Shows there is no such thing as normal.
I love what I do and I find it interesting what I get involved with, last week for example I discussed plans for exit, current financing arrangements and how to reduce the cost of borrowing, I discussed payment processing, sales training to increase performance, I discussed ways to improve the management of great teams and not so great teams, and I helped develop a plan to attract the right talent into a business.
There is no normal in what I do and how I help and yet that is a fairly representative week for me. Typically, I spend my time helping Leaders uncover problems they were unaware of or were simply ignoring as unimportant, we get perspective and solve the ones that are actually holding the owner or the business, and it’s usually both of those things and then we get a solution in place that can be delivered.
The reason my clients work with me for years is that business is pretty much just a never-ending series of problems that need to be solved and fixed, and in fact one of the top reasons businesses do not move forward is that the owners think that they will solve that problem when.
What I mean buy that is they think, when I hire the right person, when I get an extra x number of customers, when I increase turnover by x amount, I will be able to tackle and then solve that problem. We should rename this the tyranny of when, because that is what it is a tyrannical mindset that will hold you back forever if you let it.
It’s the same with reality, people tell me all the time they are grounded in reality and after only a few questions it becomes apparent they are grounded in their perception of a reality they have created, that they believe to be true, and it often bears little to no resemblance to the actual reality of their own situation.
This is not a small business problem, it is a human problem, it explains the struggles of small businesses and those of the giants that fall, Comet, Woolworths and BHS to name a few, the world changed, and the leaders refused to be challenged on their perception of reality and the rest is as they say history.
This is the true value that I bring, it’s not because I am smarter, it’s not because I know more than the people I help, it is because I care enough about others success and personal growth that I am the unreasonable friend that won’t let my clients get away with deluding themselves about what it is they should be focusing on and how to make progress.
Maybe that is the true reason I love what I do so much, all of my clients become my friends, they are people I will stop at nothing to help them get the life they truly want.
That is my passion and that is one of the reasons I write these articles every week, in the hope it helps someone I haven’t had a chance to meet yet
By Andy Walter
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