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How To Look At Where YOU Are Now And Move To Where You Want To BE

By jimsym on Jan 12, 2006 in Uncategorized

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This is the time of the year that I always review where I am in terms of my career. Now I review where I am in my business too.

I’m strict with myself about it and ask some tough questions:

Am I over-delivering for all my clients. Regardless of size?
Am I working on my business at a minimum of 1 hour a week?
Am I asking for suggestions to improve my business from suppliers, customers and staff?
Am I making and updating plans?
Am I holding people accountable?
Am I holding myself accountable?
Am I discussing business issues with someone that I can trust?
Do I have a path to continual improvement and progress?
Am I enjoying what I’m doing and changing when I’m not?
Am I scheduling continual education for myself?

I coach a lot of clients so I understand the importance of coaching. But before I started using a mentor I found that even I didn’t pay attention to every area.

Now I do.

People and organisations get stuck in a rut. That’s why it’s important to have someone who holds you accountable for your own success but also supports you.

Are you in a rut? Is your company?

Alan Lampkin said “a rut is a grave with no ends”. That means if you’re in a rut you’re just waiting for the earth to be shoveled over you.

To move on you need to improve your company, your career and you life.

How do you do that?

Don’t complain to your family. Because they start giving you advice and are effectively starting to manage your career or business for you.

Use a mentor/coach for yourself.

Why?

Because a coach works constantly on their clients business. Every minute is spent fixing something in the business or improving some area of skill. That one aspect can be tiny but is still an improvement.

With the right coaching you focus on a specific area of you or the company each week so that at the end of the year you’ve had 48 areas of improvement.

Even after all this time, I still need a sounding board and someone to keep me on the straight and narrow.

I’ve been an IT Project director and I know how important plans are. But with being so busy you think you don’t need them. Guess what a coach makes you realise you need them. And helps to develop them.

When I get a coaching client I always set a coaching schedule for a year with them.

Why?

Because you need to take yourself and your company seriously and you know your company will remain in business for the foreseeable future.

So unless you know you have the iron discipline to keep focused on areas I talked about before AND you’ve been immersed in marketing from people like Claude Hopkins, Gary Halbert and others and have worked in a large number of different organisations you need a coach.

I do have good discipline. I’m steeped in the material the top marketeers put out. I do marketing! I’ve worked in a large number of organisations as a consultant. Organisations that range from blue chip to small starter 5 man and upwards companies.

I’m currently coaching people in the USA, UK, Slovenia and Crotia so I know exactly how a coach helps people. I’ve written a report that I’m offering for free to the first 10 people to email me.

(Update: Too late to order now I’m afraid!)

Email me at jim.symcox at acornservice.com with coach report in the subject line and I’ll send you my short report on “How To Select And Use A Coach To Explode Your Business”. The report tells you: