Beast Mode Monday: You Are Not Working a Week. You Are Building a Life.
Morning, Beasts.
If we haven't met yet, I'm Richard. I'm a coach and trainer with SalesBEAST, a New York guy at heart who traded the snow shovel for the Florida sun and never looked back. When I'm not coaching, I'm usually up to my elbows in a boat motor or out on the water with a rod in my hand. My job here is simple: take the fire you feel on Monday morning and turn it into a plan you can actually work.
You'll hear from me some Mondays, from Jayne on others, and every so often the two of us take the mic together. Jayne is the sharpest mind and the steadiest hand I know. She'll find the excuse you've been hiding behind before you even finish the sentence, and somehow you'll thank her for it. Her weeks also come with better food than mine. Fair warning.
A question before the first call
What do you want your life to look like three years from now?
Not what you hope it looks like. Not what you intend. What you are actively, deliberately, consistently building it to look like, through the choices you make in ordinary weeks that nobody bothers to mark on a calendar.
Hope without a blueprint is just a wish, my friend. And I've never once seen a wish frame a wall.
The week is the unit of construction
Here's the thing I want you to hear today. You are not working a week. You are building a life. The week is just the unit of construction.
Every Monday you decide to attack instead of coast is a brick. Every call you make when skipping it would be easier is a brick. Every relationship you show up for that won't pay off until next year is a brick. Every skill you practice in the hours nobody sees is a brick. Every time you choose the standard you committed to over the mood of the moment, that's a brick, too.
Stack enough of them and you've got a career. A reputation. A life the people you love can lean on, and a body of work you'll look back on someday with either pride or regret.
I've rebuilt enough motors to tell you there's no shortcut through the middle of the job. You don't skip steps and hope it runs. You do the steps, in order, with care, and then you turn the key. Life works the same way. There is no dramatic leap between where you are and what you're building. There's just the steady, deliberate laying of bricks, week after week, in the direction of something worth building.
Here's how we work it, step by step
Before the first call and the first email, take two minutes with one question: what is this week building toward?
Write the answer in one sentence. Not a list. One sentence you could say out loud.
Pick the one task this week that lays the biggest brick toward that sentence, and put it on the calendar first.
On Friday, look back and ask if the week matched the sentence. If it didn't, adjust Monday. No beating yourself up. Just adjust.
That's it. Answer the question, hold onto it, then work the week like you're building something that matters. Because you are.
And you can't build anything running on fumes. Jayne has a whole kitchen full of meals that come together in about five minutes, which takes the "no time to eat right" excuse completely off the table. Her Rainmaker Zoodle Soup is the only soup I've ever asked for seconds of. Don't tell her I said that. She'll never let me live it down.
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The life you want is made of weeks like this one. Make it a good brick.
That's Beast Mode.
Richard
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