To have a successful business whether you are starting your own business or running your own business you must have positive, forward momentum. 

In the last post, I spoke about your small business being like an airplane.  If it is carrying too much baggage then it can’t take off and get you where you want to go.  Small business growth requires momentum. 

The first step to gaining momentum is to lighten your baggage.  Then you can take the plane of your business down the runway and take off.  Small business growth is dependent on keeping your momentum. 

Now you are up in the sky.  You are sailing along.  You are above the clouds.  It took a great deal of energy to take off.  What should you do now?

Pull back on the throttle.  Too many business owners burn out even after they have achieved some degree of success because they never pull back on the throttle and cruise for a while. 

They don’t fully comprehend the importance of their mental and emotional health to their business.  They are the engine that drives their growing small business and creates the steps to business success. 

Yet, they run at full throttle and eventually that engine wears out.  The key to personal and business success is to keep the momentum but at the same time pulling back on the throttle when appropriate. 

Without pulling back on the throttle it is hard to keep perspective.  You make your own business decisions.  But, with a loss of perspective that comes from burnout or overwork you increase the odds of killing your momentum and taking the plane of your business back down through the clouds to a crash landing.