The world of a business owner can get pretty cloudy, confusing, and complex in less than a year or two.  Initially, the business is usually small enough so that the owner can handle most of the transactions and challenges and feel in control.  Unfortunately, most owners get trapped in the technical trenches of their business and never evolve to higher levels of leadership. 

As the business grows, so does the level of complexity and the number of customers, transactions, employees, issues and headaches.  With few systems in place, the business outgrows the owner.  In time, the owner feels less and less in control and more and more tired, lost and confused.  In frustration, the owner can turn away from the basics and desperately search for more complicated and expensive solutions.  Sadly, the owner forgets what they did early on in their entrepreneurial career to get results.  They lose their way.

What they did and you did early on was to get clear on what you wanted, set goals, take action, and produce results.  Not very complicated, but highly effective.  As your business coach, I thought I would dedicate this business coaching blog to a simple success formula we all have used but may have forgotten. It's a back to the basics formula.  Be sure to share this with your managers and employees.

Below is a proven six-step path to achieving greater wealth, health, and happiness.  In fact, this path, if strictly followed, can help you achieve any result you want in your business or personal life.  You can have, do and become whatever you want.  While this formula is simple, it's not easy.  You must engage your head and heart and then take intelligent and massive action. 

Just like in your early years in business, you must once again get clear about what you want, get excited about what you want, and then get moving toward what you want.  You don't need much ... just clarity, excitement and action.  Here are 6 simple steps to greater success and satisfaction in your life:

1. Get crystal clear on what you want in your professional and personal life.  Most ordinary folks never do this and that's why they never achieve breakthrough results.  Write down exactly what you want to have, be and do. (Some people struggle with this. To help, think about what you don't want and then write down the opposite.)

2. Get rid of negative or limiting beliefs.  Write down what the "critic in your head" is saying about you and your desires and throw that junk away.  You are not that person. That critic is simply your fears trying to stop you from getting out of your comfort zone.  However, to increase your wealth zone, you must enlarge your comfort zone.  You must believe you deserve a better professional and personal life.  Stop making excuses.  Tasting success ahead of time and taking action, as discussed below, will help you overcome these fears.

3. Get excited.  On a daily basis (morning, noon and night), concentrate on what it would really feel like to already have, do or be what you wrote down in step #1.  See the coming attractions in vivid colors.  Get excited.  Surround your goals with your positive emotions.  It will be your vision and feelings that fuel your actions.

4. Get a simple plan on paper to pursue your goals.  Don't worry about mapping out all the steps, just some of the initial ones. You don't need to have all the answers to begin.  Just get going.  Don't get caught up in the overwhelming details of "how" you are going to achieve something; focus on the "why" you want it and then just get started.  You will learn what you need as you go.  In moving forward, the answers and next steps will be revealed.

5. Get moving.  Take massive action on what you want.  Focus on your goals every day and take some type of action every day.  Follow your game plan and keep visualizing that you've already achieved your goals.  Through action, you will create momentum, and with momentum you will achieve results.

6. Get feedback.  On a weekly basis, look objectively at your results.  If things are not working, it's not failure - it's simply valuable feedback.  Adjust your actions to get different results.  Then continue to take massive action and learn and adjust as you go.

Hope this business coaching session helps you and your team get back to the basics.

Daniel M. Murphy
President, Founder & Business Coach
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System