As we reach the mid point of the year, this is a great time to reflect on whether your strategy is working. Have you accomplished all you wanted to during the first six months of the year? If not why not? What do you need to do differently during the next six months to meet your goals?. Do you even have a strategy or any idea of where you are on the journey.
When I start working with many of my clients I often discover they don’t have a strategy in place. They don’t know what success looks like for them and they certainly don’t have a road map of how to get there. Without a strategy and plan in place about what you want to achieve how will you ever know if you are on track and being successful. How will you stay motivated to get going when things get tough?
Personally I experienced the challenge of not having a plan in place this morning and I was shocked about the impact that it had on me. You see I was out doing my morning run and listening to my podcast on when to run and walk. Now for some reason I didn’t hear the piece that told me how long to run for, so when the audio track told me to run I did just that. I started running. The only problem was that I had no frame of reference. I didn’t know if I was running for 8,10, 15 or indeed 20 mins. I can’t explain how challenging I found it not knowing what I was trying to achieve. I was literally running blind, not sure how to conserve my energy as I didn’t know how far I was meant to go. During that run I experienced anxiety and frustration at not just knowing when I would be done.
And as I was running into that blind void I realised that this is the same feeling most business owners have each day. Maybe you can relate to that?. Without a roadmap and strategy you don’t know where you are going. You don’t know when you need to take corrective action, when you need to stop and when you need to push on and get the task completed. You don’t know when to celebrate because you don’t know that ave achieved all you set out to do. Without a strategy and plan you have no clarity and certainty on what is happening.
So if you are feeling off track and need some help getting focus and clarity for the remainder of the year, so that you can regain your confidence in the outcome, then please connect with me for a complimentary mentoring session during which we will identify the current challenges in your business and how you can overcome these. Just book into my diary here. I can’t wait to connect with you.
Have a great week
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
