I know everyone reading this post
has experienced change. Yet change
doesn’t mean growth. I thought I was growing because I was
experiencing change. Yet, I had truly faked myself out. My attitudes,
thoughts and the methods I used for approaching things did not change.
Growth Is A Choice
One of the greatest incubators for
growth is becoming a self-employed small
business owner. First, the amount of change you go through to start a
small business and bring it to success is incredible.
You have to grow when change comes
to you. If you don’t very often you can become irrelevant in the market
place. For many small business owners they don’t have a choice. They
have to grow. Small business success is predicated on your ability to grow
in terms of not just sales, but systems, hiring, marketing and other areas.
Growth
Must Be a 360 Degree Endeavor
But for many small business owners
the growth process starts and stops with
their business. As a personal business coach I have many types of clients
from corporate executives to doctors to small business owners and all of them
are successful financially.
They have embraced change and growth
in their businesses. Yet, in their personal lives they may be stuck where
they were 20 years ago. And when successful people are stuck it takes the
joy and enthusiasm out of their lives.
It may have a negative impact on
their business but in many cases it doesn’t. But, in their personal lives
they have not embraced growth. I had one business owner and as we
collaborated together one of his assignments was to take a vacation.
He had completed all the other
assignments on business as we had developed our coaching relationship. Yet,
on this one he came back to me and told me that he couldn’t figure it out.
Growth
Is About Personal Growth
He couldn’t figure it out because
his business was his life and his life was his business. The last time I
checked business was just a part of life. He was stuck because he had not
grown himself in his personal life.
He had not taken a real vacation in
20 years. He didn’t need to be at his business. If we stop to think
about this for a moment what I am about to say is true for all of us. Our
world and growth gets no bigger than the thinking between our ears.
Growth is about seeing yourself and
a better future. As Napoleon Hill said, “What the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.” But the only way to take the steps to growth is to “let
go” of the thinking that is holding us back.
Growth
Is About Letting Go
Until we let
go of old thinking, old ways of spending our private time and old
ways of doing things it will not be possible to have the personal development
to enjoy life to the fullest.
After all, work is supposed to make
life sweet, purposeful and fruitful. But you have to construct a vision of
a personal life to where you can experience the rewards of your good work.
Growth is a choice. Growth is optional. Choose growth as you have in
business. When you choose growth in your personal life you will start
experiencing life instead of existing through it. Choose growth and you
will experience significance in your life.
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