How do you feel about the future direction of your business?
Business owners tend to look to the future with either:
- Excitement
- Apprehension
If we are putting plans together today, which are designed to make a better tomorrow, then we look to the future with excitement.
If we are repeating errors that have failed us in the past, we look to the future with apprehension.
Everything was finished, before it was started
As you look around right now, everything you see started off as an idea. The idea was then researched, refined and perfected. Only after something is finished in the mind of it’s creator, does the process of making it tangible begin. Long before there was anything real to show, the mind had already clearly envisioned the finished product.
The thoughts and feelings we focus on today, build our future in a very similar way. The person looking to the future with apprehension has good reason to do so; unless they improve the quality of their thoughts and actions. They need better ideas followed up with intelligent actions, if they want to achieve more tomorrow than their past efforts have given them today.
I see this every day, working with my clients as a marketing mentor. People come to me, because they know they need a clear, professionally developed strategy to work from and someone they can work with, who can show them what to do. Others read this blog, living where they don’t want to live, working with clients who undervalue them and having to lower their lifestyle expectations to meet their under-performing income – Yet elect to do nothing.
Just as our past ideas and actions have brought us to where we are today, our ideas and actions today will determine where we end up. If you can see the kind of confidence-inspiring progress that your hard work deserves today – Keep doing what you are doing. If you are frustrated right now and apprehensive about where your current route is taking you, get yourself a better plan.