Be Vigilant About Correcting Mistakes

Written by Dave Navarro on February 9, 2006

Mediocrity is the habit of shrugging your shoulders at your mistakes. If you want to spin your wheels, by all means, don’t focus on fixing the problems in your time management skills. Just “keep trying to do your best.”

But hell, if you’re reading this, that ain’t you anyway. But it’s a real easy point to miss. Life is busy, and optimization is something that usually takes the backseat. But you can’t let that happen if you want to free up massive amounts of time and get better at everything you do in your life and your business.

So consider this - at the end of the day, take 15 minutes to look back at how you spent your day. Consider the mistakes you made that cost you time, cost you focus, cost you results. If you’re human, you’ll likely have more than one. Write ‘em all down.

Then pick one - just one - and decide for yourself that you are not going to let that mistake happen again. Really commit to making a quick & easy plan to eliminate whatever it is that mistake is … or at least to put a hell of a dent in it. It may take you a while, but if you commit to focusing on fixing that one issue and hammer at it every day, you’ll knock it out for life. And that’s a huge payoff.

And that list? Once you’ve overcome that issue, grab another one. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Remember, if you don’t review, you can’t record & measure your issues. And what you don’t measure you can’t manage. So make it a daily practice to scrub out your mistakes, rather than settling for repeating them. You’ll thank yourself for it.

All the best -

Dave Navarro