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Owning a Business Is Great THERAPY
Over the last few years I’ve learned more about myself than ever before. It’s all because I had to.
Business and Personal Development
When I started my business I had no idea there was a connection to personal development and business success. Yea sure, I heard ‘you have to work on yourself to be successful’ but I figured it didn’t apply to me, I thought ‘there’s nothing wrong with me‘.
The more years I worked on my business and came upon the same barriers time and time again I started to wonder if I *might* be the source of the problem rather than everyone and everything else.
I mean….
how many times can you get yourself into big time credit card debt and blame business expenses?
how many times can you work with clients that really don’t fit and blame it on the clients not knowing what they want?
how many times can you switch businesses while blaming it on the business just not being the right one?
Just a few little personal judgement calls I made that ended up bitting me again and again.
Looking to Personal Responsibility
Until I finally started looking DEEP at ME, nothing changed. NOTHING.
Sure, I could have kept blaming but it wouldn’t have helped.
Business is a true reflection of who you are as a person.
Everyone makes a unique series of choices that gets them to where they are in business. Those choices come from our character traits (and flaws), they come from our personality, from our strength (or weaknesses) and they are a reflection of all we know and feel.
The stronger I become, the stronger my business becomes in turn.
Instead of talking all this fluff let me give you a solid example and get a little personal here with my own character trait.
For a large portion of my life I have looked to others for approval. I have been a ‘people pleaser’. I was known in highschool to often say ‘can’t we all just get along?’.
I detested, ran from and avoided conflict at all costs. In business this allowed me to be weak and get walked on. I took on clients who were unrealistically demanding, lacking respect for the great work I did and uncaring of how or when I actually found time to sleep and recharge.
For a while I blamed it on the industry, on the clients and on the people who told others they could find a $4 an hour virtual assistant anywhere.
Learning to Say NO in Business
Then I worked on myself. I realized if I didn’t have a serious amount of confidence in my abilities and in myself no one else would. I started to value myself and build my confidence. I started to realize that my value comes from nowhere but within and then when I have that control no one can take it away.
Now I work with awesome clients who are happy to give me proper notice (most of the time), who regularly thank me for my super service and who respect the work I do as something that’s taken years of practice to develop.
The whole point to my little rant here today?
Well – business is like therapy. If you’re having trouble in your business right now stop looking outside and blaming anything or anyone. Start looking at what YOU can do, at what YOU can control.
Can you guess what that is? It’s YOU!
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