From Nick Bailey…
It is only by learning to embrace and transform the obstacles that come up in opposition to your vision that you’ll be able to achieve it. The obstacles are, in fact, an official part of the solution.
This is why it’s important to allow yourself to think negatively—it’s your brain’s way of communicating what has to be solved and overcome. For any major breakthroughs to be achieved, you have to be willing to transform the obstacles into a plan of action.
If you take the time to consider obstacles, you’ll start to realize how you react when faced with them. Opposition can come from many different places: your mind, your circumstances, or others who are pushing back against you.
The most successful entrepreneurs don’t perceive obstacles as an end point. They view obstacles as the beginning. They state their vision, put measurements on it, have a deadline for achieving it, and brainstorm all the things that might oppose it.
By taking the time to let your brain focus on obstacles, you’ll immediately start moving forward and laying out a game plan. And when you write the obstacles down, your brain immediately starts a transformative process.
If you’re willing to face the obstacles, you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Thoughts from Chris Starkey…
Vision: The best business growth strategy.
Creating a vision is not nearly as complicated as it may seem. It all comes down to shifting your mindset and getting clear on what you’re ultimately looking for in your life and business. “Always make your future is bigger than your past.”
This simple mindset is the best business growth strategy. To give yourself direction on what you want to do going forward, you need to utilize the most important learning and growth experiences from your past.
Ask yourself, “What has been working in my business? What has been my biggest area of learning?”
Think of that specific learning and keep it in mind throughout the creation of your vision and the growth of your business. Looking back on your biggest learning moments will always help to provide direction on the best way to move forward and grow.
The best business growth strategy plan is the one that pushes you out of your comfort zone so you reach a higher level of “normal.” If you can just focus on making your future bigger than your past, you’ll continue to gain momentum and grow your business.
In becoming an entrepreneur, you made a decision to cross the line from a 9-5 mentality, to a results mindset. In a results mindset, there’s no guaranteed income—only the opportunities you create for yourself. This decision is scary, and demanding. It puts you in the driver’s seat for your future freedom, success, and happiness.
But with every jump in your entrepreneurial success comes the potential for increased complexity. It becomes more and more important to create a a mentality of what freedom means for you—a framework for the “Who” not the “How”.
Four things to shift
- TIME: Being increasingly in control over your time and having the freedom to devote it to whatever activities you choose, both personally and professionally.
- MONEY: Having confidence that there is no upper limit or restriction to how much money you can make.
- RELATIONSHIP: Aligning yourself with the people you want to work with—people who give you energy and support your bigger future.
- PURPOSE: Creating an entrepreneurial company that’s not just for your business career, but a vehicle for increasingly living your life the way you want to live it and achieving the things that are most important to you.
Successful entrepreneurs are constantly resetting and refining what represents freedom in each of these areas in order to create a future that’s bigger than their past. You’ll do this too, as you build out your vision.
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