What Kind Of Work Week Will You Have?

Well, today is Sunday and a new work week begins in just a few hours. What kind of week have you decided it will be for you and your business?

But, Don (you say)… How can I know what kind of work week I’ll have if it hasn’t even begun?

I say the best time to decide what kind of work week you’ll have is before the week starts.

You can choose right now if you’re going to have a positive week or a negative week.
You can decide between being organized and keeping your cool if/when things go wrong, or being stressed out and lashing out emotionally.

If you think about the coming week and the projects you know you’ll be managing and the people you know that you’ll encounter, it’s pretty easy to extrapolate on the situations you are likely to experience.

Once you have a working hypothesis of the likely scenarios you’ll encounter, you won’t be surprised by them (you might even be more surprised if they don’t occur).

When you contemplate the ups and downs of the pending work week, you can also plan for logical and considered responses instead of giving way to emotional reactions. If you’re not surprised by a situation, you’ll be better prepared to deal with it.

More importantly, you may even be able to preempt a bad situation by anticipating the event and taking action to prevent it from happening it all. There is a benefit to being a proactive and prepared pessimist. By assuming something will probably go wrong, you can be alert for those possible cues and ready to head them off.

Decide right now to have a great work week, and chances are that’s exactly what you’ll have — but if you decide it’s going to be a lousy work week, you’ll have one of those instead.

You get to choose.