Gold Medals. To reach his target of 8 Gold Medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics it was all down to his final race, the 100m Butterfly. In that race Phelps won by just ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second over Serbia’s Milorad Cavic.
Post race he admitted that his winning margin of one-hundredth of a second was almost impossible to see, but it was because of…ONE SMALL DIFFERENCE.
“On the final stroke Cavic lifted his head up just slightly which acted as a mini speed bump and I kept my head down streamlined.”
[Message – Small stuff matters a lot! Do all the little things right as all the slight edges add up. Keep your head down, stay focused and streamlined on your goal right to the finish line.]
#3 The example of GB Athlete Derek Redmond who, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, tore his hamstring in the 400 metres semi-final. Having collapsed to the ground in agony, he courageously picked himself up to try limping to the finish. With assistance from his father, and against the wishes of Olympic officials, he managed to complete the full lap of the track as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
[Message: Sometimes we need the strong shoulder of someone else to finish, don’t be afraid to ask for support or accept help. You may also need to wave off the naysayers who try to stop you doing it your way.]
These sporting examples that Darren had picked out served as the perfect analogy for different circumstances we might find ourselves in with our business goals in the final stretch. They certainly helped stoke the fires under my proverbial behind and I hope it does the same for you.
To finish, here are some closing words borrowed from the man Darren,
“How strong we finish 2019 will determine how fast we start 2020, and the momentum will carry us far ahead”.
Who’s committed to finishing the year strong?