Do the small things every day that will aggregate over time to a critical mass and boom!

As someone with over 20 years, experience and expertise as a tutor, coach and business mentor Neil reflects on the reoccurring theme of being an overnight success.

He explores how and why we perceive individuals as having always been successful and provides some great practical tips on how you can create a critical mass that will make the difference from the little things you do consistently every day. Listen in and find out more.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Overnight success

• We tend to see how people are now and assume they are just that way when in reality everyone is constantly in transition and evolving year after year refining their approaches,  developing and tweaking ideas.
• You only see the carefully managed image that someone chooses to show. You don’t see the history or the time it took to arrive at the present.
• Nobody is an overnight success;

The little things

• It all takes time whatever you are involved in and there will be setbacks and disappointments along the way.
• Whether you are only just starting or planning to grow your business it takes time.
• If you put the work in and consistently focus on the day to day processes everyday things will move forward. Paying daily attention to the little things adds up over time. 

Goals

• The human mind doesn’t like vagueness it thrives on specifics and a short timeline can be setting you up to fail.
• Everyone overestimates what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in a decade.
• Having goals is a vital part of any business and thinking 10 to 15 years ahead is an effective time frame for your business vision -  what you can imagine and what you can conceive looking forwards.
• We don’t notice the tiny changes as they occur but we see them when they achieve critical mass
• That single first student has become a booked solid schedule, your income exceeds what most people earn, your life and business fuse into a constant stream of fun and you are making a positive impact on people’s lives.
• This is when the realisation that you’ve achieved can make you feel like an overnight success.
• When it happens to you, enjoy it you’ve earned it, paid for it and deserve it because you did the little unseen daily things and put the time and achieved your critical mass, so party on!

 

 

 

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘There are highly talented and skilled tutors who are scrapping around for clients because they have not set any goals’

‘Some of us will carefully plan our businesses but some wont’

‘They lurch from crisis to crisis in a perpetual state on emergency and stress but I know that paying daily attention to the little things adds up over time

 

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ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

 

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