Thursday, June 5, 2014

Take stock and revamp

When you're doing business for any length of time, it's easy for some things to fall through cracks. What do I mean?

  • You deviate from your planned/established procedures
  • Damaging behaviours creep in, especially when taken for granted that it's a one off experience 
  • Your systems are not really systems, only an ad hoc set of behaviours clumped together 
What do you do?
  • You will feel overwhelmed
  • You will experience the frustration of not truly making progress 
  • Stress levels will increase in all facets of your life - you get the picture 
STOP AND TAKE STOCK
  • Examine what you're doing and the results you're getting 
  • Identify where changes need to be made; get help if you need to
  • Make the changes, and then evaluate to see if they're working 
Here's what you'll find
  • You may become more organized achieving more in less time
  • Your stress levels will decline
  • You will feel more in control of what you're doing and what you wish to achieve 
  • Ever so slight, you'll start to experience some successes 
  • Stopping and taking stock often enough will even result in your becoming a bigger success than you've ever been
Don't take my word for it. Try it for yourselves. You owe it to yourselves, your family, and your business; whatever it may be. Begin to take steps today to improve the quality of your living. 

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