Small Business Failure or Small Business Success? How are You Feeding Your Mind?
In a couple of other posts I have gone over some of the components that can bring you success in growing your small business.
- Minimize drift and get specific
- Develop new disciplines to support change and embrace it for growth
- You must develop and write down clear goals for the near future and for up to 10 years and beyond.
This section on small business success and growth looks at your mind. Your mind is a muscle. What are you feeding it? Yes, we can look at the books or magazines we read. Or, the TV shows we watch.
Yet, the most important thing for most people that feeds their minds is their associations with other people. Good relationships are an important part of a successful small business.
And, this is the one area where many small businesses fall short. You can start focusing too much on what people can do for you and not enough on who they are.
People love to be acknowledged for who they are. There are three ways that you must look at people to have the good relationships to have the small business growth and success you desire.
1. See them as “Human Doings”–acknowledge and appreciate “what” they accomplish
2. See them as “Human Beings”–acknowledge and appreciate “who” they are
3. Combine the two together to get an accurate picture to build the foundation for great relationships.
When you do that your relationships are more likely to nudge you in the right direction to the success you want. Too often, we look only at accomplishments. We look at what someone can do for us and see nothing more.
See the whole person and in return they are more likely to lift you up and help you to the small business growth and success you desire.