DO YOU HAVE A PLAN B?

                 
Recently a good friend, Darren Gross who produces a Commercial Real Estate Pro Network blog on Blog Talk Radio, interviewed me for one of his radio post. Darren was interested in what does an individual do now that we are at the 2/3rds mark in the year and we realize that we are not achieving the goals that we set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year.

Often we start off with a plan at the beginning of the year with good intentions of making great achievements and we arrive at this nine-month period and realize we are not on track to achieve our goals. What do we do now? Many times at the beginning of the year we set our goals and have a plan to achieve them but they are either so far out there in the future that we feel we have plenty of time, so there is no urgency to get started, or the goals are so big that we feel overwhelmed and it prevents us from getting started as well. So now that we are at this nine-month period, what do we do?

Do we abandon the plan all together or do we create a plan B.

I do not recommend abandoning the plan all together. But we must be realistic and realize that we are probably not going to accomplish the original goals so we need to recalibrate and refocus on what we can realistic accomplish in the next four months. We need a plan-B.

This new recalibration should still be a stretch, but the goals should also be accomplishable. I would recommend that we write these four-month goals down and put them in a place where we can read them everyday. This will reinforce them in our minds and our subconscious minds will go to work to help us achieve them.

We must also prevent the distractions that get in the way of us accomplishing our goals. Many of us have too many distractions and clutter in our lives that prevent us from really focusing. We must be intensely focused in order to maximize our potential results. Especially with only four months left in the year.

Do you have a plan B?

Are you not where you thought you should be in your business by this fourth quarter? If so, call us; we can dramatically improve your individual and organization effectiveness.

 

 

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          ARE YOU WAITING FOR PERFECTION

In my last blog post I discussed how marketing is a proactive not a reactive activity? We can’t wait around for marketing to happen, we have to make it happen. And we do that by reaching our to our customers and clients often. Communicating frequently the value we provide.

But often I find clients hesitant to send that blog post or write that article, or just get started. They want to tweak and adjust and tweak and adjust again and again their content or their message trying to make it perfect. . This continues until nothing happens and the post or article doesn’t get sent to their clients or potential clients.

Are you waiting for perfection in what you write before you send it out? Are you waiting to make that perfect video before you send it to your customers and clients? The thing about marketing is that it is better to get your message out there regularly and consistently. It doesn’t have to be perfect. This is not to say that is shouldn’t be of good or excellent quality, but it is not necessary for it to be perfect in our eyes. It’s better to get your message out there.

Communicate with your clients and customers often and consistently. It’s most likely that your competition isn’t doing this.

Are you struggling to achieve the kind of results that you should be making in your business? Are you not where you thought you would be by now? Do you want to make more money and have more free time? Call us, we can show you how.

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                                     MOTIVATION

Are you motivated to achieve amazing results in your business and your personal life?

                                 How does one get motivated?

We get motivated when we get results. It’s like going to the gym and seeing that we are loosing weight and looking better after putting in the effort. This motivates us to want to keep going, to work out harder and more often. Results generate the motivation to keep going, to repeat our previous efforts.

Clarity of direction with a plan of action, intense focus coupled with the discipline to keep going generates results. And when we get results, we get motivated.

Incredible results provide an amazing amount of motivation to keep going and to do it again and again to achieve the greatest success you have ever experienced in your business and personal lives. What is your level of motivation today?

We can’t continue to hope success will fall into our lap, or by some kind of luck we will be granted more happiness and success. Success is not going to fall from the sky into our lap. Clarity, a plan of action, focus and discipline generate results. Results will motivate you to even greater success. But there is no short cut. We have to follow the process.

It’s time to take charge of your future. What do you want in your business and personal life? Do you want greater results, the kind of results that can motivate you on to even greater success and fulfillment? Then contact us and we will show you how.

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                       IS DISCIPLINE OVERRATED?

Absolutely not! The genus of all successful people is rooted in discipline.

I’m not talking about the kind of discipline that is synonymous with punishment, but the kind of discipline that produces the desired outcome    of an organization on a regular and continuous basis.

Aristotle said; “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”

World-class athletes, famous musicians, elite military teams such as the Navy Seals all have the same thing in common. They express their talents with predictable precision, which is achieved through disciplined and repeated practice. They are in the habit of practicing over and over until they get it right.

In Jim Collins book, Good to Great, he asserts that great companies have a strong culture of discipline. If discipline leads to greatness, then the lack of discipline leads to chaos, confusion and unpredictable results.

Successful people have the discipline to stay at it and work to continually improve on what they are doing. They practice the discipline of continuous improvement. they don’t give up.

Successful business owners have clarity of direction, a plan of action to bridge the gap between their current state and their desired future. They have intense focus on working this plan and they have the discipline to stay with it each and everyday, working to continually improve on the plan to achieve incredible results.

Are you lacking clarity, a plan of action and focus? Do you need help developing the discipline necessary to achieve dramatic improvements in your individual and organizational effectiveness? Call us if you want to eliminate the status Quo and make significant improvements in your success.

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                  WHAT ARE YOU FOCUSED ON?

Once we have clarity of direction for our business and our personal life, and have created a plan of action to achieve the success we desire, we then need to develop an intense focus on the plan of action.

Many people that I run into underestimate the power of focus and the need to develop an unapologetic focus on our plan of action. We need to eliminate the distractions in our lives that prevent us from achieving success. What is the highest and best use of our time, energy and money? How can we focus on applying these assets to achieve the maximum results? We need to start thinking more strategically about our business and elevate our focus, thinking and actions to a higher level. Business as usual will not do.

The challenge is our own human nature. Over time we get distracted and become consumed with non-essential, low-priority stuff, which causes us to get overwhelmed, and then we waste our time, talent, energy and money on the wrong type of work. We get busy being busy and we lose sight of what is most important to us in our business and personal lives. As such our lives become complex, cloudy, confusing and stressful.

We all have only so much time, energy and money. Once we have a clear vision and a plan of action to take us from our current state to our desired future we need to be intensely focused on the vision and the plan to make great strides in our business. Focus is the ability to direct our thoughts, attention and action towards our desired results.

Focus is a necessary condition for outstanding performance and greater success in our business and personal lives.

Are you in need of clarity of direction and a plan of action on how to bridge the gap between your current state and your desired future? Do you need help focusing? Give us a call. We can help to dramatically improve your individual and organizational effectiveness.

 

 

 

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               I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!

                   Having a clear vision is critical to our success

In my last blog I admonished my readers to stop working so hard. That putting our heads down and working harder and harder isn’t the path to business success, but instead, we need to slow down and take a 30,000’ view of our businesses to determine our current state or our reality. Where are we in our business and personal life? Does it look anything like what we envisioned it would look like when we started our business? Are we where we thought we would be in our business both personally and professionally?

Once we have a clear idea of our current state, what does the desired future look like for our business and our personal life. And I do stress, both personally and professionally. We need to consider both. It’s not like we have a business life or don’t have a business life, or that we have a personal life or we don’t have a personal life. We have a life, and more often than not the two are enter-twined.

In order to see clearly, we need to determine what we want our future to look like. We need to create a vision of the future, 5-years from today. I discussed working backwards from five-years, to three-years, then to one-year. What does the future of our business and personal life look like? If we are not clear and don’t determine where we want to be in our business and personal life, it is very unlikely that we will attain the desired results.

Success in business and our personal life starts with a clear vision. We need to be proactive in order to change our current state into our desired future. It’s not likely to fall into our lap. So dream big, be bold, think amazing and visualize the future. We are the roots of our own success. Imagine the future state and write it down.

This can be your greatest year ever, but it starts with clarity of direction. Seeing clearly where it is you want to go professionally and personally.

Need help with developing clarity of direction? Then contact us. We are experts in organizational development and helping our clients to create their future success.

 

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                                      WHY ARE YOU WORKING SO HARD?

                                STOP IT!

YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK SO DARN HARD TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS A

                                                        SUCCESS

So many business owners and executives today are working harder and harder, running on the treadmill of life that just goes faster and faster, and they can’t work any harder or run any faster.

We don’t have to work harder and harder to make our business a success. Putting our head down and plodding along hoping that it will change is not a good strategy. So stop it. Stop thinking that if you just work harder and harder your business will improve.

I am here to tell you that you don’t have to work harder. But you do need to learn some key principles that will help you work smarter and more efficiently.

In order to do that, we may need to slow down. This may sound counter intuitive, but we need to slow down and step away from our busyness and take a 30,000’ view of our business. What does it look like? What is our current state? What is our current reality?

Then you need to decide what you want your business to look like in the future. What would you like your business to look like five years from now? Then work backwards. If this is your desired future five years out, what must your business look like in three years? Then in order to attain the three-year vision, where must your business be one year from today?

This is clarity of direction, a vision of the future. This is the first step in my Business Growth Acceleration Loop that can dramatically improve your success and has helped my clients achieve 30% to over 300% improvements in their business success.

What to make a dramatic improvement in your business today? What are you waiting for? Stop working so hard and call me today.

http://www.thegrowthcoachportland.com

503-312-3145

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