Do it in Dog Years

At a recent event at a local business incubator, my host told me that his marching orders from higher up are to get things done in “Dog Years”.
After my initial amusement, using dog years as a metaphor resonated with me.

A dog year is defined as seven human years. A ten year old dog is thought to have lived the equivalent of about seventy human years. A dog has to get a lot done in one human year to keep up. As silly as this analogy is, there is a lesson to be learned by all of us about how we spend our time.

For the sake of moving this forward, I will assume that you, the reader, are ambitious and have personal and business goals that require a sense of urgency. Unfortunately, there are a lot of our peers who don’t have fire in their belly to succeed. They won’t pay the price. It’s just too high.

There is nothing wrong with people who are content to just get by. If making an effort, doing more, working harder, taking risks is not in the cards for a person that’s OK.

That said…some of us want more. Some of us have dedicated ourselves to doing everything in our power to succeed. We go all out all of the time and might not even be aware of it because it has become second nature. Being focused, disciplined and relentless is a way of life that is a common denominator of winners.

The good news is that becoming a winner is easily within the grasp of all of us. A great start to positive change and ramping up to relentlessness is to establish and maintain a sense of urgency. You can do it. Just remember to “Do it in Dog Years”.