Balanced Business Growth

Business Growth – Roadblocks?

The roadblocks are what is blocking your journey to growth now!

Do you know what you want to achieve?

Growth means change, and change is always tough, uncomfortable, expensive, inconvenient and sometimes thought to be impossible. Change is tackling your roadblocks.

And believe it or not, the first step is to know not only what you want, but why you want it.

When first engaging with a client the first question we ask is “Why do you want to achieve growth?“

What is Your Why?

This is important because it goes to the heart of your motivation. If you’re not crystal clear as to why you want what you want, then when the usual procrastination triggers occur you’re very likely to fall prey to them. This may sound a little off the wall, but you may not want what you think you want, or you may not want it for the reasons you think.

Your why may be to help others, educate your kids, take 3 months holidays, visit Petra or book a ticket on a rocket to Mars.

Why? Because for the most part we live our lives unconsciously, and we set ourselves goals and follow them unconsciously.

When we get in touch with what really matters to us, we often discover that what we really want is much more simple than what we thought we were after all along.

Roadblocks are there to be knocked down. Are you ready to swing the sledgehammer?

Are You Facing One of These Common Business Challenges?

Running your own business is always a mixture of challenges, successes and, sometimes, even failures. The challenges come in all shapes and sizes and your success as a business owner is measured by your ability to confront each challenge, identify the cause, create strategies to overcome the challenge and to enact those strategies. It is unlikely you will always win, however, you have a much better chance by analysing and understanding your challenges as they arise…

Why? The 3 Enemies of success: Lack of Motivation; Your social circle; You have a Good business already.

Lack of Motivation

We lose our motivation because we get distracted or overwhelmed when we encounter a challenging task. So we begin to lose sight of our long-term goals and the rewards of accomplishing it.

Your Social Circle

A man is known by the company he keeps. We tend to form friendships and close relationships with people we have similar ideas, outlooks, and tastes with, but we also start to adapt to each other’s habits along the way. In short, you tend to become like the people you hang out with.

The Business is Good

Throughout your long journey, you will encounter plenty of hurdles that will make you want to give up. It will be tempting to just go back and end your journey when you think you’ve already gotten far, but don’t go back.

There will always be a way around each problem if you put your mind and heart to it. Think about why you started in the first place.

It will be hard, but it will be worth it.

The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history.

The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, transforming every aspect of society, from business to culture and from the public sphere to our most private moments.

The old methods no longer cut through. How do we cope with accelerating innovation?

We become as quick and innovative as we can. The technologies that are the source of the problem can be the solution to the problem if we are open to emergence.

Opening up minds to what is possible and the energy that is needed to make the transition from an intellectual experience to real-life was our mission.

It needed human energy and passion to ignite. This is where motivation came in.

Motivation was the missing key that linked the understanding of achievement to the energy it took to get in motion to move toward achievement. Motivation is having the desire and willingness to do something.

If your potential customers are online then perhaps you need to be there too! But the hows, wheres and the whys are commonly fraught with misunderstanding.

Good digital marketing comes from a superior understanding of your industry, your products and services, your competitors and your existing customers / history.

You cannot divorce yourself from the process nor can you simply offload it to a third party.

Few business owners want to hear or accept this because they need another problem like they need a hole in the head.

It doesn’t have to be difficult nor time consuming. In fact, it can be interesting and rewarding and, in the process, you will likely save a load of money.

Have you ever wondered what enables some entrepreneurs to exponentially grow their businesses while others go flat, or worse?

Their secret lies in their ability to find and lead what we call their “hidden” organisation.

You might ask “what is my hidden organisation?” and the answer is really worth understanding.

One HR executive with an S&P 500 company that I spoke with said;-

“The gains in productivity of the past few years have been on the backs of our employees who are maxed out. As for myself, during the week I go to work and come home. If I’m lucky I have time to eat dinner, work out, shower and go to bed. I don’t know where we’re going to get the next round of productivity.”

Is that you?

Here are seven strategies guaranteed to increase your productivity…and we don’t use the word “guaranteed” lightly!

  1. Most “To-Do” lists are useless.
  2. Using the “right tools”
  3. What is the most effective use of your time RIGHT NOW?
  4. Know your worth.
  5. Delegate, don’t abdicate.
  6. Post your goals.
  7. Keep a Success Journal.

Are you ready for the next phase of your life?

  1. Decide how fast you’ll want out.
  2. Get your accounting sorted.
  3. Make yourself redundant.
  4. Ensure your business is a well-oiled machine.
  5. Write down how everything happens in your business.
  6. Figure out how to drive up the valuation of your business.
  7. Get a guideline business valuation.

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