You don’t have to make BIG changes in your business to be a HUGE success!

Does that shock you? It really shouldn’t, but don’t feel bad. Unfortunately most small business owners and entrepreneurs get fooled into believing it takes BIG improvements to make it BIG.

Take a closer look at the lives of the most successful business owners in the world. You’ll see how their current level of achievement is the result of a massive number of small, almost unperceivable actions and decisions consistently over time, not one-time dramatic events.

The “BIG change” business growth trap

Have you ever found yourself looking for some groundbreaking event to make a dramatic improvement in your business? I know I’ve fallen prey to that thinking at times. It’s the best way to get stuck in the status quo and to feel sorry for yourself. And, it’s the surest way to fall behind your competition too!

Running your business (or living your life) with this type of thinking is the sure way to live a life of “shoulds.” You know what I’m talking about.

“I know I should do ‘x’, but ‘y’ hasn’t happened yet.”
“I should do ‘this’, but I can’t without ‘that’.”

You keep it up and pretty soon you end up with more excuses, delays and justifications for not reaching your goals than you can shake a stick at. Before you know it you’ve got so many piles of “should” lying around that you can’t walk through your office without getting it stuck to your shoes. Before you know it you’ve “should” all over yourself and you’re a stinking mess.

I don’t want you to let it get to that point, it just makes for a real dirty job cleaning it all up. I know because I’ve been hardheaded enough to revisit that type of situation a few times in my 25+ years of entrepreneurial pursuits and business ownership.

There is a better way to business growth

It doesn’t involve really BIG improvements, it’s practical for the even the busiest business owner, and it’ easier that you might think.

Here’s a powerful principle that will revolutionize your approach to business growth. If you put this principle into practice I guarantee it will transform your business development and allow you to make what will end up being radical, yet lasting improvements in your company.

Instead of always trying to make something dramatic happen, concentrate your efforts on planning for, scheduling, and taking action on one small improvement in each one of the 12 key roots responsible for your business growth every month.

If you strive for the business improvements you want in incremental “bite-size” pieces you’ll make remarkable gains in as little as 90-days. Best of all, once you’ve seen what you’ve achieved, it’ll seem effortless. You can do this on your own, or really supercharge your business growth by involving your employee team.

It’s only common sense — right?

After all, think about it. If you’re not happy about something in your business or life right now, that’s how it got that way to begin with, right? Small actions (or in-actions) stacked one on top of another, day after day for years – minute after minute — intentionally or not, you are creating your own future.

It’s the smaller incremental changes you make on a consistent basis that determine where you’ll be a month, a year or a decade from now. If you dedicate yourself to improving just one small component of your business (or life) every month, you’ll rocket ahead of 94% of the population. That being true imagine what you could accomplish if you focused on boosting your performance in one targeted area per week!

In part 2 of this article I’ll show you a practical four-step process you can use to make it easy for you and your team to put small incremental improvements into action each and every week.

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John-Paul Micek
The Click-and-Mortar Business Coach
Business Owners Coaching Club

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