Provider of Choice

A growing business is making the world a better place by being the provider of choice for consumers who act in their own interests.  If more consumers are choosing your products or services then you are increasingly becoming the provider of choice by making lives better.

Are you growing?

Irrevocable Resolve

Once you have decided on accomplishing a goal, you must not change your mind.  It will be done.

Things will get tough if it is a worthy goal.  You can change your strategy, tactics and methods (and often should as you learn), but you must never waiver in your resolve to the end goal.

What is the strength of your resolve?

Defeating Fear

What is the worst that can happen?  Determine to accept it if it comes true.  

Now get to work to make sure it doesn’t happen.

How far can you take this thing?

The only way to find out is to quit trying to get better.  Then that’s it.  That’s as far as you can take it.

But if you believe it can be better, smoother, faster, bigger, and easier, you will continue finding ways to make it happen.

You’re the leader.  What do you believe about your business?

Are you proud of your "PLACE"

You are competing with other employers for the best employees.  And once you get them, their committment can halve or double their engagement.  

An investment in the quality/cheerfulness/coolness/cleanliness etc., of the workplace and space is one that pays for itself many times over.

Risk and Reward

There’s no playing it safe.  You have to take some risks.  

If you don’t, you lose.

Committed fanatics are good at stuff!

Do you know someone who is a committed fanatic that is not good at what they are fanatically committed to?  No way!  

If you want to be successful at work, you have to be good – REALLY good!  If you want to be great at something commit to it – like a fanatic!

Transcend "the work"

Can you do more valuable work than the work your company does?  In other words, if I own a painting company, I likely started out as a painter.  If I take 5,000 brush strokes in a day, that’s worth a given amount.  But can I do work that is more valuable than that as the owner of a painting company?  

The answer is yes.  I could recruit and train other painters, I could sell lots of work, or create new systems my team can use to deliver my services over many years in a way that clients would value more.  Of course, I’d have to learn how to do this and want to.

The idea that we are confined to doing whatever it is our company does is a trap that most entrepreneurs are in.  But businesses are the greatest multiplication, magnification and leverage tool ever created IF we know how to do it right. 

Transcend from “self employment” to “business owner”.

Habits confine us

Our habits of thinking and doing things each day are our what confine us to the results we are getting.

Changing those habits of thinking and doing are the key to getting entirely new results.

What groove are you in? Is it time to jump out?

Results Amplifier

You’re the leader.  Your team members do the work.  What can you do to amplify their results?  What caplital investments can you make to help them perform?  What training can you provide to help them “get it done”?  What positive reinforcement and public recognition can you provide to bring out the best in the team?  

The leader is the amplifier.  Are you working?