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Issue 00478 |
July 21 - 27, 2007 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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Breaking Barriers |
Improve Your Personal
by George ‘GBENGA OLOWOYE
GEORGE, an
executive business Coach, author and speaker lives in Arusha. Make your next
conference, We shall in this piece try to loot at practical and intelligent ways to help you multiply your total human capacities in reaching even higher growth in your life and business. At the same time, we shall explore how you can muster all the strengths available to you - intellectual, emotional, interpersonal, leadership, and productive capacities - to achieve desired business prosperity. The major component of the matter is for you to understand the vision you set out to accomplish with your business. What will help you to do that and stay on course? If you're serious about growing your business, take the time to write out a description of how your business will look in 5 or 10 years. Some other serious questions you might ask will include: Where will the business be located? How big will the office or building be? How many customers will you have? Where will they come from? How many employees will you have? What will their roles be? And what will your role be? What kind of desk will you be sitting at? etc The more details you can put in about how your business will look and work in the future, the more real it will become, and the more likely you'll be able empowered to live your dream. Several studies have revealed that for most businesses and endeavors to succeed, the competencies and efficiencies of the man or woman behind the operations must be optimal and above average. Some people call it personal entrepreneurial competencies while others refer to it as personal business efficiencies. However you will identify with it, you must make it your own before you and your business will succeed. Undoubtedly, this follows the Pareto Principle, which states that most of the results we often get in life and in any situation are determined by a small number of causes. That is, you can focus and use your personal entrepreneurial competencies to make big changes in your life and business. It is also called the 80/20 Rue. It really doesn’t matter what numbers you apply, the important thing to understand is that in your life there are certain activities you do (your 20 percent) that account for the majority (your 80 percent) of your happiness and outputs. You may have expected me to say that 20 percent of your activities produce 80 percent of your financial rewards, and that is true; there are probably a handful of activities you do each week that produce your income. You can definitely apply the 80/20 Rule to most aspects of your business or working life, however I believe your overall happiness and satisfaction are much better variables to focus on. Money certainly plays an important role in your happiness and your money is influenced by 80/20 relationships, but it is only a component that leads to your overall well being, which should be your primary concern. This brings us to the issue of deliberate success and improving your Personal Business Efficiency. Take a brief outlook of the 4Ds of deliberate success: Deliberate success, in business and in life, starts with a Dream. What is the dream your business is set to accomplish? Next, you need to Decide that this dream is important enough to pursue. After that, you must Develop the action plans that will get you from where you are now to where you want to be. The final step, Deliver, requires that you have the courage to act on your plan. My challenge to you here is that those who achieve Deliberate Success punch trough barrier after barrier. Second string people, on the other hand, seem to seek security at the key choice points and merely retreat to that which is familiar to them. They ultimately repeat the same patterns of behavior that keep them in a perpetual “Stuck State Cycle.” You, however, recognize that commitment to a dream, coupled with the courage to act, results in Deliberate Success. You become what can be referred to as a “Personal Delivery System” to manifest your dream. Anthony Robbins says
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