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Six Breakthrough Strategies for Your Business
by Gary Lockwood
Wealth.... Quality of Life.... Satisfaction... Fun....
Many of the business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals that
I coach have come to me because of that feeling that "there must be
more than this".
If you're having these feelings, join the club. A gap exists between
expectations and the reality of the workplace today. While business
people generally expect they will take more time off and worry less
about money as their business grows, they currently work long
hours, spend little time with family and suffer from dangerously
high levels of stress.
In my twelve years of coaching and training, I've observed how
successful business people "break through" existing boundaries
and move their business and their lives to a higher level. I have
identified six aspects of the enterprise where it's possible to
achieve these breakthroughs.
These Six Breakthrough Strategies are:
1) STRATEGIC VISION SYSTEM:
This is the process of surfacing and clarifying the areas of
significance to you and your business. Establish meaningful
goals in each of these areas. This assures that you stay focused
on the outcomes you desire.
For this breakthrough strategy, identify the 8 or 10 key areas that
are important and essential for your business and your personal
life - cash flow, customers, employees, family, friends, spiritual
growth, health and so on. Write them down.
Describe as best you can, in writing, what it looks like and what
it feels like when you have reached the point in each of your key
result areas where you are happy with each. This represents a
picture of your future as you prefer it to be.
With clear purpose and direction, your efforts will be laser-
focused on the results you want.
2) TACTICAL ACTION SYSTEM:
These processes ensure that your actions and decisions are
aligned with your values and vision. Set critical milestones,
success yardsticks and key tracking indicators so you will achieve
your goals faster and easier.
To be goal directed, we need goals. Picture yourself on
December 31 reflecting on the significant accomplishments of
the year. What will have had to happen to make you happy with
your progress?
3) QUALITY OF LIFE SYSTEM:
In our high-demand, knowledge-based economy, issues such as
free time, happiness, satisfaction and peace of mind are not just
nice-to-have. These things are crucial to your ability to operate
an enterprise at peak effectiveness.
Getting and keeping a superlative quality of life is best done
systematically, not just when convenient. By consciously
attending to the balance in your life, you can create a rich quality
of life most people only dream of ever having.
4) LEVERAGING SYSTEM:
Here, you will regularly examine the results you get from the
investment of your time and money. Leverage to produce high-
impact results is attained through support people, automation,
outside specialists, smart delegation and shrewdly managed
priorities. Many entrepreneurs are still operating under the
mistaken belief that results are in direct proportion to how
hard they work.
You've heard of the 80/20 rule -- 20 percent of all activities will
produce 80 percent of the meaningful results. What are the handful
of activities that produce the results that you want?
Remember, you are rewarded only for results.
5) STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS:
Inevitably, the largest share of your income flows from a relatively
small number of key economic relationships, generally your top
clients and referral sources. Identify these special relationships
that require nurturing and create action plans around retention
and developing maximum potential from each.
In too many cases, entrepreneurs focus on current transactions
rather than relationships that will sustain and grow the business
over the long run.
6) LEARNING AND CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT:
When you are proactive about learning and improving instead of
just letting it happen, you accelerate your capabilities, expand
insight and experience startling advances in your thinking.
Set aside time daily to consciously learn from your experiences.
You will discover a little-known secret that will put you on a course
to life-long, continuous learning and improvement.
Bottom line.... these Breakthrough Strategies provide a practical,
systematic way to achieve remarkable results.
What can you expect to get out of using these Strategies? The most
common results for entrepreneurs include:
* significant increase in income
* a more satisfying lifestyle and workstyle
* peace of mind and increased confidence in your ability to
accomplish your goals even faster and easier.
Regular attention to the six Breakthrough Strategies helps
satisfy our basic desire for endless growth.
Special Note:
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About the Author...
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