Life is full of ups and downs, and it is how we respond that is key to overcoming challenges in business and within your life.
Here are 10 ways to overcome challenges in business.
Create a Plan
Write out a detailed description of what you want your business to look like including monthly turnover, yearly profit, types and personalities of staff members, incentive programs, particulars in terms of what you do and who you do work for?
When you have a detailed plan of what it is you want, create an image in your mind. When you plan a holiday, you create an image in your mind of you lying on the beach on a tropical island or trekking through the bush. Whatever you do in life, there is always an image, and we work with images. Create that image of what your plan is.
Adopt a Positive Mindset
Adopt a positive mindset if you have not already and know that you can overcome anything that life throws at you. As I have said many times before, what you think is what becomes your reality. Think worry, doubt, and fear, and worry doubt, and fear will always be present in your life. Become more aware of your surroundings, feelings, and triggers.
Never Give Up!
Never give up on your dreams and desires. It could be challenging at this particular moment but there is no reason to give up. Take a deep breath and continue.
Focus
Focus on the end results and live as if your wish is already fulfilled.
You have already made the decision to achieve, so believe.
Live, dress, walk and talk as your goal is already here and continue to focus on the end results. This will keep you in a higher vibration resulting in attracting to you what you truly desire.
Hire People with Positive Attitudes
We live in a fast-paced world where skills required are constantly changing. This makes it even more important to hire for attitude instead of just competency. Competence can be acquired, but the right attitude is priceless.
Attitude is the combination of thoughts, feelings and actions. Hire those with the passion for growth, desire to learn and will be good action takers.
Law of Cause and Effect
The law of cause and effect is what you put out is what you will get back in return.
The cause is being an action of some type. The effect is determined by the action. If you constantly give to others, like compliments, kind words, guidance, helping, you will receive what you give to others in equal forms back to you. If you give to others, anger, resentment, hate, jealously, you will get that back in return to its equal form.
If you are struggling, give support to others. You may not receive support from those who you have given to, but you will receive it some other way.
Make it a practice to help others daily. Not only will it make you feel amazing, but you will receive goodness back.
Rethink Your Marketing Strategies
These last few years, during the Covid-19 pandemic, have disrupted not only supply chains, but also how business owners maintain partnering relationships as well. As each company adapts to new customer expectations, it must change its business models and go-to-marketing strategies. Business partners had to reconsider everything from revenue sharing arrangements to changing joint go-to-marketing strategies in an effort to keep the customer experience the same or better.
Work Smarter, Not Harder.
Working longer hours and sitting up late at night does not solve problems. If anything, this just makes you dwell on the situation and continue to work harder.
Learn how to work less whilst earning more. You can achieve this by learning how powerful we are and how we can achieve more in life without doing the hard yards.
Learn more with my Thinking Into Results Program.
Change your perspective
Things always look different when you can take a step back, look at what is going on and change your perception of the situation.
For example, if you are the CEO of your business, change your position for a day to a representative of your business. If you are seeing things and feeling stuck, step back and come from another direction.
Whilst owning my arborist business, I would always spend some time on site with the crew to understand their position in the business.
Understand the power of your Mind
We are gifted with a mind and within our mind is a conscious and subconscious mind. The conscious mind is where we think, and we have the ability to accept your reject any idea we have. Our subconscious mind can only accept what we give it, and it is the home of our paradigms (our habits).
Our paradigms are what keep up stuck, therefore they refuse to allow us to achieve what we want until we decide to change them.
The good news is that you can change your paradigm.
Think big!
The more you think and dream of big goals the more you will grow as a person. Having a purpose every day creates the life you really want.
If you have thought about hiring a coach for business, please contact me. I am happy to have a coaching call with you and assist with your business, whether it be business start-up support or support with business issues you’re currently facing.
Shelley Langan – Live Life by Design
