Recently I read Tammy Hawk-Bridges book Yanking Bootstraps – a great little resource on how to bootstrap your business to success. This small book is full of ideas and insights from someone who honestly shares how to establish and run a small business. Owning your own small business or practice, or working within a corporation, requires perseverance and persistence.
There are some mornings you might find it hard to get up and go to work, to call a new client and ask for business or maybe send another proposal out… however many of you are called to do what you do. You have been blessed with a gift, a talent; expertise that that world needs to hear.
When working with thought leaders we challenge each person who does the Sell Your Thought Program or works 1:1 with me in thought leadership mentoring to ‘do what you love, with people you love, in places you love’. Are you doing what you love on a daily basis?
Tammy made some great points in her book and the three we think are vitally important for anyone either running their own practice or working with someone else include:
Take care of yourself – in the busyness of driving towards goal achievement, and managing the day to day – it is easy to make ourselves a lower priority than our work – this is a bad choice. We need incredible stamina to achieve a productive day.
Get a coach – if you want increased accountability, to save money and to save time – a coach will help you with this. Regardless of where you are in your career or your own practice a coach is a vital part of your team for success.
Learn to sell – you are either selling yourself and talents in corporate or selling yourself and your services in your own practice… either way… it is still selling. You must believe you are doing an amazing thing by providing a product or service that is going to fill a need or solve a challenge for someone.
As you approach a new day, a new week – can you decide to yank yourself up by your bootstraps, dust yourself off and make the choice that this week you will have an even greater impact on those around you? Now that’s productive!
What are your ideas on how you can be even more impactful this week? Share your ideas with us here on our blog.
PS. If you want more ideas on how to increase your productivity – check out other blogs here and several eBooks you can share with your team.
