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“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” – Gen. George Patton

Commentary: As we’ve written before, planning can go on forever until everyone thinks it’s perfect. However, many times a good plan is good enough and the quicker you start working on it the faster things will get done.

“Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.”   – Albert Einstein

Commentary: Einstein is right. Is there something that you want to become a genius/expert at? If you dedicate just a bit of time everyday to the study of that topic you can be amongst the greatest in the world at that subject.

Which one topic or subject, if you could become an expert at, would make the greatest difference in your life and/or business?

“The distance between you and your dreams is often the length of a single idea.”  – Vic Conant

Commentary: Sometimes all it takes is a new idea or thought to make you look at the world differently. One business idea (intelligently acted upon) can change your life. In business, you only need to be successful once and you’re set for life. Always be on the lookout for the idea that could change your life.

“We don’t want to be rich, we just want to be richer that other people” – John Stuart Mill

Commentary: Small business owners tend to focus on money when we should be focussing on lifestyle. Acquiring more and more money is an endless game that never brings satisfaction. The best thing to strive for are the lifestyle of wealth: time-off, family time, not worrying about money, vacations, etc. When you focus on lifestyle, you’ll find that it takes much less money and requires you to focus on making your business run without you rather than requiring your constant attention in the pursuit of more money.

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” – Peter Drucker

Commentary: Sometimes the planning process goes on forever. Some people are obsessed with planning to a point where actual work never gets started. It is important that planning is effective, but as Peter Drucker states, it is imperative to get to work!