Last night our country made a decision to re-elect President Obama. Whether you think he is good or bad, at least a decision was made.
I am hoping it spurs more decisions: specifically Business Decisions.
There has been a lot of "follow up in 2 weeks" or "follow up in a month" over the last few months in anticipation for the election. I've even heard "Follow up after the Election". Today, I have a lot of follow up to do.
I've heard it said: "You can live with a yes, you can live with a no, but the maybe will kill you."
In times of major change, especially in an election year, we can get distracted by decisions, media, spin, even political conversations (a major networking NO-NO), and other things that are irrelevant to our business lives. We can even get distracted by the noise that "there's no business out there" or "whoever the President is will make a difference in our day-to-day business". I can tell you as a business development professional, that even though those macro economic factors have an impact, it is the day-to-day actions, the pivots, the new website, the new hire to your team, the new website or brochure, the new markets you open that will make all the difference in your long term success. I had friends who made 3x more money in the recession than they ever did before because of those decisions they made to take on the new market trends.
It is the decision that you make on a day-to-day basis that will determine your success. I'm sure there were times that our President made a decision to not show up, not prepare, or not be engaged and excited about what he was doing (we all watched the first debate after all), but ultimately, when he made those decisions to do so, he was able to convince a nation to re-elect him. We have the choice to take the President's example, make choices in our business that will propel us forward every day.
This is not a hard decision to make- it's go time.
