What’s the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Business This Year?

It’s the New Year! Woo-hoo! Yippee!

A fresh start to make a real difference. We all have great hopes and big plans – well sort of.

You may or may not make resolutions, but odds are if you do, you will not achieve them. Now I am not being a wet blanket here – just honest.

I ALSO WANT YOU TO KNOW IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY.

Part of the problem with those big hopes, dreams, plans, goals and resolutions is that they are wishy-washy, nebulous and “just kinda out there.” They feel like “wouldn’t it be nice if…” rather than “THIS WILL HAPPEN.”

Besides making your goals SMART (specific – measurable – attainable – relevant – time-bound), you have to get your mind right and then take action using good tools like AddressTwo.

I could write a book on getting your mindset and beliefs in order (there are LOTS of books out there already), but establishing your own library of John Maxwell books will be the fastest and easiest way to make it happen. Here’s a great one to get you started:

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by John C. Maxwell (HARDCOVER)

We all have hard heads when it comes to different things, and developing positive, productive and effective thinking takes years of work and practice – a lifetime! So, it’s never too early nor too late to work on that.

That being said, one of the most remarkable actions business owners can take for their personal development and professional success is to join a Mastermind Group. For the last two decades I have consistently participated in Mastermind Groups. It’s exciting and energizing and makes a real difference in each member and their business.

I facilitate avariety of coaching sessions including the Grow Your Business Mastermind Groups and each one is as powerful as the next for the members. The collaboration, sharing, honest feedback with differing ideas and perspectives, and accountability bring a whole new level of thought – and because of that, businesses shift to new, previously unrecognized, levels. Everyone and every business grows.

So, don’t think, “wouldn’t it be nice if…” when you set your goals this year. Be SMART when you set them, and then join a Mastermind Group to really bring those goals to fruition. That would be the best thing you could do for your business this year!

To Your Success,

 

                                                                    

Status Quo Requires No Leadership

It may seem saying, “Status Quo Requires No Leadership” is pretty radical, but when you really look at how the business environment is, and always has been, it’s not radical at all.

Some businesses feel that things are just fine, they are making enough to pay the bills, don’t have to work TOO hard and days go by relatively pleasantly. But is that what owning a business is all about? Is “just getting by” all you wanted when you made that first sale?

Just about every SBO I talk with wants MORE – more clients, more sales, more challenge, more profits more, more, more. Once they achieve one goal, they set another. It’s not all about money, although money is a measurement of where you are and where you want to go.

When you want more, as I see in my coaching and with participants in the Grow Your Business Masterminds, the inevitable is change. And if change is the password, learning is the key to the lock. The lock is held firmly in the hands of the leader.

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Not only does a leader have to help set direction, but also facilitate the path. The greatest leaders pull in all their resources to develop a plan to address all the changing conditions and ripples caused by shifting sands and new pebbles thrown into the mix. They have to constantly increase their knowledge base through both personal and professional development.

Remarkable leaders push and pull people through the status quo to bigger and brighter levels. Remarkable leaders also broaden the vision and inch the line forward regularly. They remove the status quo because the status quo is never the finish line. Leadership is what propels the change and growth.

Do you really want to maintain a status quo and an easy, non-leader position, or do you want more and to go further and build something remarkable?

Take a look at all the resources you have at your fingertips – coaches like me, tools like AddressTwo, other like-minded SBOs, social media, and your expertise and knowledge. You probably have everything you need to pull up your leadership socks, put on your track shoes and run a successful and growing business.

Take a few minutes to objectively look at where your business is flying and where you want it to fly. What change is necessary? What resources and tools do you have and need? What do you need to learn or discover? If you need help with this exercise, let me know. You can do it.

To Your Success, 

                                                                     

-Jack Klemeyer, (I pull on my red leadership socks every morning…)

AddressTwo Names WOOHOOing™ as an Authorized Partner Provider

AddressTwo announced today that WOOHOOing™, a Grand Rapids -area small business coaching firm, has signed an agreement to become an AddressTwo Authorized Partner Provider. The agreement will enable WOOHOOing™ to sell the AddressTwo CRM product as a part of its solution for customers, as well as make WOOHOOing’s expertise and services available to the growing number of AddressTwo users in the Grand Rapids area.

Read the Press Release: Here: http://www.pr.com/press-release/465915

Connect with the Team Here:  http://www.woohooing.com

What they can help AddressTwo users with: HERE