How Do You Keep Calm and Not Get Too Excited When You Accomplish Something?

[Vadim26]

Anyone else experienced this?

Your business thrives.. and after a while, you start to experience small success.
Rather - a series of small successes/milestones.

A first sale.
A first customer.
A first $100 / day, $200 etc

YES! LIFE HAS FINALLY STARTED!

Then you start planning for the future... what color of Lambo will I get, where will I travel, etc...

The problem is for me is that - after achieving a small victory, I get mentally high and start daydreaming.
That leads to me wasting time and not getting much done until euphoria wears off. I tend to lose focus.

 

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[BizyDad]

I know this feeling well. I am wired this way.

I don't. (Keep calm).

But I feel it is no longer a problem. I always celebrate firsts. Always.

For me, a slow cycle of remembering the time wasting after the last "first" leads to me day dreaming less.

I still day dream. I view as an essential and fun part of life and I wouldn't want to have a life where I never day dream.

But over the years, I've learned to allow it only in it's proper time and place. So for me, after a first, I take one to five minutes of daydreaming, and I move on. I can always do more day dreaming later (and I will) but it is now easy to remind myself that I've got stuff to get done so my day dreams become reality.

The good news is this "condition" is treatable.

The bad news is, for me, it took about 5ish from the time I realized it was a problem that needed to be fixed, to get to the point where I would day dream less and not feel like I was depriving myself or feeling guilty or resenting the guilty feeling. All those negative feelings often had me give up on the "fix" and go back to relentless daydreaming because it makes me happy. The stopping and starting is why it took so long....

Where I'm at now, that euphoria doesn't actually wear off, I just channel it into being productive and grinning.

Hope that helps.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Nothing wrong with celebrating. Celebrate!

Treat it like pro athletes do ... celebrate the win the day of, maybe the day after. Then get back to work and focus on the next step.

 

[Ismail941]

Damn - You spoke my language man.
This is what happened to me a couple of years ago.
Reminds me of this English idiom: "Sitting on Laurels"

 

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[WJK]

Anyone else experienced this?

Your business thrives.. and after a while, you start to experience small success.
Rather - a series of small successes/milestones.

A first sale.
A first customer.
A first $100 / day, $200 etc

YES! LIFE HAS FINALLY STARTED!

Then you start planning for the future... what color of Lambo will I get, where will I travel, etc...

The problem is for me is that - after achieving a small victory, I get mentally high and start daydreaming.
That leads to me wasting time and not getting much done until euphoria wears off. I tend to lose focus.

I get some of my best ideas while I daydream. Just limit the amount of time you spend on it.

 

[woken]

YES! LIFE HAS FINALLY STARTED!

Celebrate after every win. If not, what’s the point?


Then come back here and read the gold / INSIDERS threads about 7/8 figure exits. It will motivate you and keep you grounded.
This forum is the next best thing to having a group of friends that do better than you.

 

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