What are you doing to drive the success of your business? How many minutes or hours have you wasted sitting and staring at a monthly report hoping and wishing the bottom line was different? How can you get your business to be more profitable? How do you get your team fired up to look for the many opportunities that are just waiting to be taken advantage of? No, your phone will not magically ring with brand new customers calling nor will your e-mail box fill up by itself with business requests. What is the secret to success? If only you knew the secret that everyone else seems to know but you.
The Secret of 4 Obvious Choicesn
What are you doing to drive the success of your business? How many minutes or hours have you wasted sitting and staring at a monthly report hoping and wishing the bottom line was different? How can you get your business to be more profitable? How do you get your team fired up to look for the many opportunities that are just waiting to be taken advantage of? No, your phone will not magically ring with brand new customers calling nor will your e-mail box fill up by itself with business requests. What is the secret to success? If only you knew the secret that everyone else seems to know but you.
There is a risk in telling you the secret – the risk of exposing all those self-help writers out there who continue to make money by selling versions of what they believe the secret might be. These writers have painted success as a mystery and then conjured up some magical formula to satisfy the mystery – just like a magician. And, why should a magician reveal his secret when we all know it is just an illusion with the sole purpose of entertaining us? I will tell you the secret; but first, I have good news for you: You can get fired up right now and you can succeed. It’s your choice.
The power of choice is a wonderful gift we have all been blessed with. You can choose to be excited or not. You can choose to be proactive or not. You can wait for the phone to ring by itself or you can pick up the phone. You can either sit on your rear-end or you can get up and get going. (And, by the way, one of those 5-hour energy drinks is not the answer; you’ll get fired up all right, and then drop like a stone.) The choice is yours. Here are three options to help you choose:
1. Do nothing, just sit and wait. Nothing will happen, but you can blame me as I told you to do nothing.
2. Get up and leave. Go do something that has nothing to do with work. I’ll wait for you on the first tee.
3. Decide on the outcome and results you desire. Focus on what you expect and then commit to achieving today that which moves you closer to your vision. Ask yourself: What do I need to do different now to get the results I desire? And then just do it. It’s that simple and you’re the only one who can do it for you.
4. Did I mention there is a fourth option? There is. Shut up and fail. You’ll be broke, of course; but it is a valid choice. After all, isn’t that what you’ve been focusing on lately?
If there is a secret to success, here it is: You have now (and always have had) a choice. Choose action and you’ll succeed. Action is better, and will always outperform a wish list.
