If you have some BIG challenges facing you right now, this post is written JUST for you!
In my experience, most business owners greatly underestimate their ability to make things happen; to turn things around and create a big, positive impact. They see some of the challenges facing their business or their life in general, and use their imagination to visualise all the worst case scenarios, instead of using it to find effective answers.
You are capable of amazing things!
Here’s what I believe: A business problem can only beat you, if you allow it to.
That’s because you have within you, the basic tools required to either solve a problem yourself, or to find someone who already has the answers you need. When you look at the various challenges facing you right now, using that answer-focused mindset, it’s interesting how much more resourceful you feel and become.
The late Anita Roddick once said;
“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
Whatever you have facing you right now, start focusing your resources on the answer. If you invest enough time researching the answer or finding the people with the answers you need, you will have those challenges whipped in no time.
Have you used a similar approach to get the answers you need?
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Fantastic quote there from Anita Roddick, Jim.
Ya know what though, I like yours just as much “A business problem can only beat you, if you allow it to.”
Love it.
Thanks Jake – She was a very savvy, inspirational lade.
Glad you liked my quote too. An honour to be mentioned in the same comment as such a great person.
A wise man recently suggested I test different copy on our website and measure the results on Google Analytics. To do this really well I am now going to learn as much as I can about Google Analytics first so I know what it is telling me in detail before I go wild with copy changes.
Measure, measure, measure!
Thanks for the comment Sue. I hope it works for you!
I was just freaking out the other day about whether or not I’ll be able to keep my business up and make it self-sustainable by the time I leave for college. While the teenage part of me started freaking out, the business person said, “I guess we’ll just have to work harder and stop spending money developing dead ideas.”
Focus and confidence is an important part of success. Like trying to master a trumpet solo two days before a performance (Thank you chorus director…thrown under the bus) or trying to learn a marching show in time for competition.
Sometimes you have to put worrying aside. Freak out after the boulder passes, haha.
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Nice Post Jim
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