As a business coach and leader of The Growth Coach, I am always reading, listening to CDs, and searching for strategies to help our business coaches and small business clients become more effective and satisfied as business owners.  That is what we do at The Growth Coach.  I just came across one of my favorite quotes once again.  It's from Earl Nightingale, the father of personal development.  He said, "You become what you think about."  Let's repeat that.  You become what you think about.  If that's true, which I do believe with my whole heart, than as a business owner, you MUST be very careful about what you think about on daily basis.  Your success and happiness depends on it!

As your virtual business coach, please stop and really examine this important statement...you become what you think about.  You will discover that it truly dictates your level of success, wealth and happiness in business and life.  Why?  Because your dominant thoughts generate your feelings and your feelings generate your actions (or lack thereof).  In turn, your actions generate your results.  Notice, everything starts with your thoughts.  Want to attract better professional and personal results?  Adopt better thoughts. 

As an entrepreneur, your success or lack of success can be traced back to what you habitually think about.  Your thoughts begin the "chain of events" every time, whether you are consciously aware of them or not.  With this Growth Coach blog, the goal is to simply make you more aware of your recurring thoughts and the CONSEQUENCES of those thoughts.

Put simply, what you think about (good or bad) eventually comes about.  Whatever you focus on, positive or negative, expands in your business or life.  Wherever your attention goes, results will flow.  So my fellow entrepreneur, please be careful.  Your mind is like a powerful magnet.  Think negative thoughts and that is what you will attract...negative outcomes.  Think positive thoughts and back them up with right actions and you will reap positive outcomes.  Again, you become what you think about and what you act on.

As your personal Growth Coach, let me ask you some questions: On a daily basis, what are YOU thinking about? Success or failure?  Solutions or problems?  Goals or obstacles?  Opportunities or risks?  Your blessings or your challenges?  What's working in your business or what's not?  Thinking about today or yesterday?  Plain and simple, the focus of your dominant thoughts will determine your results.

To reap better results, a few times each day, please pause and become aware of your thinking... the internal dialogue that's occurring in your head.  Don't deny it.  Everyone engages in self-talk.  They real question is not IF you do it but whether your self-talk is positive or negative.  Does your daily thinking move you closer to your goals or farther away?  Does your habitual thinking support or sabotage your success?  If you are like most business owners, you probably aren't sure.  You are not fully aware of your thinking and self-talk.  

There is hope. How?  Listen carefully to the words that come out of your mouth on a regular basis.  Your words reveal what you are thinking.  Are you regularly complaining, making excuses, blaming others, and/or justifying why things are not working out?  If so, that's all negative and victim thinking coming out in your words.  As business coaches, we always listen to the words our clients speak.  If they are stuck in negative ruts, we help interrupt that unhealthy mental pattern.

There's another easy way on your own to become more aware of your habitual thinking.  Simply follow your emotions!  That's right, your emotions reveal your thinking patterns.  When your thinking is positive and supportive, you have positive and pleasant emotions (happiness).  When your thinking is negative and destructive, so are the emotions you will feel (unhappiness). 

Your emotions function as your internal warning system.  The next time you feel a negative emotion, ask yourself, "What's the negative thinking taking place?" "What am I afraid of?" "What is bothering me?" "What am I focusing on?" Armed with that valuable insight, you are now free to select your focal point.  You are no longer simply reacting to habitual thoughts. Simply becoming aware of your thinking (using your emotions or external words as a guide) will help you correct course.  Once aware, you will be able to re-direct your thinking toward goals, success, solutions, blessings, and opportunities.  In the end, only you can control your thoughts and determine your destiny.  If you want better results, choose better thoughts. 

Everything we do at The Growth Coach is to help clients improve their entrepreneurial mindset, thoughts, and habits.  All of our business coaching services address the reality that, you become what you think about.  

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Daniel M. Murphy
President, Founder, Business Coach
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System
Certified Business Coaches throughout North America