Business Coaching

Implement Your Ideas and Insights

Growing your business means doing more and more, and working harder and harder, doesn't it? Well, certainly the "doing" and the "taking actions" are critical elements. Without action being taken, your business will get nowhere fast. There are also times when you need to stop taking action, sit back and reflect.

I was reminded again of the need to do this recently. Having had a great holiday and lots of time off from my business, I was feeling very relaxed and raring to go. However, on this particular day I felt the need to do even less. To do less was going against my logical thoughts of "You've taken enough time off, it's back to business now", "It would be lazy to do nothing in particular today" and "Just get on with it". These logical thoughts battled for a while with the feeling that I just needed to do very little at that moment.

Although the logical thoughts were winning, there was a tiny voice saying 'Trust yourself'. Eventually I gave into this voice and found myself lying on the sofa listening to some light background music. At first I was mulling over some business and personal items, but before long, I'd drifted into thinking about nothing in particular. Once I'd let all my thoughts go and was in a half-awake half-asleep state, the ideas and insights poured out. Wow, it was amazing how many there were and how quickly they were coming. I had some incredible insights into some business items that I'd been pondering for a while, yet was unsure about what I needed to do. With the insights and ideas captured in writing, I was feeling so inspired that nothing was going to stop me from taking the necessary actions. It's at this point that such actions really count because these enable you to grow your business dramatically.

Ideas and insights in isolation stay that way and will only exist in your mind if not acted upon. So combine the two; ideas and insights plus inspired actions and you have a very powerful combination. A combination that will make your business race ahead with a lot less struggle on your part.

I've noticed through working with many people that they're either always busy doing lots of things or they have great insights and ideas, but there often isn't the necessary mix. Whichever way you're inclined to be, I invite you to consider what it would take to add at least some of the other component to get your business moving faster.

Now Commit to Action!

I invite you to read these questions and answer them for yourself preferably in writing to help you to be more focused.

• If you want to make some changes, what is the first step you need to take?
• What help and support do you need to make these changes permanent?
• What will it take for you to develop strategies for an overall game plan?
• What does it take for you to be open to new ideas and insights?
• What allows you to take inspired actions?
• What one thing specifically are you going to do today to implement a new idea or insight?

Why Does Your Business Need a Coach/Mentor

• Are you starting up a new business or are you in the preparatory stages of starting up a business?
• Who is there to help you develop it further?
• Ever had the feeling that you have become lost in your business?

Running a home base or small business is not easy. You have to make so many decisions. Marketing and advertising your business, training employees, paying the company bills and chasing outstanding debts, while still trying to get your name out there to the masses to use your product or service. It's easy to become lost. If you have that fantastic idea at two o clock in the morning, who is there to help you develop it further into a worthwhile idea?

Please contact me for a free 30-minute coaching session on a topic of your choice and without obligation.