10k Challenge
It's time to rise to the challenge. The 10k Sprint provides a framework for focus.
Infinite possibilities collapse at the point of decision.
Decide on a prime objective. Set aside everything else.
Rise to the occasion. What's the occasion? Meet the deadline. When's the deadline? 10 days from today.
Deadlines drive action. To meet $10k in 10 days, there are many mini deadlines that lead up to it.
The next sprint will be 11 days. Then 12 days. Then 13 days... and so on. It's a powerful framework. Eventually, a 90 day sprint would produce a 90k backlog and set you up with enough business for the entire year! Imagine being able to focus 100% on the client without having to burn time and energy on marketing.
If you truly do the work, the results will come. It's very conceivable that you could work 120 days/year when the 10 sprints are powerful enough!
Until you have the RIGs generating 10k, you will be required to perform services. Each month, your primary objective is to increase the % of RIGs in your 10k.
By 5/5/2020, you will have 100% of your 10k derived from RIGs. Cool Calculator that includes weeks, days, hours, and minutes. It's actually 25k hours from today.
Days remaining till 10k Sprint ends
Trackers
Some example 'trackers' to keep you on task
Punchlists
AutoFocus on Checkvist
Q. What's important?
Resources
100 Pomodoros/week
Each day, you get 10 Pomodoros. How you use your time determines
Check offs occur as the day progress:
Option 1: Google Sheet - more detail
Option 2: Table in Pubwriter (below)
| 8/17 | 8/18 | 8/18 | 8/19 | 8/20 | 8/21 | 8/22 | 8/23 | 8/24 | 8/25 |
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| 100 | 90 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 |
| 99 | 89 | 79 | 69 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 29 | 19 | 9 |
| 98 | 88 | 78 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 38 | 28 | 18 | 8 |
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Consider that every actionable thought falls into one of the following:
- NOW: It's where my attention is.
- NEXT: It's next in line in my queue.
- LATER: It's a scheduled event
- LIKELY (>50%): It's something I need to schedule time for. AKA Someday Maybe tasks.
- UNLIKELY (<50%): I might be intersted, but I'm not willing to commit to it.
- NO COMMIT: It's not something I am able to do right now.
Affirmations
I am heading into my 2nd 10 day sprint with great confidence because I achieved my 10 day goals previously.
Reflecting on what worked well, and what could be improved.
First, the countdown clock helped.
Second, the Pomodoro and pre-allocating 'prime time' (8am-11am) to my most important opportunities.
Second, the opportunities page @InSightly helped me see that while I have many clients, I have a more manageable list of opportunities related to those clients. Instead of focusing on specific clients, I am focusing on opportunities which are really solutions. This upcoming week, I want to create a PubWriter page for each solution (aka opportunity) along with a buy button and form for client to provide what we need. This is a vital step towards productizing my services.
Tracking projects and work orders in AuthorDock
At a glance:
There may be a creative way to use the RSS Feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mypunchlist
But I think a daily release notes page for my team would be helpful. That Feedburner page is my daily 'Release Notes' if you think about it. Imagine if EVERYTHING I did was posted to AuthorDock. It would automatically update that page!!! Strive for this.
Creating room for improvement
Note where you fell two steps back:
When you measure what matters, what you measure matters more.
I am going to see how many RFQs I can get in/out this week... to focus on new RFQs!!
What I said NO to
This is a critical success to celebrate... saying no to the activities and people who are not serving me
I absolutely need to line up some new speaking opportunities. January is likely a good month do it... otherwise, I will be scrambling later this year.
Define your 10 Day Sprint Goals
- $5k in backlog billings (prior clients)
- $100 in RIG sales (new tracker)
- Move ahead on Amazon Partner Certification (define next steps, if any)
- Check-in with 10 prior clients - see 13 week A-to-Z
- Introduce AuthorDock to a few select small publishers
New Habits:
- After I set for 30 minutes (a pomodoro), I will stand up (I am using my time timer which has a repeating 30 minute alert)
- After I get a client request, I will log it into AD (existing client) or Insightly (new client) (note this also addresses my inbox issue of leaving every message in my inbox!)
- After I wrap up for the workday, I will spend 5 minutes to clean up my office and prepare my 100day notebook for tomorrow (this addresses a long-standing issue I've had of not being organized and losing focus)
Days remaining till 12/31/16:
Resources and Tools:
- LeBlancs strategy
- Get up after 30 minutes of setting (time timer)
Progress report:
New Health Habit: * 1 Green drink (3-5 services of veggies/fruit)/day (meal replacement)
Mindfulness
- 100 Day calendar
- 10 day sprint
- Write in the mindfulness book (100 pages)