The daily hustle and grind is the single most powerful determiner of your overall success.
At the core, it denotes how hard work, focused on your purpose, can lead to you achieving your legacy.
How does it come to life daily?
1. Find something to improve on
Find something to work hard at and to enhance further every day. Whether it's becoming a better writer (practice your writing), a better manager (pursue that MBA), proficient at dealing with foreign clients (a new language perhaps) or even soul improvement (learning to encourage and empower others) - finding that one thing you can practice every day will go along way in reaching your goals.
2. Make it personal
Design the daily goal as something that is self driven rather than being driven by any expectations that may be placed on you by others.
That way, you're simply beating your personal best, removing the stress of competing with others and finding peace in the process.
3. Make it realistic
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in our legacy and brand building journey is to overload ourselves and set unrealistic expectations.
This is both in the actionable aspects of our work and in the results we expect.
Sometimes all you can possibly get done is a blog post. Or an email introducing yourself to a potential business partner. The response could be one single view of that post or an unexplained silence from the person you reached out to.
It's easy then to get discouraged and unnerved, sometimes at the cost of consistency - with a few days of 'nothing' as you wallow in defeatism and bowls of icecream.
The key here is to put aside the feelings of disappointment, recalibrate your expectations and keep plodding, one step at a time.
I want to encourage you further on this by asking you to share your #DailyGrind story with us on social media - Facebook and Instagram - @thebrandninja.
In turn I'll make sure to encourage you onward to your goal ... with daily inspo and words of wisdom ...
Think on it. Do it!
