Then secondly I migrated my whole office from PC to Mac in December 2010 - I even have an iPad now.
Those who have followed my journey will notice I always take a quantum leap when I do things!
As usual I was overly optimistic about how hard this would be, and didn't fully factor in how long it would take. Infusionsoft was a beast of a thing to get set up, and I purchased just before they introduced all their cool new wizards. But now it's rolling I sit here daily and marvel at some of the things it does. I am really excited what it can do and I look forward to really being of much greater service to my customers going forward with all this awesome technology.
A strange thing occurred though as the technology bedded down.
As I started to get used to the new Macs (did I mention I have an iPad now) it has forced everything to a higher standard.
Same with Infusionsoft.
These companies can afford to employ some of the greatest innovative minds on the planet. So you either get into their mindsets and start to think like they do, or you have to return back to your old systems. I'm not a go back kind of gal!
There is a golden rule in the personal development industry that says, hang out with the people you want to be like, and a bit of them will automatically rub off on you ....... if you let it!
Another way of saying that is - you are the sum of the top 5 people you hang out with or even more simply - you are who you hang out with.
Or even more crudely from the Daggermouth song:
“You can’t fly with eagles when you keep walking with turkeys”
I have found this to be absolutely true, but until now, I hadn't fully realised that technology could have the same effect.
But its not just technology, it relates to everything.
When I've had clunky cars - I've been clunky myself. When the house is a mess - usually I have too much going on and no time to tidy up and the mess starts to drain me.
Your business is the same, if you aren't giving it the time, energy and effort it deserves, and implementing EVERYTHING I tell you, then you get naff results.
The only way to change a situation is to change something.
In the Attraction Program, one of the principles is to Tolerate Nothing. This involves going through and looking at every single thing that isn't working for you, from the button that is missing on your blouse, to really big things like relationships that aren't working for you.
Initially it seems a little bit negative to make a list of negatives!
But of course you become more attrACTIVE when you get more active and start changing or fixing the things on the list. So the idea is to switch the list to positives by systematically removing the negatives.
When I turn on "Big Mac" (with a 27 inch screen - bigger than my tv!) every morning, I save the TWENTY minutes it used to take for my PC to fire up. Big Mac is ready to go in under 30 SECONDS - I still marvel at that!
Imagine that: 365 days x 20 minutes = 7,300 minutes each year saved.
That's a whopping FIVE full days a year I DON'T sit watching a PC boot up. And no I didn't sit and watch it all the time, I would turn it on and go put the kettle on. That lead to multi-tasking and often I got drawn off to do other "stuff".
The difference is now, when I show up in the office - I am focused and working immediately. I find also I am thinking more clearly, planning more and getting more things done with ease, simply because my equipment is good to go when I am.
I am writing this on my iPad (did i mention i have one?) in bed, listening to the wind play through my trees and watching the sun send dabbled light into my room and enjoying the blue skies. Does that energy inspire and transmute to me - I'm reckoning it does.
I had been tolerating the waste of time and need to always be plugged into mains power for over a year as my PC died an agonising death. That toleration was going on everyday as it crashed and burned it's way through the work load.
No wonder I was getting worn out!
I had been tolerating this for a very long time and it had been silently draining my energy.
Maybe do an audit of the things you have been tolerating and start cleaning them up as time and your budget allows.
Just about as attractive as my new iPad I reckon ........ did I mention have one :)
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