After you complete a Personal SWOT Analysis
Once you’ve completed your personal SWOT analysis you can now use what you’ve learnt to ensure you’re competitive within your field and a top performer within your business. Use the results to capitalise on your strengths, manage your weaknesses, explore opportunities and monitor threats. You could match up your strengths and opportunities to optimise your growth and progress.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant
Building new positive habits can ensure you continue to improve and progress. Productive long-term habits are formed in incremental stages. If you improve every area of your life in small steps, you will become unstoppable. The difference between you and an expert performer, is they’ve dedicated their lives to improving their performance.
Everyone looks for shortcuts: Tricks and hacks won’t make you better at everything right now. There are no ‘overnight successes’. Think of all the incredible people you admire in every industry, they didn’t succeed because of one giant move, but rather because of a series of small and consistent actions over time.
Conquer big goals by starting with small manageable pieces: If someone told you, you had to read 100 books to improve yourself that goal would seem overwhelming. But if you were to read ten pages a day, that’s a manageable goal that will help you improve yourself by 1% a day.
“Instead of trying to make radical changes in a short amount of time, just make small improvements every day that will gradually lead to the change you want. Each day just focus on getting 1% better in whatever it is you’re trying to improve. That’s it, just 1%,” say Brett and Kate McKay authors of The Art of Manliness.
“It might not seem like much, but those 1% improvements start compounding on each other. In the beginning, your improvements will be so small as to seem practically non-existent. But gradually and ever so slowly, you’ll start to notice the improvements in your life. It may take months or even years, but the improvements will come if you just focus on consistently upping your game by 1%.”
The power of cumulative value: Tiger Woods, Serena Williams and Venus Williams started training very early in life. They all committed to continuous practice every day, their small daily gains, added up to momentous gains over a lifetime.
You can use the personal SWOT analysis to improve every aspect of your life 1% at a time. If you’re focusing on your obstacles or finding resistance when trying to complete your goals, remember the words of Karen Lamb: “A year from now, you will wish you started today.”