Motivation and Small Business Growth
Jim Rohn once said, “Motivation alone is not enough”. Think about it. If motivation were all it took for you to have the business and life you want then you would have it.
When you start your business you are motivated. As Michael Gerber says in the “E-Myth Revisited”, you have an entrepreneurial seizure. You are motivated to start your business. You have a successful vision of the future.
Yet, here you are six months or six years down the road and somehow your motivation has not turned into the reality of what you envisioned. For many who are self-employed, just the opposite has happened.
In fact your motivation has led you to create a job for yourself that you don’t like and/or a business that has put you in bondage. You may be prosperous but somehow the pieces of the puzzle aren’t fitting together.
What can turn this around? To finish the Jim Rohn quotation, “Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and motivate him, you have a motivated idiot.” The point is that all of us have our idiotic tendencies and you must identify yours. Here are three critical points.
- Growing small business is about growing you. If you don’t grow neither will your business.
- Without taking action, new action, nothing will change.
- Is it going to make any more sense tomorrow than it does today to start heading in the direction that will give you the business and life you want?
Be brutally honest with yourself. Get the input of others to give you a clear picture of what you must do to grow your business and your life.
Take the action and you will cure the fear that is holding you back. When you do your motivation will take you in the direction of greater success in your business and life.