Today we’re talking about a GREEN day.
I personally love GREEN days because they often set the direction for great future SKY BLUE days. If you never step back from your business and look in from the outside then you can find yourself caught in a vortex of day to day running which can overwhelm you over time.
GREEN days are the days when we do strategy and forward thinking. They’re when we work ‘on the business’ and have a day off from working ‘in the business.’ Sound great?
Having a day off?
They are great but you simply can’t have one every day because the business can’t run itself while you’re having a day off!
GREEN days need to be planned wisely and preferably in advance. Get your business ready for you to have a GREEN day. Make sure you have plenty of good solid SKY BLUE and ORANGE days before you have a GREEN day. Otherwise your great GREEN day will quickly turn into a black day.
Our GREEN day happens once a quarter when Lindsay (my business partner) and I go to the top of Mount Dandenong and spend a day working on the next quarter’s goals and objectives. There is a restaurant there and we can reserve a table looking out over the whole of Melbourne and its surrounds for the day. We only have to pay for drink and food for the day so we get great surroundings to do this at an affordable cost.
This sets the tone for a great GREEN day each quarter and one that we both look forward to. It is a day of accountability to each other, accountability to the goals and objective’s of the last quarter and the pleasure of planning what we’re going to achieve in the next quarter. A great GREEN day for One Sherpa.
