{"id":1940,"date":"2011-07-21T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/greater-philadelphia\/business-growth-challenge-stop-the-madness-of-measuring-against-perfection"},"modified":"2011-07-21T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:58:02","slug":"business-growth-challenge-stop-the-madness-of-measuring-against-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/greater-philadelphia\/business-growth-challenge-stop-the-madness-of-measuring-against-perfection","title":{"rendered":"Business Growth Challenge – Stop the Madness of Measuring Against Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do we business owners<\/a> torture ourselves?\u00a0 Very often we measure our current results only against perfection (our ideal goals).\u00a0<\/strong> With that measuring stick, there will be lots of disappointment.\u00a0 More times than not, we will come up short and feel frustrated.<\/p>\n

Are we really that crazy?\u00a0 YES!\u00a0<\/strong> We seldom take time to enjoy the journey, gauge and celebrate our incredible progress.\u00a0 We tend to only look ahead to our big, audacious goals and not behind to see our progress, how far we have truly come.\u00a0 I am certainly guilty of this.\u00a0 Are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Case in point.<\/em>\u00a0 The Growth Coach<\/a>, a North American business coaching franchise<\/a> system, hit our 8th anniversary in May<\/strong> \u2026 the date when our first franchise owner, Tim Shepelak<\/a>, joined our system.\u00a0 Tim is still with us today, coaching hundreds of small business clients each year, doing great, and having a balanced and fulfilled life.\u00a0 I am proud of him and thrilled for his family. I hope they celebrated his 8th anniversary as a Growth Coach.<\/p>\n

For me, sadly, the 8th anniversary date pretty much came and went.\u00a0<\/strong> Like many entrepreneurs, I did not take the proper time to slow down, reflect, review our incredible progress, and truly celebrate our successful journey to date.<\/strong>\u00a0 Instead, in my head, I was already focusing on what needed to be done to take our business coaching franchise system to the next level by our 9th anniversary.<\/p>\n

I am somewhat ashamed to admit it but I failed to take note of our 8th year accomplishments:<\/strong><\/p>\n