Goals must be set in advance! Determine your direction accordingly.
When you consider setting goals in your business, you are much like the captain of a ship. You have the vast area of the sea of your life before you. You have the ship of your abilities, potentials and desires to carry you to your destination — your purpose or goal-target.
A captain considering a navigational chart knows there are many routes to his destination. It is his prerogative to choose which he will travel, then to plot the course, moving from port to port until his voyage is completed. Just as the captain charts his course to a planned destination, you also determine the direction of your life by the goals you choose.
Goals Should Be Realistic and Attainable
The difficulty of a goal is not a deterring factor as long as the goal is practical. Choose goals that are in the realm of attainability for YOU.
Goals Should Be Concrete and Measurable
The success of any expedition depends on the knowledge and provision of exact amounts of supplies, miles and method of travel and intermediate destinations along the route. These are definite, measurable substances that can be calculated and achieved while contemplating the overall magnitude of an extended journey into regions not travelled before.
You should actually be able to plan the methods of accomplishment in detail for the goals on your route, aiming toward a definite result. Then, in retrospect, you will be able to say, “This is what I did, this is how I did it.”
Goals Should Be Extended to Cover a Given Timetable.
The captain has predetermined his scheduled time of arrival at each port. In planning your goals, schedule a timetable for the completion of each one. This will keep you moving and prevent being “becalmed” by periods of inactivity.
A time schedule will help you use your time wisely and assure a proper time allotment to each “goal-sectioned” leg of your journey.
Goals Should Be Flexible
Whether we are sailing the ocean to a distant city or advancing on the thoroughfare of life, we are not always able to control the environment around us. Unforeseen winds and currents may cause turbulence and heavy seas that oppose our progress. Because our schedule has been temporarily thwarted, we should not give up in defeat and abandon our plans.
There are many routes that ultimately arrive at the same objective. If you cannot continue your journey on your present route, choose an alternate one! Flexible goals will enable you to always keep moving toward your goal-target.
Goals Should Be Set in Advance
There is no substitute for planning! The practice of “planning your work and then working your plan” is a proven theorem of action. Many people spend more time planning a vacation than they do planning their lives. Know your goal-target, plan each stage of your journey before you begin, and your reward will be continual progress and the satisfaction and elation of achievement.
Goals should be committed to the end result without looking back. Farmers know that they cannot “put their hand to the plough and look back” and plough a straight furrow. High wire performers know the only way to successfully complete their hazardous walk on the thin lifeline of their profession is to keep their eyes on their destination and not look back.
Whether the path you have chosen to your next goal is as precarious as that of a high wire performer or on the solid ground of a tiller of the soil, the criteria for successfully reaching your destination is to keep your feet moving forward on your mission and never lose sight of that which you are traveling toward. To achieve greatness, do not take your eyes off worthwhile goals.
In the daily currents of life as you move from goal to goal, remember always to practice the ‘do’s’ in life. “Don’ts” seems to present themselves in such a way that they are easier to find, and even more so, to practice! By drawing the full measure of meaning out of each positive element in your life you automatically eliminate the negative overpowering of the don’ts.
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Do I need A Business Coach?
When thinking about this, it’s important to know some real statistics first:
80% of businesses survive their first year. However, that percentage continues dropping as years go by. More precisely, 70% of companies survive their third year, while 50% survive their fifth year. A whopping 70% don’t pass the 10-year mark.
What are the top reasons businesses fail?
There are quite a few reasons why many new businesses fail. The most important ones include:
1. no product-market fit
2. Flawed business plans
3. Lack of financing
4. Bad location
5. Poor online presence and marketing skills6. Overpricing7. Growing competition.
In terms of numbers, how Big do businesses get?
Astonishingly, only 4.5% of UK businesses ever reach over £1million in Annual turnover.
So it’s safe to say the odds are well against you when you start your business, especially if you have big plans.
Looking at the stats. Finding someone who is a few years in front of you (that is proven to be successful) and can show you what to do next or at least intelligently advise you, I would say is rather critical.
Your own business skills likely need more development and the decisions you make early days will make or break you. As the statistics show, unfortunately, it breaks most people.
From my experience sometimes people just don’t listen to good advice and build false projections that are simply unrealistic and sometimes no matter how hard you try some people with little experience still think they know best, you see, a little knowledge is very dangerous and in business, it can take a while for bad decisions to catch up with you, and when they do they can end you.
Running a business is very different from doing the thing you were good at when you decided to start a business!
I have made some poor decisions over the years that have cost me dearly, this is part of being a risk-taking entrepreneur, luckily though I have pulled through each storm and I still have successful businesses under my control today that do very well. There are ups and downs and you need to be comfortable with that.
A calm sea never made a good sailer but without experience or intelligent guidance its easy to hit the rocks.
Being a professional business owner or entrepreneur is a life long skill you must work at hard to master, the quicker you master it the better chance you have to succeed but the learning never stops.
Mistakes can be fatal but good decisions can change yours and your families life for the better.
There will always be elements of risk but the reward will mirror the risk; small risk = small reward, big risk = big reward.
My journey has been bumpy and to this day remains challenging. Just when you think you know it all, the game changes. Your journey will be no different.
Over the years I have been influenced and advised by some fantastic people and without their guidance I would be nowhere right now. Sometimes these were people I knew, sometimes I had to pay to get amongst the right people, that’s just how it is.
Deciding to get a coach to help you through your business journey is a big decision but what sort of coaching you need will depend on where you are at right now, and where you want to end up.
Your success depends on making the right decisions that are acted upon at the right times, who you have around you, who you listen to and who you trust, will MATTER A LOT.
Take a look below at what’s on offer here at Aaron Dronsfield Coaching and if you think any of these approaches work for you right now, just get in touch.
Mentoring (programme duration 1-hour sessions booked as required)
Suitable for:
* New startups
* Developing a business mindset
* Transitioning from employment to starting a business
* Ideas brainstorming sessions
Cost £149+VAT per session
Kick start programme (programme duration 3-6 months)
Suitable for:
* Those who already have small business that needs organising and tidying up before it can grow further
Cost £399+VAT per month for 5 months
Entrepreneurs Marketing System (Programme duration 12+ months)
Suitable for:
* Businesses that are established but need help moving to the next level.
Cost £499+VAT per month
You can book a call in to discuss any of these packages herea