…They never get their business past operating through themselves. This means you aren’t growing, hiring, training or developing any one to run or care for your business in your absence.
How does this help you grow? Well, as a business owner, this cannot be you. <— This is a period. If this is you, you are not cut out for business ownership. Trials meet every business owner, and if you can’t navigate through the tough times, you are wasting your time and the time of others.
I get asked questions like “How do you do it?” “How do you make the time?” “Don’t you ever rest?”
The answer is no. No I don’t rest. I have no idea how I do it, and I don’t make the time…have you seen my ever growing to do list???
This means we have to learn to create small wins for ourselves on the way to a big win. As well, we have to alter our rewards system in a way that doesn’t include damaging behavior, such as reversing our wins. This is often seen with savings or weight loss goals. You cannot reward your gym time with cake and you can’t reward your saving habits with new shoes…
I can’t talk about Assertiveness enough. In a world where busy is often an understatement, I find that people do not assert themselves enough when managing both their time and commitment.
B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!Tweet If you’ve been interested in the field of business, entrepreneurship or just money in general, you’ve been exposed to your fair share of motivational and textbook talk. We’ve heard of the law of attraction, how to organize, how to do more with less, how to push through failure, and […]
