{"id":1999,"date":"2010-06-24T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/poconos\/business-owners-need-to-stay-confident-to-win-the-game"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:13:50","slug":"business-owners-need-to-stay-confident-to-win-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/poconos\/business-owners-need-to-stay-confident-to-win-the-game","title":{"rendered":"Business Owners Need to Stay Confident to Win the\u00a0Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The older I get, the more I enjoy watching baseball at all levels\u2026youth, college, and professional.\u00a0 Not sure why that is.\u00a0 Maybe I simply appreciate the nuances and the difficulty of the game more, or that it demands both team and individual performances, or that it\u2019s a slower-paced game allowing players to face mental demons and coaches to strategize.\u00a0 Additionally, this wonderful sport gives me and my 11-year old boy (Murph) a true father-son connection as we toss in the backyard, as he pitches to me, and as I throw him batting practice.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, I love the game of baseball and the valuable lessons it can teach us all, especially business owners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Murph plays baseball on a Club Team during the summer months.\u00a0 They play 40-50 games a season, starting with in-door practice in January and ending with the last baseball tournament in early July.\u00a0 He loves playing the sport and most days he is very confident and gets good results.\u00a0 However, during such a long season, there are many ups and downs, hitting streaks and slumps, and winning streaks and losing ruts.\u00a0 Right now, several of the boys, including Murph, are going through a late-season hitting slump \u2026 they have lost their swagger at the plate.\u00a0 For the team\u2019s coaches, not only are they constantly teaching the kids the fundamentals, but just as important, helping the boys to believe in themselves and each other.\u00a0 Growing their confidence, especially during the challenging times, is essential to having team success.<\/p>\n

Baseball is a tough mental game and you need to have confidence in the batter’s box and in the field.\u00a0 Effective baseball coaches constantly need to pick up the young players’ spirits and confidence when they strike out, commit a fielding error, get thrown out stealing, or really struggle on the pitcher’s mound.\u00a0\u00a0The mental battles of baseball remind me of the mental battles of business ownership.<\/strong>\u00a0 As a business owner, can you relate to the ups and downs?<\/p>\n

To this business owner and business coach, business is a lot like baseball.\u00a0 Business can be tough, competitive, and\u00a0quite challenging to perform at a high level day in and day out<\/strong>.\u00a0 With any business, there are days\u00a0when an owner is mentally beat up, strikes out, commits an error,\u00a0loses the game.\u00a0 For\u00a0business owners, who picks up\u00a0their spirits and\u00a0confidence?\u00a0 In the past, it seldom happened \u2026owners had to grind it out and tough it out on their own.\u00a0 Fortunately today,\u00a0that has changed and\u00a0more and more entrepreneurs are turning to\u00a0business coaches like The Growth Coach<\/a> to help them gain clarity of direction, a focused game plan, on-going accountability, and just as important, a greater sense of hope and confidence \u2026 confidence in their business vision and\u00a0themselves<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Baseball coaches and business coaches are a lot alike – helping their players\/clients to believe in themselves and their abilities so they perform at peak levels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As business owners,\u00a0two of our greatest assets are our business vision and confidence<\/span>.\u00a0 We need to have a clear destination of where we want to take our business and confidence in ourselves and our team that we can get there.<\/strong>\u00a0 When we are confident, we have less doubt and make better decisions.\u00a0 Therefore, it\u2019s our utmost responsibility to\u00a0guard our vision and protect our confidence<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Growth Coach clearly understands this and our coaching process<\/a> supports this critical confidence factor.\u00a0 Are you guarding your vision and protecting your confidence?\u00a0 If not, why not?<\/p>\n

We owners cannot afford to lose our confidence, no matter how rough and tough things get.\u00a0 Regardless of external factors (economy, competition, credit markets, politics, mother nature, etc.), we need to hold tight to and believe in our\u00a0vision and not let the daily hassles, headaches, and strike-outs\u00a0erode\u00a0our confidence<\/strong>.\u00a0 We can\u2019t afford to get into a batter\u2019s slump and stay there.\u00a0 As entrepreneurs, though we all feel vulnerable, isolated, overwhelmed, lonely and even a bit lost at times, we cannot afford to lose our confidence and swagger.\u00a0 We need to stay strong, positive and productive.<\/p>\n

You know well that being a business owner can feel like a long,\u00a0grueling, unforgiving\u00a0season at times.\u00a0 Some days you strike out, other days you hit a grand slam.\u00a0 Some days you win, some you lose.\u00a0\u00a0Regardless, don’t try to carry the entire weight of the company on your shoulders.\u00a0\u00a0Don’t try to be a super hero, lone ranger or tough it out in silence.\u00a0 That\u2019s an exhausting way to run a business and lead a life.\u00a0 To maintain your confidence, seek out the help of a business coach<\/a>, educational and motivational CDs, books<\/a>, or business owner support groups.\u00a0 Protecting your confidence\u00a0is imperative \u2026 all of your other abilities, talents and skills depend upon YOU staying confident. \u00a0Play ball and remain confident!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The older I get, the more I enjoy watching baseball at all levels\u2026youth, college, and professional.\u00a0 Not sure why that is.\u00a0 Maybe I simply appreciate the nuances and the difficulty of the game more, or that it demands both team and individual performances, or that it\u2019s a slower-paced game allowing players to face mental demons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[857,876,858,861,863,897,864,865,867],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-coaching","tag-business-coach","tag-business-coaching","tag-business-owner","tag-business-systems","tag-entrepreneur","tag-growth-coach","tag-leadership","tag-small-business-management","tag-strategic-mindset"],"yoast_head":"\nBusiness Owners Need to Stay Confident to Win the\u00a0Game - 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