Your Business Attitude and Your Business Success

In my chapter of the bestselling book, Success Rituals 2.0, I wrote about how important it is to be passionate about your business in order for it to be successful.

Can you imagine working day in and day out on your own business and not loving what you do?  Well, it happened to me. I started my own business as a wealth coach because of some prompting from my coach at that time, and that is what I thought might work.  I put everything into it and was able to fill two group-coaching programs, but I was miserable; this is not what you want for your business. I started to not want to be on the calls with the group.  I woke up unhappy each day.  At that point, I thought, I might as well go get a job because at least I will get a steady paycheck!

If you aren’t feeling great about your business, it might be time to check in to see where that feeling and attitude is coming from.  It could be that the tasks you are doing just need a few tweaks.  Maybe you are doing something that you don’t love to do.  Ask yourself, if you let go of that one piece would that make things better for you?

Take inventory.  Write down all the things you are doing in your business and separate them into two columns.  Call one column ‘Love to do’, and the other ‘Hate to do.’ Then go for it.  It doesn’t matter what you write because you are the only one who will know what those two columns say.  You might also add a third column that says ‘Delegate.’

Once you have your list completed.  Decide what you want to let go of, what you want to keep and what you want to delegate.  If you don’t have the funds to hire someone to do those tasks that you want to delegate, then decide again if it should stay or go.  I would recommend that you put a wish list together that includes hiring an assistant soon!

If you find, like I did, that nothing in your business is working, you will need to go a bit further in this discovery process. 

Start the process of finding what you are passionate about.  A good way to start is to think about what jobs you had in the past that you really loved doing.  For me, it was technology, computer software and marketing.  These were past positions that I held, and I probably would have never left them if I wasn’t laid off. 

Once you know what you are passionate about, you will find that things just start to fall into place.  I have seen this time and time again with my clients and, of course, in my own business.  As soon as I was clear on what I wanted to do, my business took off. 

Now, I won’t say that you won’t have a bad day in your new business; that will always happen once in awhile.  But if you get up in the morning looking forward to your day, then you are blessed to have found your passion in your business, and the money will flow in because you love what you do.