As a business owner, are you always doing the entrepreneurial time warp? <\/strong> You know, repeatedly jumping back and forth between your past and future, seldom operating in the present.<\/strong> Probably so.\u00a0 As a CPA and professional business coach<\/a> for over 25 years, I have witnessed up close how small business owners are fascinated with time travel, frequently visiting their PAST and their FUTURE, but neglecting their PRESENT. Are you a tortured time traveler as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n
As a personal growth coach<\/a> in the early 90’s, it was initially frustrating and challenging for me to get entrepreneurs to focus on the HERE AND NOW.<\/strong> In a blink, owners would jump into their personal time-travel machines and before I knew it, they were off traveling to the past.\u00a0 They would spend considerable time wallowing in their regrets, both business and personal, revisiting their old mistakes and failures, and\/or wishing for the good old days.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Because of my clients’ sabotaging pattern of “past regrets” and “future worries”, I worked hard on perfecting a business coaching and accountability process<\/a> that helped business owners learn from their past, properly plan for their future, but spend the vast majority of their time, energy and focus on the HERE AND NOW<\/strong><\/em>. The Growth Coach<\/a> strategic-focusing process was designed to help small business clients glance into the future but to proactively make decisions, create plans, and take actions TODAY.\u00a0 After all, when you are too busy time traveling, nothing gets accomplished in the here and now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Now, please don’t get this executive coach<\/a> wrong.\u00a0 I’m not saying don’t look into the future and don’t do proper planning.\u00a0 Far from that.<\/strong> As an owner or executive, you need to mentally jump forward on occasion in order to create a vision of where you want to go<\/strong>, both professionally and personally.\u00a0 You need to paint your ideal future.\u00a0 Once you have such a clear vision, you must reverse engineer a path back to the present so you can create a plan to help you actually reach that desired future.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Let me ask you a few business coaching questions.<\/p>\n
As an entrepreneur, you must learn to live and work in the PRESENT.<\/strong> The only real impact you can have is on the HERE AND NOW … you cannot change the past and you cannot impact the future no matter how much you fret and worry.\u00a0 The decisions you make today and the actions you take today more than anything else will shape your future.\u00a0 The PRESENT is a gift you have been given.<\/strong> What will you do with it?\u00a0 Will you enjoy it and make the most of it?\u00a0 Or will you squander the gift by focusing on yesterday or tomorrow and neglecting today?<\/em><\/p>\n
As a business coach, I suggest you learn to slow down on a regular basis, reflect and face reality, decide on big changes you want to make, put some short-term action plans together, and then take daily action.<\/strong> Let someone hold you accountable for taking massive daily action.\u00a0 In a nutshell, that\u2019s what The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise<\/a> system, does every 90 days for several thousand small business clients<\/a> \u2026 providing them with a strategic-focusing process and on-going accountability to help them go from where they are to where they truly want to be.<\/p>\n
Need some advice on being active and engaged in the PRESENT?\u00a0 We can help!<\/em> Talk with a Business Coach<\/strong><\/a> or order our FREE e-book, “Becoming a Strategic Business Owner”<\/strong><\/a>.
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