The Ultimate Method
How many books are out there promising you can learn the ultimate method to increase your sales or maximise profits? Or with the ultimate marketing plan? When you’re searching for a solution to whatever you’re dealing with at the moment, you just need to look it up on the internet and there you are. Ultimate or definitive guides will appear in front of you promising results if you get their book or course. Then you pick up one of them, the one with the best reviews and at an affordable price. You go through it and time later, it turned out to be a waste of time and money. What happened here?
The problem is not what you bought
Regardless whether the cover uses “ultimate”, “definitive”, another synonym, or simply they just humbly indicate “How to do this or that”, some of these books or courses contain really useful information and strategies to help you deal with an existing issue you’re facing, while others aren’t simply enough or talk about something else.
Recently, for example, I read the Bullet Journal Method book. It has many interesting ideas and strategies which I implemented.
If you didn’t get the magic word, I’ll repeat it again.
Implement.
However, there is another question that you should ask yourself when going through the thousands of methods and strategies you can find out there.
Is this going to help me?
Most of the strategies and tools are meant to help you deal with a certain problem or issue. Accounting is an example. It can help us control our finances, our wealth and potential risks that our business may be facing. Then, you’ll hear tons of advice how to build a budget, how to make a business plan, and so on. Probably you’ll be thinking “this is useless”. I agree. Not everyone wants to monitor their finances regularly. It can be boring. Not for me, of course, this is why I work in finance.
However, we both know that if you want to keep a business alive you need to know how much money is coming in, from where, and out and where to. Sorry, it’s part of the job. Assuming you can´t afford somebody who can do this for you. What can you do in this situation?
Develop your own methods
Organisations are usually quite complex so we’ll focus on this at individual level. Each brain has a different way of working and processing information, and stay motivated. For example, let’s assume you can to work on your focus at work. One book I read about it is Hyperfocus, by Chris Bailey. In my opinion, it’s a wonderful book which I recommend to anyone who wants to improve their focus.
However, if you ask me how it applied to me I won’t tell you I’ve applied every single technique the book describes. The same with the Bullet Journal Method, by Ryder Carroll. I find the method quite useful and interesting, but I haven’t applied all of the advice that was provided in the book. What’s more, I’ve already developed some of my own strategies to it.
What’s the point then?
The point here is that when you want to develop a certain skill or learn a certain methodology, you should always try to find a way that works for you. This is very important. Some people relax at home in social environments while others, chilling at home with a book in their hands. Other people, with a balance of the last two.
People who like socialising usually find strange people who love sitting at home reading, and vice versa. What is the right approach then? Psychologists will tell you that socialising is good for the brain (which is true), while others will tell you that quite environments can also help you rest.
In the end, you have to listen to yourself and have the lifestyle that best works for you. The main reason is that only like this you can benefit from it. It’s very demotivating to be doing something in a way you don’t like. So at least, if you have to, try to find a way that works for you.
And basically, this is what I do here. There are many strategies to help you with your business and I can tell you some of them, but in the end, you’ll only use those who can actually help you and that is the message you should get.
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