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You could make the argument that the entrepreneurial system is broken. It’s fair to state that a big part of this comes from the way business owners run their lives and their choices.
Businesses don’t fail because owners don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t fail because it’s inevitable or must follow that path. Entrepreneurs fail because they’re not set up to win, holistically.
Business owners know what they’re doing providing products and services to their customers. They need help discovering how to manage a company that keeps them healthy. It’s time for an end to entrepreneurs getting advice that tells them to do the opposite.
Bad coaching has them take their #1 resource, strip it down and drive it into the ground. It doesn’t work and has no integrity. It doesn’t provide freedom for the founders who give it all to accomplish their dreams. Sure, a few might make it, but most will fail.
Accepting this approach will almost certainly NOT develop your company the fastest. But, it is the pathway for producing a healthy business that will thrive. It is the pathway that enables success and The Freedom Lifestyle.
You CAN experience a healthy relationship between you and your business. And, you CAN also create healthy relationships with all the things that are important to you.
Your first job is to make sure you’re in a great place to contribute what your company requires. Of all the areas in the Entrepreneur’s 12 Key Areas of Life™, Business is the foundation. Having a thriving business provides access to resources like time, money and a team.
The other 11 Key Areas of Life supply the support to have you and your business thrive. It is an interrelated system that needs all its parts working. Your physical body functions best when all its systems are working optimally. Likewise, an entrepreneur functions best when the 12 Key Areas of Life are in equilibrium.
Your most important job as a CEO is to protect the integrity of your #1 resource…YOU! This is Habit #52 from my Amazon #1 international bestselling book, “Cure Entrepreneurialitis: 52 Habit to Earn the Freedom You Deserve.”
Follow these tips to practice taking care of yourself first:
• Notice when you trade your personal integrity and your needs for your business. Quit making bad deals.
• Listen to your body. When it asks for rest or time off, accept it.
• Don’t work when you’re sick. Give yourself time to recover and heal with integrity.
• Stop accepting any coaching that has you put your business needs before your own.
• Focus on the freedom you deserve and costs and tradeoffs of every choice you make.
Core values constitute the fundamental beliefs you have about your life and Key Life Areas. They guide your behaviours, decisions, and actions. They impart a sense of purpose and self-worth.
Our society throws the word ‘freedom’ around often with little thought to its meaning. How many times have you heard the commonplace phrase ‘financial freedom’? Are you expecting to eventually live financially free?
Think about the last time someone helped you overcome a challenge: How did you feel? I bet you felt relieved. Did you also experience a feeling of deep appreciation towards that individual? Was it accompanied by the impulse to return the favour?
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