The keys to success in any business is to continually be looking for ways to improve not only the business but ownership as well. We as business professionals need to be working to continually improve emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually in order to find balance in our lives. Success in business is not guaranteed, so we need to avail ourselves of every opportunity to learn, grow and improve. A business coach can help the owner with goal setting in these areas.
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Yeah in holding people accountable and clients accountable, what I found is that they’re very appreciative that I’m checking in on them, that I’m holding them accountable. Often times I hear “yeah, you know what, I haven’t done that yet but I thank you for calling me” or “thank you for checking in. I’m going to get on it.” I find that people are appreciative that I am holding them accountable and because it’s easy to get off track. It’s just so easy to do because there are a lot of distractions. It’s interesting in that I have not one individual that isn’t pleased that I’ve checked in on them and I actually ask them questions on how they’re going progressing towards their goals and their action plans – are they making progress? What can I do to help you? They’re all very appreciative and they’re being held accountable. They know from past experience that they haven’t achieved their goals and their action plans and part of the key piece of that is no one’s holding them accountable.
I think very successful people have some key things that they do. One, they’re very good at focusing and they believe in continuous improvement, not only in their business but their personal life as well. They’re working on not only being emotionally fit but physically fit, mentality fit and for some people spiritually fit as well. They’re working on finding balance in those 4 areas and where you do this continually improve. Very successful people read quite often. They tend to exercise regularly and they tend to focus on those things that bring not only good health and good physical health and mental health as well. So they’re physically fit and mentally fit to be able to handle the challenges that come at them at a daily basis, because every business has challenges and has issues and you have to be physically and mentally fit in order to handle those challenges so I think I firmly believe in continuous improvement in all four areas and in order to find balance in my life is that I have to continually work in those 4 areas in my life and continually trying to improve them. So I read ferociously. I love to read. I exercise every day and I work on those aspects of my life to keep myself physically and mentally fit because I can’t impart something to somebody else that I don’t have. I have to have those attributes and those traits. I have to continually be learning about my own profession but other professions as well so that I can impart knowledge and wisdom to other people. I can’t give something I don’t have.
I don’t think anybody starts out in business to fail. Failure is certainly a part of life and we have to learn from our failures, pick our self up and keep going. The most important thing is not so much what happens to us, it’s our actions and what we do in result of what happens to us that has the greatest impact of ourselves and those around us. We have to keep moving, we have to pick ourselves up and we have to keep moving forward. I think very successful people work at continually moving forward towards their goal and realizing that I got into business because not so like I fail but I wanted to be successful, everybody does. To realize that maybe I don’t have all the skill sets necessarily to be successful, so in order to ensure my success, why wouldn’t I want to learn some of the other skills that I need to be successful? Why would I want to inhibit myself? Why would I want to tie an anchor around my ankle and keep dragging myself? Why wouldn’t I want to take advantage of the opportunity to learn from others on how to be successful?
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