You now have your vision.  You are clear as to what you must do.  Yet, do you have commitment?  Most people will state that they do.  Yet, the truth is most don’t.  At the sign of the first difficulty or set back they will quit. 

Successful small business is about commitment.  It is about commitment to the actions that will help you achieve your vision of the successful business and life.  Here’s the tricky part.  Very often we confuse commitment with involvement.  How many times do we hear someone talk about change yet see nothing happen.  That’s involvement.  It doesn’t work. 

COMMITMENT IS THE KEY!

To grow small business and to have your small business successful you must have commitment.  Very often a small business coaching or business life coaching can add emphasis to your commitment and ultimately increase your odds of success. 

Here’s where small business coaching can help.   Logically, your vision and plan makes sense.  Logic is half the solution.  The second half of the solution, and more often than not the most difficult, is the emotional component. 

Coaching success is about taking that 18 inch highway from the head to the heart and keeping it as clear as possible.  For without clarity, you can’t be committed. 

To Increase Your Opportunity To Be In The Winner’s Circle:

1.  Be clear. 

2.  Be committed. 

3.  Get someone to help you with the clarity and to hold you accountable for the commitment. 

Self-accountability usually doesn’t work.  When you hold yourself accountable to others, whether it be a small business coach, employees or someone else,  you have taken on a performance strategy that can create a successful small business.

Too often when we are self-employed we focus on outside circumstances and things.  In a way, we let them lead our lives.  One of the steps to business success is to be a business owner who knows how to filter the good from the bad.  What I am referring to is your ability to let the good stuff in and to keep the bad stuff out.

Think about it.  Most of the information you receive is because you allow yourself to receive it.  One of the keys to leading yourself to have small business growth and to growth in  life is to look at what you are allowing into your mind.  I have worked with many business owners who see remarkable improvement when they start filtering out the negative information that comes to them.

After all, if you have no control over something there is very little need to keep being informed about it.  Certainly, it is okay to know that it exists.  But, to continually focus on something that you can’t control creates two negatives.

1.  You feel a sense that you are powerless.  This will actually keep you from leading yourself and your business forward. 

2.  The second thing is that once you receive negative information and keep bringing it up it is like bringing up something from the past that you can’t change.  When you can’t change something it will rob you of the initiative to move forward in your business and your life.

You may ask why is developing this filtering mechanism important to your well being.  Remember two things. 

1.  In small business coaching and coaching success I have business owners focus on the fact that their mind is a muscle.  You can lead yourself well by feeding your mind with good positive thoughts. 

2.  Secondly, owning your own businesss andleading yourself in your business and life is not as much about managing time as it is about managing energy.  Time management work is important.  But, the results of time management will be reflected in the level of energy you maintain.

When you are focusing on the present and the future, and the positive they can bring, then you will have the energy.  More importantly, when you have the energy you can carve out the time to do those things that will allow you to design the business and life of freedom and abundance you desire.

Follow the steps to business success and you will lead yourself to the business and life you desire.

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.