Navigate November like a Champion!
I love this poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth:
“November comes, and November goes,
With the last red berries and the first white snows.
With night coming early and dawn coming late,
and ice in the bucket and frost by the gate.
The fires burn and the kettles sing,
and earth sinks to rest until next spring.”
Well, my friend, the earth can sink to rest until next spring – but if you are committed to closing your year with record volume and achievement, if you want to increase what you’ve worked so hard to create, you cannot afford to “rest until next spring”.
With the Thanksgiving holiday positioned near month’s end, it makes perfect sense to jumpstart November by taking immediate action now.
If you are ready and willing to play full out, you can navigate November like a Champion.
November Action Guide
Your November Action Guide offers three key action steps to jumpstart your month and drive consistent activity and results.
Through these exercises, you’ll be able to work into the holiday season and joyfully grow your business. It’s time to master your calendar and effectively navigate November on your terms.
Audio of the Month
Listen to your November ZannPlan audio training to create clarity around best practices for the month. Learn how to work into the holiday season and joyfully grow your business. It’s time to navigate November on your terms.
Print out the action guide before you listen to the audio below, so you can follow along with the transcript and take notes. This will improve your retention and your ability to put what you learn into immediate action.
“Most people settle for average. It’s a choice. Choose to be a Champion.”
— Leslie Zann.
Social Media Strategy
Boost, Baby, Boost
Use the boost feature on Facebook! This proven growth strategy can be a cost-effective way to expand your reach. For just $20 a week, depending on the size of your total audience, you can expect to expose your post to several hundred to a few thousand extra people per day.
The intention for boosting is to reach a larger audience. To entice people to engage with you, give your audience something they need. For example, you can boost blog posts, video, or free downloadable worksheets. Running an ad for video views is an especially cost-effective way to boost your information for as little as a penny a view.
If you are looking to add people to your mailing list, you can offer a free worksheet or information packet. In the post, include a link to an opt-in page where they provide name and email in exchange for your content. Now they are part of your community, and will receive emails, product specials and community-specific communications.
November Challenge: Be creative and take action. Write a post or record a video. Offer free information to positively impact your audience or showcase your expertise. Start boosting!
Social Media Strategy by Molly Rose – MollyRoseMedia.com
Time Management Tip
Rehire Yourself Every Day
One of the reasons certain people do not reach the level of success they desire in our profession is a lack of accountability. If you’re accustomed to someone else holding you accountable for your performance, as most Direct Sellers are, you may feel a bit lost without that support. Lost enough perhaps to avoid taking action.
Your Sponsor is not your boss and therefore cannot make you do anything. And since you are not an employee, no one can insist you take action while holding dire consequences over your head if you don’t.
So where do you find the accountability you need to achieve? It must come from within. You must provide it to yourself with desire, discipline and continuous activity. And yes, this is easier said than done. But like everything, it becomes easier to do with steady practice.
Since most Consultants work their business in part-time hours, how do you ignite the desire, discipline and activity to take action? One proven method is to rehire yourself every day.
Here’s the premise: Pretend there are two of you and that one is the boss and the other is the employee. With your boss hat on, evaluate the activity and productivity of your employee self over the past seven days, two weeks, or month. Be compassionate, yet honest, as you evaluate your actions, decisions, and results.
With your boss hat still on, decide whether or not your employee self deserves a raise, a warning letter, or even a pink slip. In other words, as the boss, would you give yourself a promotion; or would you fire yourself?
If you are willing to be honest with yourself, this exercise can be effective in creating clarity on whether or not you are truly in action – or if you’re suffering from a lethal case of denial.
You may wonder if your boss self is experienced enough, knows enough to evaluate your employee self accurately and fairly. Your boss self only needs to evaluate one thing: Whether or not you are talking to enough new people.
Years ago, I interviewed a Leader who had recently promoted to the top of her pay plan. When I asked her what caused the rapid increase in her pace and productivity, she replied, “Leslie, I was convinced I was talking to enough people – until I actually started talking to enough people.”
There’s no silver bullet in our profession. But if there were, that would be it!
Start to track the number of new people you talk to every week. This one activity will give your boss self the results for a fair and effective evaluation.
Have the courage to rehire yourself every day by putting your boss hat on and evaluating your actions. If your boss self is happy with your prospecting efforts, soon your “job promotions” will be promotions in title, and “salary raises” will come in the form of an ever-increasing monthly check.
Motivational Message
Book Club
By definition, our profession is social and collaborative. Consider bringing these aspects to life in a new way. Why not promote and duplicate the power of a Personal Development practice by creating a virtual Book Club with your downline team?
You don’t have to meet in person. And you don’t have to invest a lot of time to make this a lot of fun and highly effective.
If you like the idea, here are five ways to create your own Book Club:
- Choose a book (or audio book) from Leslie’s Library.
- Invite your team to join the club and read the book. You can set up a Facebook page specifically for your book club.
- Schedule and post a reasonable deadline to finish reading the book.
- Schedule a conference call for everyone to participate in a discussion. Prior to the call, everyone can post their top three takeaways from the book and how they intend to utilize these lessons to enhance their life, their business and/or their leadership style.
- Select the next book. Rinse. Repeat.
By bringing your team together around a common theme, you can inspire everyone to dream bigger, take action, and move to the top of their pay plan.
Start today to develop the mindset and the skill set to create Outrageous Achievement.
As you gain more clarity in each season, you’ll set money-making priorities, take more consistent action, and meet and exceed your goals, not only this year, but for years to come.
Navigate November on your terms. Grow your business and enjoy the holiday season at the same time.
In celebration, I’d like to close with a quote from one of my favorite authors:
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
Here’s wishing you and yours a joyous Thanksgiving Holiday!
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