Take a Chance...

Don’t worry, this isn’t a tribute to Abba...

Every year on 23rd April, Take a Chance Day encourages us to break out of our comfort zone.

It shouldn’t take a National Day once a year to do this, but it’s a timely reminder to address any unaccomplished goals or dreams.  

And the reason why so many business owners are failing at achieving their goals and dreams is because they’re so bogged down in the day-to-day that they’ve lost sight of them, or simply because they never set them out in the first place.

Regardless of however long you’ve been in business for, and whatever industry you’re in, you must be able to answer these two questions:

1. What do you want out of your business and life?

2. What are you prepared to do, to get it?

Only until you have answered these, can you then work out what Numbers you need to deliver in your business, and what Path you need to take to deliver these Numbers.

Not only will this help you realise your longer-term dreams and goals, but in the short term will help you go from:

• A business running you, to YOU running your business...

• Living Groundhog Day every day, to seeing progression...

• Everything relying on you, to shared responsibility...

• Not adequately feeding yourself to a Path for a business to a lifestyle...

• And little to complete confidence.

My final thought is that the sooner you become comfortable with the uncomfortable, the easier the process (and journey) becomes.

BW,

Martin

Martin Norbury

Investor | Business Mentor at Advocate | Author of I don’t work Fridays