It takes 21 days to form a habit. So they say. On average, with our busy lives, our busy schedules, most people can see their way to about six to seven days. Then, things begin to run short and, well that’s the story.
Not in 2017. Winning this year is important for me. It’s important for me because 2016 was, as they say in football, a rebuilding year. It was a year where I tried things out. I test-ran new information, I sat back and, publicly, remained relatively dormant. I had to. It was that required trial and error I keep telling everyone about. I relaunched and completely rebranded GoodKnocking Entertainment Group and GoodKnocking Radio, I signed myself as its first artist/employee, and I began the steps to establishing MRVL (my own brand). In 2017, it’s game on, though. But in order to have gotten to this point, there was so much that I had to bunker down and determine and, in hopes of inspiring the next person, I’ll go ahead and share the keys to knowing how Mistah Marvel can and will win. 1. Unapologetically Pursue Your Goals
I’ve told you the story of me being turned down for employment all because I had GoodKnocking Entertainment Group on my resume. For many (including myself at the time), it was supposed to be a way of exhibiting my leadership skills and my ability to work independently. Additionally, it was the true exhibit of my valuable skills, however, it also showed that I was distracted. And, honestly speaking, the employer had every right to feel that way. So, in 2016, I didn’t take being terminated from my job too hard because it opened up my schedule and my mind to bunker down and fight for these goals I had set out in 2011.
The Truth About Being Unrealistic: I had never given my dreams and goals a chance to breath fresh air, yet I was expecting them to take off. I never knew how successful GoodKnocking could be because I was never full-time doing GoodKnocking. Here I am. 2. Life Demands Scheduling. Your Life Deserves Structure
I refuse to believe my schedule is ever empty. It’s impossible. I strategize day after day to make things work out, for new things to develop, and to enjoy the fruits of my labor. From past experience, looking for employment is difficult because you spend most of your time living with uncertainty. You operate with uncertainty, but you always know you’re certainly exhausted from looking. The exhaustion is mental, but structuring a scheduled life can help (in more ways than you think). On the flipside, we shouldn’t wait until we’re unemployed, or exercising options to take this into heart.
Working full-time and having a side hustle, or a second stream of income is by no means easy, and I think a lot of people take the income for granted. Scheduling can be done a number of ways, but I specifically use the TimeTune app (available for Android and iOS) to create routines of productivity for myself. From eating times, to exercise times, to “Good Vibes/Positivity Break”, I have generated a workflow for my week to keep me in the constant groove for productivity and work. Your life needs it, and people around you (for me it’s my wife) deserve it. 3. Stop Giving Away Free Advice
(Sighs)…This is a tough one for al of us, but I promise you’re overthinking. Imagine you’re a DJ, and someone asks you to sit down with them about an event their thinking about and you agree. Rather than speaking about booking, deposits, or if you’re calendar is open, they ask you to give a run down of what songs you’d play at their event, then take notes and never book you. This is a harmful exchange we too often take part in without knowing.
I am very weary of people who want to “pick my brain”. My brain is not to be picked, my time is not to be wasted, and unfortunately, I cannot provide information for free. In these moments, we have to think about the opportunity cost is took you to gather the information. What resources did you use? How long did it take? How much did you sacrifice to gather this information? Well, then, providing this to people must come at a cost. Even in “free consultations” consider it an opportunity to let someone know they have a problem, not necessarily telling them what they should do. ? 4. Kill Your Very Small Bad Habits
Know thyself. We all know the habits we have that keep us unhealthy, unconcerned, and unproductive. Kill them! For me, it was spending hours checking notifications for social media. Opening, closing, switching, checking, and sifting through. All in all, I became too concerned with the unimportant. I made small changes, though. I unfollowed 500 people. I followed people who were similar to the level I am trying to be on, and lastly, I turned my notifications off. An app that helps me with this as well is QualityTime. It focuses on your digital diet, allowing you to cut yourself off from certain apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Guage what changes in your 21 days and move forward from there.
5. Reflection is the Key To Progression
True story: for many years during my “prime” in GoodKnocking (that is, during the phase of our radio show “GoodKnocking”, 2010-2013), I never listened to myself on air. Strangely enough, I just didn’t want to hear what I sounded like on the radio. I’d take in tidbits, and small clips, but strayed away from it entirely. When I changed that in 2013, my on-air presence changed drastically. I stopped cutting off co-hosts and guests, and completely did away with dead air. Most importantly I became much better at speaking, rather than reading off our scripts.
Reflection is the key to progression. Analysis of your progress as a brand, an employee, even an individual is so necessary. We cannot and should never move forward if we don’t know what’s working for us and against us. In fact, this is the single most important piece of this entire post. If you’re not measuring yourself against yourself, you’ll be chasing false idols and goals and ultimately failing. You want to lose 27lbs? Great. What were you doing when you last weighed 27lbs lighter? What are you doing now that is stopping you? What really effects our ability to lose weight? We have to be able to sit still, and look at our work with honest, unbiased, discomfort and say, “this is not how I imagine this” or “this isn’t what I really want” so that we can shed dead weight. With these keys in mind, the energy is budgeted, and preparations are made for a good year!
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