Your Superbowl

Imagine this: You're the kicker for a football team that has made it to the Superbowl- and it's this week. You have just three kicks that will determine success or failure, victory or defeat, for the entire game, the entire season, your entire career.

At this point, almost everything else you did in life will be insignificant, non-memorable and perhaps even termed "distractions" except for those three kicks. Those three kicks will make or break your career.

The question is: How important would it be for you to be properly prepared? Prepared physically, prepared mentally (i.e., researching the opposing team's strategy) and prepared psychologically? 

If you said "It would be paramount," you are correct.

And that, my friends, is how you need to view your week.

Does this scenario sound familiar? You wake up Monday morning and immediately get sucked into the vortex of emails, phone calls, and office drop ins, office fires, and then rush off to important presentations, client meetings, prospecting appointments or even key phone calls you need to make. Did you take a minute to sift out what really needed your attention?

The truth is, most people never stop to identify which engagements are the most important all week so that they can set aside the time to properly get ready for them. Instead, they wind up at their most critical engagements, unprepared and harried, just to deliver less than their optimal performance. Because of this, their results are mediocre at the end of the week, week after week, until there just isn't much to show for the year.

They miss the big opportunity to advance on their goals in the few moments of that meeting, call or presentation that matter.

Your task: Decide what your three most important meetings, appointments or engagements are of the coming week. What are your three Superbowl winning kicks each week? Isolate them. They are the three most important meetings, calls or engagements where the quality of your performance will significantly determine the success- or mediocrity- of your week's outcome. 


And then prepare, prepare and prepare.
. . .

Go conquer. :)