Be Mindful of your Mind!
Huh? What exactly does that mean? How do you do that?
Let me start with a story… I met a few friends down in Naples, FL a couple of weeks back. Funny thing, they live only 45 minutes away in Toledo, but we had to go to Naples, 24 hours away, to meet up. Anyway, I digress. A friend of ours from this group has a very successful company related to the home improvement and construction industry. I asked him how his business was doing. Because of this you may think you know the answer to the question. After all, construction and Midwest in the same sentence hardly sounds like a winning formula these days. However, his answer may surprise you. He said, “Great, just as long as I turn off the news.” So what does not watching the news have to do with the success of his company? The answer lies in what 24/7 of bad news can do to your mental state of mind. If you are like most people, you probably watch the news, maybe a lot. As a result, you may have been sold into the idea that it is impossible to succeed in today’s business environment. I hear it all the time, but I also hear of many success stories like my Toledo friend who just cashed a seven digit check. Unfortunately, stories like his or like most of my clients don’t get broadcasted at 7am, just as you are psyching yourself up to saunter into the office to grind out another day. On the contrary to most news stories making the boob tube, I know several individ uals who are having their best year ever in business!
So, what’s the difference? Have a structure to manage their minds or what they choose to focus their attention on. So let’s commit ourselves to paying attention to only those things that serve our commitment to having a successful business. Because at the end of the day, specific news stories rarely have a direct impact on your business. Your business activities stay constant in a good economy or a poor one. You still need to block and tackle or, in other words, talk to people and meet with them.
Here are a few things to keep your conscious and focused attention on:
- Read a business book instead of vegging out in front of the television (I know, I’m not going to be popular with news stations this week).
- Seek out the business professionals who are doing well and ask them what they attribute their success to.
- Sit outside Costco, Ikea or Walmart. Why? Because you will actually see that there are still people out there living life. The economy is tough, but it certainly is nothing what the media is making it out to be.
- Spend your time on www.RevenueBlitz.com, going through the Free Coaching Program or watching the Motivational videos. A much more constructive use of your time.
- Finally, if you find you can’t do it alone, hire a coach! All of our coaches at Getting Results Coaching will help you keep your focused attention on what it should be on. Have someone help you keep your head on straight and doing the activities that a successful business requires.
After all, you have a choice, but please make it consciously. You can choose to be in the dying crowd of businesses, and they are out there, I’m not denying that. OR You can choose to be in the group of businesses that will succeed beyond this recession and when they do, they will be hugely successful because there will be a larger market to be had (think less competition, more clients and customers for you).
The choice is all yours – just choose consciously!
Written by Lauren Eichner is a top business coach of Financial Advisors and other relationship-based sales professionals. If you are looking to hire a business coach, complete this Personal Assessment.