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Hey there..

Let's talk about managing expectations.

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Failing to properly manage expectations is one of the biggest reasons for failure in many of our endeavors.

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Let’s see what we can do about that right now.

First of all...

Yes I know I've often said today is a great day to start over smarter...

There's a context to that...

But...

The fact still remains that:

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1. The number in our bank account is a result of the decisions we've made from the moment it was opened until right now.
2. The amount of body fat we are carrying is a result of every decision we made from the day we were born until right now.
3. Net worth is a result of every risk taken and reward reaped from the day you start making your own decisions up until now.

There is no reset button.

Everything is in constant motion toward a conscious or unconscious destination.

January 1st 2023 is not an opportunity for a new picture...

It's simply a moment in an ongoing full length story.

You can influence the ending...

But you can't change the story so far...

It's important that we understand that.

The sooner we start focusing on our life story as a whole rather than focusing on specific moments in time...

The better we will all be.

For sometime I ran a pet project called the 21 day pot belly challenge.

For $1000...

I helped politicians and corporate executives loose their pot bellies and 21 kg in 21 to 30 days...

Crazy right?

What's crazier was that my strategy for marketing was to simply add on crazy weight...

And then loose it in 21 days as I lead the program.

If you only met me during my fattening periods...

You'd say I was consistently fat...

You'd miss the whole picture.

That snap shot would tell you where I was in the moment...

But it wouldn't tell you anything about where I was headed.

Now make no mistake...

I have stopped that bit of foolishness and currently no longer run that program...

My choices had consequences...

And I'll tell you about that in a few days...

For now...

My point is...

When it comes to managing your expectations...

Get the whole picture.

Nothing happens in a straight line.

Your weight is going to fluctuate every day.

Your revenue is going to fluctuate every month.

Your profit margins are going to fluctuate weekly, monthly, yearly.

The goal is never to remove the fluctuations...

The goal is to minimize the difference between the highs and lows.

Every peak will be a little higher than the previous peak.

Every valley is a little higher than the previous valley.

Doing better than your best is difficult...

Doing better than your worst is relatively easy.

That's why the fastest path to improvement is...

Simply eliminating the worst lows.

Do that and you get a MASSIVE improvement results over time.

The trick, though, is to know what to focus on.

We all tend for focus on a snapshot of a moment of our lives...

And use that as a basis for judging the whole...

Rather then taking the time to get the whole story.

I think that's rather puerile at best...

(yep learned a new word)

Dangerous at worst.

At Start the Year Right...

I get pretty tactical with these ideas and lead you to apply them in real time...

The result is a plan that ensures that...

You in 2023 will definitely be better than You today.

The decisions and behavior modifications that you make will...

Make you happier than you are now...

Wealthier than you are now....

And a whole lot more productive than you are now.

When it comes to managing my expectations...

The only gap I am concerned about is the one between my intention and my actions.

The gap between what I say I want to do and what I actually do...

Focus on how far you've come...

Not on how much further you have to go.

Tomorrow I'll share with you why I personally think the concept of "failing forward" is nothing but well meaning bad advice.

You're going to love it.

In a few day's I'll officially open the cart for Start The Year Right and send you a formal second invite with clear details.

Given that I'm using these funds for my back to school project...

There won't be any complimentary seats...

#sorry

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But I will do something I've never done...

If you do chose to invest your N50,000 (about $75) in this...

You'll not only get the replay of this year's STYR workshop...

(Just in case you can't make it live)

But also last year's workshop recordings as well. (Currently sells for N75,000)

That's it for today.

Till tomorrow

Get out of your own way.

CTM

PS: It's my birth month and yes I am shamelessly asking for gifts and surprises and possibly an island off the coast of Brazil...but I can also settle for an acre of land in Lagos or Abuja...I'll send you my list of preferred gifts to pick from if you ask for it. Birthday's 30th November 2022.