Don't let the past dictate your future business success

What Story Does Your Past Tell?

Failure can be a great teaching tool.  We see the results of people who have persevered in the face of failure after failure.  There’s another type of person that doesn’t get near as much face time in the public eye.  It’s the person who is controlled by the failures of their past. Your past doesn’t exist.    It’s no longer real.  The power that we let our past have on us is real.  At best, your past is a great teaching tool.  At worst, it’s a chain that bounds you from forward progress. Past failure is one of those areas that we try to control even though we can’t go back

Focus on the areas that you can control in your business

How To Stay Focused On What You Can Control In Your Business

Are you a victim or a victor?  In business it’s important to recognize when you are being a victim or a champion.  Business owners spend a lot of time worrying about things that are either not real or they worry about things they can’t control. Here’s how to stay focused on the things that you have control over. The first thing is to recognize what are the things that you do have control over.  When you know what those things are you can spend your time working on those things and not wasting time worrying about the rest. Mindset The first area that you have control over is your mindset. 

Taking action and doing work is never overrated.

Everything’s Overrated…Except For This

How many articles have you read where someone says something is overrated?  Leadership is overrated.  Talent is overrated.  Your sense of self worth is overrated.  Athletes are overrated.  I agree with every sentiment that has ever been written on something being overrated. I will tell you why in a minute.  What I don’t hear about being overrated is doing work. So back to my point about agreeing with every article that has called something overrated. Think about the amount of information that we are exposed to.  The depth and breadth of the information as well as the speed with which we get it almost guarantees that we are going to

How can you take action?

How Bad Do You Want It?

Taking action has been discovered to be, if not the ultimate, at least one of the top 5 principles for success.  Even though we know that taking action is the right call, we still don’t take the steps necessary to achieve the results we are looking for.  Today I want to dive into your mindset by asking the question: How bad do you want it? From a mindset standpoint there are three main culprits that inhibit our success.  Those inhibitors are fear, stories and complexity. Fear is the most recognizable for us because it is immediate and more tangible than other mindset issues.  We fear failure and in a peculiar