Small Actions, Huge Results

I believe in having big dreams, gigantic dreams, right? Huge goals, things that you want to accomplish in your business and life. But what I want to talk about in today's biz growl is that it's the small things that will lead to those huge results that you're looking for. Hi there, this is Brent Kelly of bizgris with another five minute daily biz growl podcast. Mark Twain said progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. Just the other day I worked with a high growth organization. We played something called the Leadership Game. If you're curious about what that is, just go to my website and you can learn more about it. But I love playing this game because it addresses really important questions that many times aren't addressed often. And it opens up communication. It opens up deep, deeper thinking. One of my favorite questions that came up during this game with this group of leaders was this. The question was what is one habit that if you started today, would make a huge impact for your business in one to two years? What is one habit if you started today that would make a huge impact for your business in one to two years? And it's such an important question because it emphasizes a long term goal, long term vision coupled with daily actionable solutions. With a daily actionable solution, long term success. It isn't sexy. That's why most people don't reach their goals. Because if you ever talk to someone who's very successful and you get to know what they do day in and day out, you're like, oh, that maybe wasn't exciting as I thought. And I don't know about you though. I am a very impatient person. Naturally I want success now. My business that I have right now, I want things to happen now. I want results now. I want to make a huge difference today. And so for you, whether it be a business growth goal, maybe it's a sales goal that you're trying to hit, maybe it's a fitness goal or anything else. Most of us crave immediate results, but the reality is that the big results come from making these small, simple decisions every single day. And these small things aren't noticeable, but they're vital to our long term success. I love what Dave Ramsey said. Financial guru Dave Ramsey says be a crock pot, not a microwave. He talks about that from a financial sense, but it's very true in other things in our life as well. Be a crock pot. Let it take some time. There's a lot of books that really hit this principle. Great. I've read a couple of my favorites were the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and the Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. And they show examples of these small things that you can do in your life and your business that make phenomenal differences in your long term success. So let's just let me give you a couple examples, right? Like I have my four kids and they don't like to brush their teeth sometimes, right? If you don't brush your teeth tonight or tomorrow morning or whenever it is, the next time you should be brushing your teeth, right? If you do this for a couple days, other than some really bad breath, you're not going to notice any difference in your health, right? In the health of your teeth and your gums. But think about that over the course of weeks, months or years, right? Gross. Can you say tooth decay? Same thing is true in fitness, right? It's so great to look at like a 90 day result picture or 6 month result picture, whatever it is, and we see someone who has gone from not in shape at all to super fit, right? Whatever it is, you go, wow, look at that transformation. But you know, if you tried something with fitness that, you know, if you're doing a 90 day or a year program or ongoing, when you first start day three, day six, day nine, maybe day 15, you're not seeing that much of results. Things are happening, but they're not noticeable right away. Now in the business world and working with insurance professionals and insurance producers, you know, we want to land that big account, I know I always do. We want the new client, we want to make that huge connection that's going to change things. But you, it's not going to be one simple phone call, one simple drop in, one simple email, right? Oh, I just sent an email today, I just made a call and everything, my whole business has changed, right? That's part of it. But this takes time. It takes time to build credibility in your business. It takes time to build solid relationships. It takes time to build trust, especially in the insurance business, right? I always chuckle when I hear you see someone who's successful and this could be on social media or just having conversations or in a group setting and someone's successful and you hear people say, well, that must be nice, nice for them. Oh, an overnight success. I wonder how they got so lucky. Who do they know? And here's the thing, there are things that do happen for people sometimes that good opportunities present themselves. But here is, and I believe this is a fact, successful people work hard and they make consistent, small, smart decisions every day. They make the choices that may seem irrelevant at the time. But over the course of months and years. They add up to huge benefits. Here's what I want to get across in today's biz growl. Successful insurance professionals. Successful professionals of any kind. Successful people. They aren't always the smartest, but they have developed the best habits. Let me say that one more time. Successful people aren't always the smartest, but they have developed the best habits. What are some small actions that you could start to make every day? Now, again, this is totally got to be your own thing, personalized to you. These are just ideas. These are my things. Some things that I've started to do that have made some differences in my life. And by the way, let me be very clear, I am not perfect on these things. I struggle like everybody else. It's an ongoing process. But here's some things just to think about that I see successful people doing. They read something on personal development or listen to personal development for 5, 10, 15 minutes a day. If they're in sales, they're making five new business contacts every day. They don't have to go out and make 100 in a day. They're making some every day. They continue to grow that momentum, whatever that may be. And again, that's just an example. They get up a half hour earlier, right? Not just to get up half hour to watch tv, but get up a half, half hour earlier to do something productive or something important to get their day started right. They take some time to greet someone with a smile versus just walking past them. They spend every day working on their body, maybe 30, 30 minutes working out every day. They take time every day to ask questions and learn from other people. And they take time to reflect on each and every day. Now, again, these are just examples. And none of these choices are going to make you an overnight success, right? In fact, doing any of those types of things, you're not going to notice anything right away. But that's why creative creating and keeping positive habits is so challenging, right? Because you don't see the results right away. So people quit. But let me also say this. It's also why it's the most important. I'm going to leave you with one question and I want you to think about this and answer it honestly because it's that important. What is? One habit. One habit that if you started today, would make a huge impact in your business in the next one to two years. Thanks for listening to another daily Biz Growl podcast. Again, my name is Brent Kelly of Bizgris. 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