What have you done for your business today?

You’ve probably heard it before: a key ingredient to growing and maintaining a strong and healthy Stampin’ Up! business is consistency.  Yet for the vast majority of us, we have so much going on in our daily lives, so many demands on our time,  that it can be easy to let other things take precedent.  It can be a real conundrum can’t it? 

I think the biggest problem often stems from the fact that whenever we sit down to try and tackle a business-related task, it seems so big and overwhelming, and it seems to require so much time.  Which is why we often resort to procrastination.  We tell ourselves, “I just don’t have time to prep for that workshop right now”, or “I just don’t have time to make follow-up calls to my customers”.  So we decide to wait until we actually have a chunk of time in which to do it.  The problem of course is that that free chunk of time rarely shows itself.  Next thing we know, it’s been several months since the trade show and we still haven’t made our follow up calls to the leads we got.  And “well, we can’t possibly call now” we tell ourselves.  Before you know it, the money you invested in the trade show is wasted.  Maybe it’s not a trade show, maybe it’s contacts you got at an event you hosted, or a workshop you did. Either way, it’s business opportunities lost. Does this scenario sound familiar? 

So how do we get a handle on this and stop the vicious cycle?  The best way to break this cycle is to train yourself to do 1 thing for your business every day.  It could be one phone call.  Make one card.  Put together one hostess packet.  Send out 1 thank you card….

Just one SMALL action everyday is all it takes to get you started on the path to consistency.  What you’ll often find is, that that simple act will help get you into a business mindset, and will lead to more.  And if it doesn’t on a particular day, then you can still rest easy knowing one more thing on your to do list has been crossed off.