How Is The Business Plan Coming Along?

The last couple of days have consumed a lot of time very quickly.  The clock had the attitude that it wanted to run along faster than normal.  Once in awhile, with each glance to see what time it was, the clock traveled so fast it produced a surprise at how fast time had passed.  When the clock runs faster than the work we planned to complete our desire to speed up tends to make us feel more anxious.  We tend to think that if we speed up our work steps we can get more work done to catch up where we are running behind.

Be anxious for nothing.

Lost time is a reasonable expectation.  One of the most ignored steps any planning process includes is the fact that time travels very quickly.  Losing time is a staple process that should always be included in the business world of development schemes.  Time travels very quickly.  There will never be enough time.  Learn to accept this fact and be more patient with your plans, with your work, and with your expectations.

Be anxious for nothing.  Teach yourself how to stay on task but at the same time, be patient to allow the clock to out run your expectations.  It will happen more than you prefer.  Do not allow it to dominate your energy with frustration.  When you hammer nails, not all of them remain straight.  Some nails bend without warning.  Time works in the same fashion.  The clock bends too fast some times.  It runs along too quickly and without warning.  Accept it.  Make sure you plan for unwanted delays, time consuming changes and interruptions that disturb the pattern of your path to get more done.  With that in mind, how is your business plan coming along?  Have you started on it yet?  Why not?

Do you really believe you do not need to write a new business plan?  Get serious.  Are you treating your business model like an employee treats his travel to work each day?  Are you showing up at your place of business and beginning to do the stuff you have done each day for the past few years?  Is this your current pattern of work production?  It is, isn't it.

You have come so far along in your business model that you are actually treating your business model like an employee who is showing up at work.  You are sitting down each day and doing the routine stuff that helps you to perform the menial stuff that completes the steps you think you should be doing each minute, each hour and each day.  You are acting and performing like an employee who puts in their regular time.  You are not thinking like a business owner.  You are thinking like a tired employee.  There is no excitement in your world of business ownership, only work...work...work.  The only excitement you manage in your working world are the problems you face each day as you try to resolve them when they pop up.

Your business ownership has become a job in your mind.  You have not sat down to develop any set of plans to help guide your actions into a building process that leads your work activities into higher production thinking with better system developments that produce greater rewards.  Your business is crippled by the limitations you have placed on your work activities.  Your return for the work you produce will always follow that pattern.  It will produce limited rewards because your business has accepted limited work patterns.  With this type of business approach, the clock will always run faster than the work you prefer to get done.  Always.  Just remember to be anxious for nothing.

Limited business designs in your model of plans will produce limited results that consume large chunks of time.  If you do not believe this axiom to be true, write down what you accomplished today and see how long it took to achieve those deeds.  Be honest.  Do not trick your mind away from seeing the truth.  You will be the only one that type of trickery will hurt.  Self wounding is a sickness.  Stop it.  By the way, how is your business plan coming along?

If you think your little business is above doing a serious plan, you are already defeated.  You have accepted the fact that your business is not worth more than what you put into it.  You just want a job that does not have a boss to tell you what to do or what not to do.  You want to produce some reasonable income without any risks to explore the possibilities for greater results.  This is true if you operate a retail business, a construction company, a small manufacturing plant, an online service provider, a technology based consulting firm, a transportation company, a nightclub, an art gallery, an auto repair shop, a tattoo alley shop or any other small business model.  Your business model may provide the kind of work you have become accustomed to performing that may be a risk free way to produce a job for you to earn an income, without a boss telling you what to do.  That may be it.

You do not sit down and produce a great business plan because you are not dissatisfied enough with how your income production is flat lined.  You have no real motivational pressure to produce more.  Your small business model allows you to produce just exactly what you need, and no more.  There is no reason to develop a big idea for doing more.  It has nothing to do with what kind of skills you were gifted with receiving.  You are not willing to test those skills and grow your business model beyond what you could ever expect.  You will sit down and watch thousands of others stretch their abilities beyond where they were given the aptitude to perform and consider them all to be very lucky.  The risks those lucky people take will seem normal to you as they personally grow to achieve bigger things.  It will look like their success fell right upon their heads like some magical event.  It did not.

People who win big take big risks.  They also endure big losses.  They also produce big dreams and big desires.  They also have a seriously big plan.  They do not wake up each morning worrying about how fast the clock is running.  They worry more about how well they are going to grow.  The clock has nothing to do with the process.  The process has all to do with a plan.

How is your business plan coming along?

Is your business plan running next to a clock, doing its daily work or is it running next to how it will grow into something very big?  If you hammer nails for a living, what is your plan to become big in that business?  Do you have one?  Is it written?  Are you serious about winning big?  Are you afraid of failing?

How is your business plan coming along?  What does it look like?  What does it say about your business model?  How is it helping your business model perform better?  What does your business plan say about how you operate your business model?  What are you willing to develop?  How big is your dream?  What kind of life do you want to live?  How simple can your business become?  How much thinking can you avoid?  How much effort can you ignore?  How mad do you need to become?

All of these questions are reality checks that occur silently to everyone of us on a daily basis.  These questions are managed by our brains with all kinds of shifting and manipulation we can afford to perform.  Some of our leadership skills are suppressed by what we believe to be our 'lot in life' patterns for living up to where we think we belong.  We therefore remain static in our business developments.  What we manage right now seems to be exactly what we should be managing to do.  We just wished the results were better for us to receive.

How is your business plan coming along?  Does it need some effort?  Does it need some attention?  Does it need to begin?  It is never too late.  Your working business is not too small.  Great things can happen in a hurry when great things are designed to be done.  Maybe you should get started.  Think bigger.  Learn how to creatively think beyond hitting nails when you hammer.  The world is waiting for new designs, new technologies, newer methods, easier tools, better systems, better combination's and stronger holds.  Get busy and take your business world to a place it has not been willing to go.  Allow yourself the courage to risk what you may lose, you might just win.

Until next time...