As business owners and entrepreneurs, each of us invests our time and money in information. Each month, you receive a massive amount of materials from various sources: wisdom, techniques, ways to market, ways to earn money and tips on how to make your business more successful. You may go to conventions and seminars and invest in educational books, DVDs and CD materials – and then you spend time listening to those CDs and viewing those DVDs.One of the biggest complaints I hear from many business owners and entrepreneurs is that they have NO TIME to study the information they receive each month, which makes them feel guilty or frustrated. I have a wonderful solution that I promise will bring you to a new level of time integrity. You will learn to funnel knowledge through this concept called an IDEA DAY.
I challenge you to schedule an “IDEA DAY” once a month. If you really want to TAKE BACK YOUR POWER and have TRUE INTEGRITY with self, then schedule the time to seed your mind with materials, newsletters, magazines, books, CDs and videos, which have the educational value to help you reach your business and life goals. You must take charge of the caliber of information that goes into your brain.
We all talk a good game about learning, but unless you actually schedule the time, daily life will become a barrier to your best intentions to learn the skills, attitudes, wisdom and knowledge you need to achieve the level of success you desire. TODAY, I want you to have real Integrity with yourself and your investment of education. This is a new strategy that you may never have used, but if you decide to commit and implement an IDEA DAY, then it will immediately pay huge dividends for your business and personal life.
Please don’t dismiss this concept immediately, with the rationalization, “I don’t have time to schedule an entire day for learning.” If you dismiss this advice, then I promise it will be detrimental to your business. You can implement a new IDEA DAY monthly; and, if you will keep an open mind and plan to spend a day reviewing knowledge that you have paid for, but have not had time to implement, then the results will amaze you! Starting with the current month, please schedule one full day each month on your calendar that will be dedicated to your IDEA DAY.
One of my coaching members called this day the HUMP DAY. He said HUMP stands for Help Unleash Maximum Potential. I could not have said it better myself! We all want to unleash our maximum potential, which can be done by having some time integrity with ourselves. Actually spend time reading and studying the materials you have invested in and look for BIG IDEAS to assist you to generate new profits, new ways of doing things and new ways to make life easier!
Create an Idea Box, drawer or anyplace you can store materials you want to study. Before your appointed Idea Day, put newsletters and important books you want to read (but simply keep putting off because of no clear scheduled time) into your IDEA DAY storage place. Include information from any of the sources that send you printed materials and educational CDs and DVDs that may still be in their cellophane wrappers or sitting on a shelf. Start collecting materials that you have wanted to study, but simply have never given yourself permission to take the time. Use your awareness skills to determine what is important for you to study and learn from your Idea Day. Be discerning about what goes in your mind for you to come up with a BIG IDEA.
