Don't Stress!

Don't Stress!

What?  Don't stress?  You're not sitting where I'm sitting!

I know this is very basic and it was something that came back to mind when I was speaking to my son about graduating High School.  I was asking him what his plan was to graduate and his response was "I'm too stressed to think about it!"

So I proceeded to tell/preach/lecture/go off/advise and all those prolific things to help my young sky walker!

How many credits do you need to graduate?

Divide that by weeks left of school.

How much needs to be done weekly?

How much needs to be done daily?

And work the plan daily!

GET A PLAN, WORK THE PLAN!

Stress ensues where there is no plan because there is no work till the plan is clear.  Make sense?  Once clarity is there the strategy how to get there, man power that is needed, resources required and so on.  It's then the work can begin and you can measure your progress and progress eliminates stress!

"Progress begets momentum!"  ~Scott Barnard

I was working with one of my clients and we were discussing his 5 year plan.  He wants the phone to be ringing and capture 120 calls a week with 12 service trucks.  (The Plan).  He currently has 2 trucks and capturing 30 calls.

In order for the phone to ring there has to be a strategy; advertising, call center, right personnel, training etc.  Once the phone starts ringing he will need to have the infra structure; men and trucks ready to handle the higher volume of calls.  There again is the strategy to get more people, buy trucks, train etc. (The Work).

Very simplistic but safe to say you eliminate a lot of stress by having a Plan that you can break down year, month and daily to Work on.  No plan, lots of stress!.

Get a plan, work the plan!