Business Keys To Success: You Must Quit To Succeed

One of the interesting paradoxes is that we are raised with the thought that there is something inherently bad or wrong about us when we choose to quit.  Yet, if we don’t quit the thoughts, emotions, ways of thinking and ways of doing things that are holding us back, there is no way we can grow.  If we can’t grow then we can’t succeed.

In order to grow and succeed you must quit.

Learn To Quit=Learn To Grow

In my personal business coaching practice I have observed over many years that the greatest success among the self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs, solo professionals, corporate managers and executives belongs to those who have learned how to quit.

They have learned to quit their old role and all that goes along with it to embrace a new role that represents growth and a step up the ladder of success.  They have quit the role but the good news is that they bring all the knowledge and experience from the previous role with them.  This provides a solid foundation for the new challenges ahead.

Whether you are looking at personal, corporate or small business success it is interesting to note that more often than not, the greatest success stories are the individuals who are willing to quit in order to grow.

Quit-Do Less And Accomplish More

I am not talking here about doing less to move your business and life forward.  There will be new processes and innovations or just plain change that will keep us involved.

What I am talking about here as you move up the stairway of success is to distill down to the essence of who you are.  If you can focus your role more on who you are you will quit those things that aren’t working for you.  As you grow they can be delegated to others or there may be a new process that can take over a function that you previously performed.

The goal is the distillation process is to quit as many areas as you can that are not honoring who you are.  The result is that you now have more time to be working in your strength zones.

When your days are spent more in your strength zones you are able to dig deeper and to accomplish more.  You are focusing on fewer things, yet you are now positioned in terms of time, energy and focus to accomplishing more.

Quit-Deliver Maximum Value

When you start doing less by working in your strength zones you will start working more effectively, with more power and greater focus.  When you quit and are focused on what you do very well you will end up delivering more value with less effort.

Obviously, the realization of working in your strength zones to deliver more value with less effort is a process.  It can take years.  But when you learn to quit you are on the road to delivering greater value with less effort.

Quit And Experience Success

Let go of what doesn’t work.  Quit something when you realize that your time could be more productive when spent differently.

The reward is that you start living your life honoring “who” you are and how you want to live it.  In the end, there is no success until you learn how to quit.

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Make Your New Year Truly New: Success Planning

2013 is slowly winding down. At the end of every year it is imperative to think about the success planning for the following 12 months. This time of the year is perfect to reflect and see what you have done in your personal and business lives.   

Understanding the keys to success, regardless of your work status (entrepreneur, solo professional or self-employed business owner) starts with where you came from to where you have arrived over the past year.  It is essential to make sure your course for the next year is charted well.

Just like the old saying, without a plan, there’s no course to follow. Get a pad and pen and begin charting your course for 2013.

The first step is to write down what your professional and individual goals are and why they are important to you. Why are they important and how will they motivate you to make your life better down the road. Understanding where you’ve been helps you chart your future more effectively. Once the groundwork is laid out, think of five goals you want to realize in 2014. Don’t go too far out in time because the goals may seem unattainable.

After the five goals are established, determine what’s the most-to-least-important. Doing this will help you establish a time-line to meet and exceed your goals. The simplest way to grow your company and make more money is to follow these steps. It will vastly increase the odds of greater prosperity. 

Regardless if you are in the process of creating your own business, at an early point of starting your own business or you are an expert at running a small business, success planning at any stage will help things smooth out and grow faster. 

Planning may include new processes, personnel, new markets, etc.  You may even look at having a personal business coach to accelerate the process of your successful performance.  Regardless, the planning itself will result in a much better outcome.  I can tell you from coaching success comes from that a large part of it comes from developing an effective plan, coupled with a burning desire to execute the plan. But many ask why success planning is so integral? The main reason is that creating your ideal plan is what helps and guides you to take action towards its fulfillment.  

When you are managing yourself and running a company with a success plan,  you are much more likely to become excited and focus on measurable results. Without a success plan, it is more likely for an individual and a company to get off course. 

Imagining your future helps you make it a reality. Once the future is finished in your mind, then what you need to do in the present becomes absolutely clear.  Success planning gives you the finished plan to create the future you desire.  With a success plan, your 2014 can be personally and professionally fulfilling. You can also have more vigor and time!

If you would like to get a jump start on 2014 visit www.businesskeystosuccess.com and start now to create the future you desire.  You will begin your road to success planning and to learn how to develop the professional and personal life that you deserve. The weekly lessons, sent via e-mail helps you and your business grow step-by-step.

The Business Keys To Success course is self-paced – so you learn and move as fast you want to! Focusing on your individual growth, this course can help anyone, including a self-employed business owner, to take his/her business and/or personal life to the next level. 

Why is personal development crucial to personal and business excellence? Here’s some food for thought. If you want to make more money, be happier, expand your company or anything you want to improve, personal development is the key that unlocks your potential.

Www.BusinesssKeystoSuccess.com can be the foundational start to begin reflecting on your past, present and future.  After all, the best investment we can make is in ourselves.  Seldom will our businesses and lives get bigger than our thinking.  Invest in yourself today.   Commence your success planning and start on the road to becoming more and having more. 

About Author:-

First things first, I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach. Yes, I have received training and been coaching since 1983. I have gone through and continue to happily go through more personal development.

Personal development and its quest for personal growth, more often than not, are the missing links in the chain of business and personal success.As Warren Buffett once said, "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." For more information please visit- http://www.thehoustonbusinesscoach.com

The Twilight Zone Is A Key to Success

You may ask, "How is the twilight zone a key to success?"  It's a good question and I will do my best to give some insights into the answer.

You can learn a lot during the holiday season, including finding out your individual keys to success in business and life. The majority of people go through a pre-determined, or semi-pre-determined routines in their lives and this is especially true during the holidays.  And as we enter the Holidays and start transitioning into the New Year we enter a time where we reflect on the past year, the present and what we want to have in the year ahead.  This time is the twilight zone.  As 2013 comes to an end and its light starts to fade we will ponder what has happened and plan for 2014..

The twilight zone, the end of the year time,  is easy to understand. It is a part of the natural rhythm of business and life.  For some business is excellent.  For others it slows down.  For some it remains the same.  Yet for all of us, regardless of business or life circumstances the twilight zone foretells the curtain of our latest act in life coming down only to be greeted after some darkness with the light coming up and a new curtain rising.  

As a business owner I encourage you to take advantage of the twilight zone and to step back and think about your situation. As this year ends, and the next begins, it is the ideal time to evaluate yourself, your business and where you presently are. Topics to evaluate over the past year include what occurred and what was forecasted to happen.  As the New Year approaches you will have the time to see what worked and see what has not.  

Regardless of your career choice and position, enjoying and learning from the twilight zone, whether you are a solo professional, self-employed business owner, an individual, entrepreneur, employed or between jobs, is to grab as much knowledge as you can and utilize it to create a better future in 2014.

Using this time wisely is one of the best of the keys to success. Looking back for the last 12 months, ask yourself what did I set out to do?  What did I accomplish?  And what do I need to change and will change to improve my future?

When in the twilight zone, the final and most important question to ask yourself is how do you want the rest of your life to look? If for years your business has been your life and your life is your business then something is wrong.  The last time I checked, business is just a part of life.  Not having a clearly defined outlook on a good and satisfying life makes attaining it much harder. If you want your business to experience small business growth or you want a more fulfilling personal life, without an idea of it, it’s that much harder to accomplish.  

And here's the good news.  Business and life is not an "either/or" proposition.  It is when visualized correctly, a "both/and" proposition. 

Savor your experience in the twilight zone as each year winds down.  the keys to success for one’s life. It enables you to reflect and determine ones future. And this time, when used to reflect and evaluate is one of the keys to success.

Your experience in the twilight zone enables you to be renewed, recharged and get a different perspective on things. It is the perfect opportunity to lay out success planning for your professional and personal life. 

The twilight zone provides you with the best opportunity to change your future business and life for the best. It is a time for clarity that comes from having time to think and reflect. 

There are many keys to success, but modifying how your thinking works will have the greatest impact. Doing this has a positive and wave-like impact upon your business and personal experiences.

When you modify your thinking, your habits will be forever modified.

After your habits and re-molded, your activity will be different.

After your activity is modified, you will experience different results.

When you are able to modify your results, your life will become better and better.

At this time of year, stop to enjoy the twilight zone. Step back, take a few moments and see where you are. Modify your thinking patterns, and then your life will be different, not to mention, better.

Utilize your key to success, the twilight zone, to improve your business and personal life in the coming year.  Wishing all of you the best now and in the New Year! 

About Author :-
First things first, I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach. Yes, I have received training and been coaching since 1983. I have gone through and continue to happily go through more personal development.

Personal development and its quest for personal growth, more often than not, are the missing links in the chain of business and personal success.As Warren Buffett once said, "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." For more information please visit- http://www.thehoustonbusinesscoach.com