Lesson 6 – Your Target Bar
In Lesson #6, Simpleology clarifies the first step of the Scientific Formula For Success that they laid out in Lesson #5.
Simply put, the first step tells us to See Your Target.
This is a step in the thought process, in my opinion at least, that is often overlooked. I know in my life, I overlook it a lot.
I’m usually very, very busy with multiple different projects. I’m usually so busy that I don’t dedicate enough time with each project to make sure that each project is properly targeted.
I’ll give you an example.
I’m part owner of a bar with some of my best friends. A couple of years ago we bought a local pub and decided we’d buy it and make it into our neighborhood hangout place. This was after Stephen’s wife kicked us out of their basement, she said, and the rest of our wives agreed, that they didn’t feel comfortable with us hanging out down there all the time. So we bought a bar.
Now, admittedly, I don’t really care if the bar makes us oodles of money or not, but I’d like it to break even at least and to do that, a fair amount of work needs to be put into it. Usually the work that we do is done late, half-assed and thus is ineffective. The end result is that the bar barely breaks even and is a constant source of annoyance to us and our wives.
Now, there are a lot of factors that go into the success of a bar, but poor management is the most common reason most bars don’t succeed and ours is no different. I’d say that we’d be a lot more successful if we actually cared about the bar making money. Our target is not defined. Actually, in this case, we don’t even have a target identified at all. I’m sure if we ever decide to make ourselves a target, even one as simple as a profit of $100 a week, we would be able to hit it.
That’s the thing with targets, once they are clearly defined, they are much more attainable. The world is weird like that.
Till next time…