The failures and successes of your business are often due to perspective. Short-term failures can result in long-term achievement, while quick wins can lead to future losses. By changing your business perspective, you can turn a seemingly obvious failure into a glowing success – you can also accomplish the opposite as well!
Shifting your business mindset can help you to understand situations better and avoid false views. But to change perspective is often easier said than done. It is crucial to the success of your business (and often yourself) that you gain and maintain the right perspective that ensures you’re making the best decisions. Before you change your perspective, you need to identify what is holding your business success back.
1. Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Think of your business successes as one would think of running a marathon. It is an excruciating race, yet each person finishes the race in the same way, one step at a time. Unlike a sprint – where every step and second is significant – a marathon allows people to stumble, slowdown and completely stop for breath. Push your business forward and towards that finish line step-by-step.
2. Learn from Your Failures
You will learn more from failure than from success. You need to learn how to turn your business’ failures into the foundation of growth. Accept your business’ limitation and aim to exceed them. Comfort is the enemy of achievement. Failure is just an isolated event in your journey to flourish. Remain calm and you’ll be more likely to make the best long-term decisions.
3. Stop Living in the Past
Learn to let things go. Short-term failure happens to the best of organisations – Apple is a leading example of this, with there many updates due to found errors. The worst thing you can do is not let things go. Holding onto failures makes our lives and our businesses difficult. Sometimes things are not in our control, you need to let the past go and not consume you.
4. Stop Dreading Monday Mornings
Do you dread Sundays because you know Monday morning is around the corner? Why? You have rested all weekend and now you have fresh eyes to the week ahead. You should view Mondays as a fresh start. If you dread the day ahead you will begin the day in a foul mood. Wipe those negative thoughts about dreading Mondays, situations and tasks, you will begin to feel lighter.
5. Look Ahead and Measure Your Success
On the roller-coaster ride of owning (or working) in a business, we often forget the little accomplishments we have made. Draw a line on a piece of paper and put today’s day in the center. On the left side put all the milestones your business has achieved and on the right, plan strategically what you hope to achieve in the next twelve months. How do you plan to achieve these goals? Set yourself weekly targets. Refer back to this time line weekly, if not daily and adjust accordingly. As you complete tasks and conjure new ideas, you will have a different perspective to your business. A better perspective.