Are you a "know-it-all" or "learn-it-all" business owner? This simple distinction in mindsets will significantly predict your future as much as anything. The former mindset will yield stagnation, the later will bring you greater success, wealth, and fulfillment.
As a business coach for nearly 20 years, I can tell you with the utmost confidence that owners who have a "growth mindset" significantly outperform those who have a "status quo mindset". Which one do you want to be?
The great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden said it best, "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." How true, how true. But sadly, many owners think they know it all. Is it possible that your own level of arrogance, stubbornness, and know-it-all mindset are holding you and your business back? Are you "fixed" in your ways, beliefs, skills, knowledge and habits? If so, be warned...you are definitely holding your business back from greater results.
Sadly, many small business owners believe they have all the answers, don't need to listen to the ideas of others, have already "arrived", and have no need for personal growth and development. They stop reading, learning, and growing. Typically, they also reject any business coaching, peer group involvement, or best practices from outside their little world. Again, they are "fixed" and "inflexible". As a result, these type of owners and businesses stop growing...at best, they are stagnating, at worst they are losing ground. You are never too old to stop learning.
We business coaches so much believe in the critical importance of a "growth mindset" to business success that we named our business coaching franchise system with this in mind ...The Growth Coach. To us, a "growth mindset" is the key foundation to greater success and happiness. In fact, our primary focus is to help business owners, executives, managers, and self-employed professionals to GROW...grow their mindsets, knowledge, skills, and habits. After all, there is a little known but powerful secret...that a business will not grow unless the owner grows. An owner cannot grow if they have a "know-it-all", "fixed" or "status quo" mindset.
Again, do you have a "growth mindset" or a "status quo mindset"? The first one reflects that better days and results lie ahead. The second one reflects that your best days and results are behind you. Your choice. Again, this mindset distinction will greatly influence your future business success and personal fulfillment.
Can you change your mindsets? Absolutely. At The Growth Coach, we coach thousands of small business owners every year throughout North America and see the transformation up close and personal. Our proven coaching process helps them adopt more effective mindsets for greater success and personal fulfillment. But one must be open to change and admit that they can't possess all the answers. Are you ready to do that?
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Here's wishing you much growth and development. However, you need to take the first step.
Daniel M. Murphy
President, Founder & Business Coach
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System
Certified Business Coaches throughout North America