Hello,
I had the TV on while surfing CTPX and watched an interview on CNN with Mikaela Shiffrin - announced as the all-time best alpine women's skier after winning her 7th Alpine world championship gold. I especially liked the part where she mentioned that breaking a long-standing record was not in her sights nor did it ever dawn on her that she could or would overtake the record. Her focus in competition was on quality and determined performance and it was the love of the journey not the destination. The finish line she intimated (especially for downhill skiers) is over in a nanosecond. All the congratulations in the world to you Mikaela!
Everyone has routines. What is important is that routines are preceded by motivation. Motivation is preceded by goals. Motivation is the trigger that you pull to achieve your successes. It doesn't matter if it is getting up and being punctual for a 9-5, being timely with the dollar cost averaging of your variable assets or surfing TEs and marketing to gain hits to your webpage. Everybody's success, in one way or another, is tied to motivation.
So, daily, I check my motivation. I have my own Do routines. I remind myself that failures (disregarding the added weight of being perceived small or large) are inevitable and will work against my motivation. I set my mind up to ignore them using them only for analysis and learning. Successes - new referral emails, commission announcements, winning some hourly giveaway CTP from Xploring CTPX - well, that just makes everything worthwhile and makes the next day's DO list just a motivational pep talk away. You never know when all those efforts are going to pay off in a big way.
Hope you all are having a great day. Tomorrow's going to be another great day.
JohnP