“You alone have the responsibility to shape your life. Once you understand this, nothing and no one can deny you success. There’s no one to stop you but yourself.” –Unknown
You are 100% responsible. The good, bad and ugly of your business and your life is what it is and how it is because of you. For your business and life to change and improve, you must change and improve. You must change beliefs to change your behavior. You must re-engineer your mindset and escape old habits. You must create and/or change your strategies and actions.
It is a stunning fact that most business leaders have not defined the true results that they want to achieve in life both professionally and personally. Most don’t know where they’re going, let alone where they currently are. We need to provide ourselves some clarity in life. Where are you going? Where are you starting from? How are you going to get there? What’s your vision for each of your vital areas in life.
The most common theme that I hear from my Growth Coach clients is “I don’t feel like I have balance in my life at all and I often feel incomplete.” Former Coca Cola CEO, Brian Dyson once said the following: “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends, and spirit – and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four balls – family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.
You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
Pace: Don’t run through life so fast that you forget where you are and where you’re going.
- Discipline: Force yourself to take time; ask family and mentors etc. to help you to clearly define the results that you must accomplish for each part of your life.
- Plan: Look at each of your vital balls and pick all the things that you will do to make a positive impact in each ball each week. Then pick from the weekly list to plan each day.
- Courage: If you don’t try hard to separate yourself from the crowd, you simply are the crowd.
- Respect: Appreciation is one of our greatest emotional needs. Share it every day.
- Fun: You need to allow yourself to have fun so you can gain even more clarity.
- Loyalty: To your Faith, Family, Friends, Health and everything else.
No one can stop you but yourself.
Note what Growth Coach client Paul Ten Haken shared about balance, accountability and goals.
