It should go without saying but at the core of both personal and business growth are authentic relationships. As human beings we are communal in nature. We seek and need interaction with other people. There may be the occasional loaner type person you come across but even in their desire to seek solitude they are dependent on some interactions with other people. The key here is that when we seek relationships, they are rooted in trust and are genuinely authentic.
In this time in history where so many people are self-absorbed, we need to pause and take time to gather real insights into ourselves. We need to then determine how we can use these key understandings to make ourselves more available to others so to better those around us as well as ourselves. Take being self-absorbed and radiate it out to help others be more than they currently are.
6 months have flown by and now we are into the dog days of summer. In the northern part of the country the mind set shifts a bit to vacation mode, kids being out of school, etc. The weather is one that invites us to spend some time outdoors gathering up the vitamin D from the sunshine we miss during other parts of the year. Our businesses migrate into covering shifts for missing staff. Our customers might also shift their expectations, wanting things even more timely on their schedule than on ours so they can use the extra time to go out and have fun.
In our prior Guidepost we covered the matter of growth from failure and how it can either enhance your future success or curtail it drastically. It is not easy to deal with failure or setbacks or even day-to-day business challenges. It seems like all leaders do is deal with the issues rather than working on growing the business.
On this special day, take a moment to remember a key person in your life that has continuously influenced the person you are and growing into. I honor my father for giving fully of himself to our family in ways which I never truly appreciated until later in life. His commitment to silently and patiently being present in all situations is profound in many aspects of my life.
Let’s be honest, no one sets out to fail. In fact, many of us build very strong fences around this area of failure so that we can withstand the storm of setbacks. We spend lots of time, energy and dollars doing everything we can to avoid failures. Even to the point where the sunk cost on a situation would be better to walk away but our ego kicks in and we spend more…
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Growth is not without challenges and in some cases failure. Depending on what you do with the failure determines if you will learn from it and grow or dismiss it and stay stagnant. We always have a greater opportunity to learn from our failures than from our successes.
The saying – Nothing happens until the sale happens – is true today and will always be true when a transfer of goods or services are part of the transaction. To cause sales to happen, businesses take any number of approaches. Marketing and sales work hand in hand to cause brand exposure in the marketplace so that when a buyer has a need, the organization is top of mind to that buyer.
A routine or discipline can be formed to either enhance a situation or be destructive toward it. When seeking self-development growth, building discipline will support more dramatic growth. If the routine is contrary to the outcome, then it invades the situation and causes significant impact to progress and results.
