Indomitable Will

“You go on.  I can’t climb anymore.”

…much later…

“I saw you up there at the top.  I just couldn’t go on anymore.”

“You couldn’t, or wouldn’t?”

Fair Weather Enemies

Though it’s usually the other way around, and as strange as it may be, some people support you until you start winning.  Then they don’t like you anymore.

This has everything to do with them, and nothing to do with you – unless you have “big head” syndrome (consider you might).

Be graceful and kind, keep winning, and hang around people who support you.

Crabasses in the kitchen

Some people are naturally likable “people persons” who get along with everyone and make them feel good.

Find them and put them in customer contact positions; let them be the faces and voices of your company.

Keep the crabasses (as skilled as they may be) in the kitchen.

Are your best “people people” talking to customers?

Big Fish, Small Pond

If your market is too small and your service too specialized for you to reach your financial goals, you’ll have to add products or services to make it happen.

Be careful and make sure the new “thing” is a related add-on, and not SO different that it’s a diversion.

Self-Discipline

You’ve been at it for hours, your body is tired, your mind could use a rest, you’d love some comfort or some fun,  but your dominant thoughts override all that and you keep going – to do what needs to be done in the time it needs to be done.  You don’t like it, but you take greater satisfaction in its accomplishment.  You do it anyway.

That’s self-discipline; and it’s often the difference between the successful and unsuccessful.

Are you self-disciplined?

Employee Happiness

You can’t have happy customers when you have unhappy employees.

Are your employees happy?

Dis-ease

Is there someone who isn’t performing?  Or worse, someone who is poisoning your well? 

You can’t have a great company with people who don’t want to be there.

Is it time for surgery?

Fat Company

When you don’t trust or believe in people, you create policies, checks, approvals, authorities, layers, rules and paperwork.

Your business has to work harder to burn unnecessary calories.

Do you believe in people?

Do they think so?

Your Company – Free Nation?

You’re the king (or queen).  You call the shots.

Do your employees worry about rules and policies designed to “correct behaviors”? 

Or do they feel they are in an environment that expects them to DO THEIR BEST and are free to do so?

The Revisionist

You’ve tried to accomplish _______________.

You’ve changed strategies, people, tools, and learned about yourself.  Still, it’s not working.

Can you use what you now know to create a plan or goal that WILL work for you?