Week
36

Stay Focused on Your
Core Genius

AFFIRMATIONS

for

Meditation and Reflection

I am confidently delegating things that get in the way of me staying focused on my core genius.

I am enjoying more free time and I am more productive when I delegate minor tasks to others.

I am turning over complete responsibility on less productive tasks so I can work on the things that make me happy and that I’m good at.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

—MALCOLM S. FORBES
Publisher of Forbes magazine

Do you know what your core genius is? It’s the one thing that you love to do and do so well, that you hardly feel like charging people for it. It’s effortless and fun—and could be your life’s work if you could find a way to make it your livelihood. Successful people recognize the value of their core genius and do everything they can to spend all of their time doing it—because that’s where the financial rewards and the joy are.

A lot of people (probably most) go through life doing everything. They spend their time on menial things that they don’t enjoy doing and that provide no financial reward (or any reward, for that matter). Their time is consumed with tasks they’re bad at and that could be done better, faster, and more economically by someone else. Their core genius gets pushed to the margins while they spend hours doing less important and fulfilling tasks.

When you concentrate on doing what you love to do, not only will you be more productive, you will find that life is much more enjoyable, too.

I am confidently delegating things that get in the way of me staying focused on my core genius.

L
et’s get to the root of why most people haven’t arranged their lives to focus 100% on their core genius. Why don’t people delegate tasks?

• They’re afraid to give up control, even of tasks they hate doing: While someone else won’t do it exactly like you would, there are many ways to accomplish something. Different isn’t wrong, it could even be better.
• They’re reluctant to spend the money for help: Investing your time where you produce the greatest results, like increased income, likely means spending a smaller amount of money with people who can free up your time.
• They don’t want to let go. Many people are control freaks and hoarders of everything. Let the little things go; they don’t contribute to your overall success and happiness.
• They’ve made a habit of doing it: You want to create good habits to replace your poor habits, remember? Doing something out of routine is unproductive and can become a pretty significant obstacle to reaching your goals. Those are destructive habits and it’s time to quit.

I am enjoying more free time and I am more productive when I delegate minor tasks to others.

Let’s say you’ve written your first book and you’re now eager to begin adding other activities to your authoring career: speaking engagements, writing a newspaper column, doing coaching, and developing a training program for corporations. You need to cold-call event planners, find coaching clients, write and film training modules for corporations, and so on—but on top of all that, you’re still running a small business and have a husband and two small children who need your attention. So, instead of spending your time booking speeches and writing corporate materials, you’re lucky to get anything done. But you could be closing two or three speeches a week if you focused your time and attention on what you’re best at and what you love to do the most. Looking at the big picture, wouldn’t it be worth hiring a part-time mother’s helper or additional person at your business—or doing whatever it takes—so you can focus on your new career?

Take a look at your life—both professional and personal—and identify these three things: (1) What you enjoy doing most, (2) What you enjoy doing least, and (3) How you can move those less meaningful and unproductive tasks off your plate and delegate them to someone else. The goal is to do more of #1: What you enjoy doing most.

I am turning over complete responsibility on less productive tasks so I can work on the things that make me happy and that I’m good at.