A short YouTube motivational message (Dec 23, 2023) presenting the idea of a "separation season": the end-of-year (Q4) period when many people slow down, creating an opportunity for others to gain a competitive edge by working harder, developing systems, and closing gaps in progress. The speaker emphasizes balancing intensive work with family time and rest, and encourages pushing now to make 2024 materially different from 2023.
As we're getting to the end of the year, it's Q4, and a lot of people are slowing down in their business right now. And I saw this post, and I can't remember exactly who it was from, but it had a really good point. And they called this separation season. And I think that's really true because it's this time when everyone else is slowing down, cooling off, they're putting their business to the side. This is when you can go all in and really close the gap on where you are to where you want to be. And you can actually lap people who are ahead of you simply by getting and putting in more work in this season of the year. Right. Rather than just cooling off, chilling out, not doing as much work, and just hoping and praying that things change next year. And this isn't to say don't spend time with your family, because I think that's super important, and I think resting and refueling is super important as well. But at the end of the day, if you want to separate yourself from other people, you can't do what everyone else is doing. So as everyone else is kind of hunkering down for the winter, they're slowing down, they're cooling off. You need to go all in and really push yourself to develop new systems and new processes so that 2024 isn't like 2023.
