Successful Small Business: Different Isn’t Necessarily Better.
Think about this. The four or five most dangerous words in the English language are:
- “It’s different here.”
- “It’s different this time.”
Somehow when we see or hear these words we are moved, without even realizing it, to thinking that the information, product or service that is being discussed is somehow better.
Those few words can move us to make a decision to be involved with something that is different. And, we don’t take the time to pause and reflect on whether or not different is truly better. As a business and life coach I work at being better because that makes me different. And, it makes me different in a positive way.
For all of us we should be striving to be better. Growing small business and small business growth is about being better. But to make our businesses better the first step to business success we must take is to grow ourselves. To be better we must grow. How do we grow? We must develop new disciplines. After all, if we keep doing things the same way over and over again nothing is going to change.
You may say that’s obvious and you are right. What is not obvious is how to go about affecting the change you desire. Personally, I have faced this challenge myself. And, the good news is that I have overcome it. I have made myself better. And that is what makes me different. I am a firm believer in small business books, small business ebooks and small business courses.
They have helped me greatly. Yet, for the most part, they did not specifically address the challenges of owning your own business. After 30 years of owning several businesses and coaching hundreds of business owners, I have put together an ebook and home study course to help you create pathways to upgrade your business and your life
If you are committed to being better in your business and your life I have a couple of suggestions as to where to start. For the self-employed there is the Progress Set Free Ebook. The little acknowledged truth about self-employment is that we seek greater freedom and abundance yet we very often end up putting ourselves in bondage to our own creation. The Progress Set Free Ebook will start you on the road to creating pathways to upgrade your business and your life.
And, if you really wish to have the business, life, freedom and abundance you desire then the Progress Set Free Home Study Course . It can help accelerate moving you to becoming more and having the business and life you desire.
Unfortunately, most people wait for something to happen to them. In coaching success, it reminds me of a story back in another time when homes were heated by wood stoves. There was a man who was freezing and very unhappy with his life. He started having an arguement with his stove because it wasn’t giving him any heat. He said, “Give me the heat. Then I’ll give you the wood.”
And that’s the challenge for many people. They want something yet they won’t commit to putting something in. As a result, you have the perfect formula for the result “nothing much happens here.” For the few who choose to be better we are willing to first put something in. And that’s what makes them different.
Check out and get involved in the Progress Set Free Ebook or the Progress Set Free Home Study Course. When you do you will committing yourself to being better, being different and having your Progress Set Free.
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