Business Basics

Where are you now? What turnover and income? Is it enough?

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Where do you want to be?

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What are my goals? (simple, overview aims)

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Why am I doing this? What do I really want to achieve?

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And every journey has a destination, an end to aim for, so the next area we briefly look

at is where do you want to be?

Where do you want to be?

Okay, so now you’ve written a few thoughts on where you are now, let’s look at where do you want to be? We’ve got a ‘start’, so now let’s just see if we can loosely put an ‘end’ together. Where do you want to be? I know a lot of people have a very loose end goal. What do you have? Just a loose thought of what you’d like if it all ‘goes according to plan’? Or is it a precise and specific end point?

Well, as before, please just write down some thoughts on where you want to be.

Do you see yourself on a beach retired?

Do you see yourself owning a huge company but having a less active daily role?

Do you see yourself having sold out and not owning anything and starting another one?

Do you see yourself quitting this daily grind and actually then just doing what you really want to do which is have fun, play golf, fly aeroplanes, do whatever?

Do you have a hobby that you’d like to do, and work is a necessary evil at the moment? Do you see your business expanding nationally, internationally?

Where do you want to be?

(It perhaps isn’t easy to get your brain ‘muscle’ thinking beyond your usual daily thought level. You see, generally you will find that most day-to-day activity isn’t thought out. Most day-to-day activity you’ll get sucked along with what’s happening around you. And that’s given your brain a lazy get-through-the-day attitude. Your brain isn’t driving you, it’s just coping with what you’re doing. So when it comes to now driving forward, we are now having to think, and it doesn’t come naturally! You have an awesome computer between the ears…but it isn’t working at much of it’s capacity so let’s try hard here to stimulate it into overdrive. Train that muscle and it will soon become strong and fit as does any other physical muscle like your Bicep.)

And what does it mean – all this writing down where you’re at and where you want to be?

It means taking control and putting your brain into active gear, and then saying “no I don’t want that, I want this”. It means you stop drifting and start steering.

It means that as you develop these skills and re-train your ‘mind muscle’ you gain more and more control of your life and thus increase hugely the chances of getting what you want out of it. Don’t be lazy! Do not get swept along in an aimless drift!

It simple means that pushing, when it doesn’t come easy now, will directly impact what you get out of your life. It means it is worth it!