Separation Season 🚀

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Tis the season…

Can you believe we’re only a few days away from Christmas? 🎅

Then before you know it, it’ll be 2024. 🥳

Some of the most successful people look at this time of year as closing out…

SEPARATION SEASON! 

This is the time of year, when the winners of 2024 laid the foundation for separating themselves from the rest of the pack.

The ones that aren’t just here to play the game, but here to win the game.

Separating yourself from the Good to the GREAT.

From the Great to the UNSTOPPABLE.

To become RELENTLESS.

Tim S. Grover was the athletic trainer for all worldly NBA hall of famers, such as Michael Jordan, Dwayne Wade, Charles Barkley, the late Kobe Bryant 🙏, and many more athletes.

But he was so much more than that with the mindset work he did with his guys.

He knows what preparation and putting in the work is all about to achieve greatness.

He wrote a book called, Relentless, which opened my eyes up to what it took for the greats to be unstoppable.

To be in their own class.

Their Separation Season was typically during the off-season.

This is where they took the time to recover, but also to continue putting in the work, both physically and mentally.

It was a good mix of planning, preparing, and working towards their desired outcomes.

If you have not read this book, I highly encourage you do.

I am re-reading it for the second time right now.

I have it listed as one of my Top Ten Mindset Recs, which you can find 👉 HERE

There’s a little over a week left in 2023.

Separation Season requires you to commit to closing the next ten days strong to prepare yourself for becoming an absolute BEAST in 2024.

Don’t wait until January to start.

Everyone else will be waiting until then.

Continue the work.

Get a head start.

Double down.

Prepare.

Leverage the time you have now to set yourself up for SUCCESS. 🤩

Here’s some ideas based on various situations you may find yourself in… All of which I have been or are currently in throughout my life.

If you’re in sales…

• Make 10 more calls before 2023 is over to keep your pipeline flowing.

• Scrub a new prospecting list to prepare for next year’s multi-touch campaigns.

• Cultivate your referral partner relationships by sending them a thank you gift, and follow up now to get on the calendar in the new year.

If you’re an entrepreneur…

• Schedule a 2024 strategic planning session with your leadership team.

• Plan out creative new benefits for your current and future team members.

• Close out the year focused on new Sales and Partnerships.

• Identify new markets, products, vendors, and ideas that will streamline and scale your business.

With your family…

• Openly discuss your individual goals, then collectively identify your family goals.

• Plan your adventures together.

• Schedule date nights with your significant other as a non-negotiable.

• If you have kids, involve them.

  • Schedule 1:1 time at least monthly. Put it on the calendar.

PERSONAL HEALTH needs to always be a priority.

Don’t wait…

Start now…

• Go the gym.

• Begin your diet plan.

• Meditate.

This is Separation Season, baby!

No need to wait for January on this stuff. 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️

Begin the compounding effect now. 📈

A very good doctor friend of mine was talking about New Year’s resolutions the other day and he said, if nothing else…

…put a focus on becoming a physically healthier version of yourself.

This will bring more mindfulness and clarity into your life, along with happiness and opportunity that you didn’t think was possible.

I couldn’t agree with him more.

This time last year, I was the UN-healthiest I had ever been. 😔

I put a focus on my health by cutting down on the booze, eating better foods, incorporated strength training… and in 2023 I started to feel (and look) like an athlete again.

From within the first few weeks of implementing this new health focused identity, I never felt more clear, motivated, and energetic about the vision for what I wanted the rest of my life to look like.

It became addicting… It’s become my IDENTITY.

Now I’m training for my fifth half marathon on January 14th. 🏃‍♂️

And yes, signing up for a mid-January race was a tactic to keep myself aligned with my routine throughout the Holidays and Separation Season! 😉

Need proof that I’m walking the walk??!!

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If you’re not familiar with the Be a Duck 🦆 mentality, reference FLIGHT #005 👉 HERE

Also, as you continue to define success for yourself…

Look at the negative thoughts closely and think to yourself… Will I let this be an issue tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year?

If the answer is no, then throw those NEGATIVE-NOGGIN-NELLIES out like the trash on a Tuesday. 🚮

Switch your foundational perspective from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

Put in the work to be a better version of yourself physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Now is the time to start thinking about how you can separate your future self from your current self.

This can mean many things and just like success, is your own perception of it.

Give yourself grace, but remember this is not a time to sit back and hope for the best.

Everything is in your control. It’s up to you to take the ACTION. 💥

The work, the plans, the mental commitments you go through now during these last 10 days of the year, will bring you closer to what you want, FASTER.

It’s a compounding effect.

And the work you put in today doesn’t have to be an all out, massive undertaking.

Simply be a little bit better today than you were yesterday, every single day.

Taking days off from progress during this time of year sets you back.

You lose those compounding gains.

Separation Season is for those that want require their VISION to remain in focus.

Start the new year exponentially stronger by not letting your routine slide at end of this year.

Keep the momentum going and continue working efficiently to become the best version of yourself.

This is the time when you step on the gas, while others aren’t even in the car.

The OLD you is who you learn from.

The NEW you is where the confidence comes from.

You need both and you can’t have either if you’re not experiencing GROWTH.

Again, you have to start where you are, no matter where you are.

This is what having a GROWTH MINDSET is all about.

Separating yourself from your current state to your future state in an upward, and to the right, trajectory. 📈

This is what helps you continue down the path to achieve your perception of SUCCESS and HAPPINESS.

This is the MINDSET SHIFT. 🤯

Until our next FLIGHT, check out our latest episode of the SuccessFlow Podcast with my AMAZING sister, Shannon Harris.

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Episode 29: Fusing Your Internal and External Environment with Shannon Harris

Remember, Opportunity is Everywhere!!

Cheers! Steven

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