“Profit is better than perfection.” Do you find yourself continually caught in trying to make things perfect? You may be in a trap that many business owners find themselves – afraid to pull the trigger on a decision, release a product or send out a marketing piece because it just needs a little more research or tweaking. Making something perfect can take away your opportunity to get your business moving forward and may be creating long hours in the office. […]
This Victory Over Procrastination series will support you achieving your goals and help you make running your business smoother. Strategy 5: Language Determines Outcomes! It is within you to have the results you didn’t think possible by simply changing your language! The words you speak create the world you live in — the lens in which you look through. If you say “it is difficult to get rid of tolerations,” then guess, what? You just made it difficult because you said so. If you say, “it’s hard to make sales calls,” then the universe is absolutely going to agree with you. […]
This Victory Over Procrastination series will support you achieving your goals and help you make running your business smoother. Strategy 4: A Process to Eliminate It! “New Results Require New Action!” Do you ever wonder why the same procrastination problems repeat? To eliminate nagging, stubborn tolerations from your list you must have a new mindset and take new action. Applying the same behaviors and expecting new results is often called insanity. […]
This Victory Over Procrastination series will support you achieving your goals and help you make running your business smoother. Strategy 3: Getting Unstuck! Don’t you wish you had a magic key to solve all your problems — in this case for eliminating your tolerations?! As adults we come to realize that excellent processes will assist us in achieving our desired results. The same holds true for eliminating each item on your toleration list. What is the best process? Not all tolerations are created equal. Certain tolerations are stubborn and refuse to budge. […]
This Victory Over Procrastination series will support you achieving your goals and help you make running your business smoother. Strategy 2: Creating a new Mindset! “Use what was missed as a resource for your future.” How do you best reverse the affects of procrastinating?! As mentioned in last week’s audio, procrastinating is resistance to taking forward action toward your outcomes. An interrupting event occurs in your day or week and then Bam! – you’re off course. Something gets in the way of your progress. […]
We’ve created this special series to inspire you to achieve your outcomes. Champion athletes and teams leverage many fundamentals to win the game. This series covers 7 basic fundamentals to help you stay on target and win in your business. Winning Strategy 6: Equipping to Win! “Strength has no place where skill is required.” —John Long, World-Class Rock Climber. How are you equipping your team to win at the game of business? How are you daily equipping yourself to be a leader of a winning team? It’s a wonder how an average team can come to be a championship team with the leadership of the head coach. The coach equips individuals to win as a team. You are the head coach and leader of your business. You are responsible for influencing and providing employees with the necessary tools, guidance and inspiration to achieve the outcomes you’ve set. […]
We’ve created this special series to inspire you to achieve your outcomes. Champion athletes and teams leverage many fundamentals to win the game. This series covers 7 basic fundamentals to help you stay on target and win in your business. Winning Strategy 4: Use Modeling to Accelerate Success! Wouldn’t it be great to find a way to accelerate your business growth and get rid of your biggest headaches? Think back to when you were a kid, trying to learn a sport. What was the fastest way to learn a new skill or “trick”? You probably learned from those who had already mastered that sport or skill. You may have modeled a sports hero, friend or older neighbor kid from down the block. You did your best to copy them so that you could take on the winning behavior. Consider how modeling changed the game of football for every quarterback. [...]
We’ve created this special series to inspire you to achieve your outcomes. Champion athletes and teams leverage many fundamentals to win the game. This series covers 7 basic fundamentals to help you stay on target and win in your business. Winning Strategy 3: Training Your Mind and Body to Succeed! “Practice Puts Brains in Your Muscles.” –Sam Sneed, Professional Golfer. Practice does not make perfect; Practice creates a habit! What daily practices are you doing to train your mind and body for success? Are those practices in alignment with your “Big Why?” Do those daily practices move you toward specific outcomes for your business year? My experience is that most small business owners are hard working and doing multiple, varied activities to keep their business alive and well. On top of this, they want to grow their business and have more control. Eliminating business headaches and [...]
We’re almost at the last day! Here is the 11th of our holiday gifts to you! Use these strategies to finish your year strong and get ready for a successful start to the new year. This one is a gift for your personal success! Gold Nugget #11: Invest in Yourself! I love learning and I am passionate about teaching. One of the year-end activities I complete is a professional development plan for the upcoming year. Both my partner and I are on a continual learning journey in order to invest in ourselves so we might provide greater value to our team and clients. Topics may include leadership, productivity, sales — whatever is needed to round out our education to be the best Business leaders we can be. […]
“A bad system will beat a good person every time.” – W. Edwards Deming Have you ever had one of those weeks where you’re just running to keep up with every deadline and demand? And then the following week’s business stacks on top of what you couldn’t finish the previous week?! It’s important as business owners to have a system to keep focus on the important business matters vs. living in “urgency.” Here are 5 simple approaches I’ve used and passed along to my clients to help keep the frenzy down and productivity up. […]
