How to Recover From a Bad Week Without Starting Over
About this episode
Paul Mort discusses how to recover from setbacks without starting over, emphasizing the importance of consistency and the minimum effective dose.
If you set goals, smash them for a few days (or two weeks)… and then they die by Valentine's Day, this is for you. Most business owners think they've got a goal problem. I don't. I think you've got a stopping problem, you keep starting… then stopping… then starting again. In this episode, I break down why you quit right before the payoff, and the "cheat code" I use so I never miss more than once. What I cover January Man: two weeks of beast mode, one slip, then "I'll restart Monday" The Lag Effect (from The 12 Week Year): your results today are an artefact of previous behaviour Why silence, crickets, no movement, no sales, isn't failure, it's the price of admission The trap of all-or-nothing (sounds tough, really means you quit when it's inconvenient) Minimum Effective Dose: the smallest thing that still counts, your floor, not your ceiling Never miss twice: one miss is human, two misses is a pattern, three misses is a quit Next Action: stop carrying the last mistake and "play the next ball" (I tell a story about Sunderland/Newcastle and Luke O'Nien's "NA" rule) HOMEWORK: Pick ONE thing you keep starting and stopping (posting, emails, sales calls, training, journaling, DMs)…
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Host: Paul Mort
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Books & works: The 12 Week Year
Places: Sunderland, Newcastle
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