As you know working as a business I frequently speak to large groups about success and how the high achievers achieve it.Often these success secrets are no secret at all.
We all know a lot of what is needed to be successful. So why aren’t you as successful as you want to be.
Do you suffer from Persefearance? The fear of pushing on when you face adversity and pushing through the inevitable barriers that face you?
If you were to analyse parts of your life where you have achieved great success. And you have all achieved success. You just don’t give yourself the credit you deserve often enough!
Do you see how important perseverance played in your success?
Are you are a great footballer, golfer, sports person. Did that come overnight?
You are a great communicator, leader, team builder. Did that come overnight?
You are a great success in saving, investing for the future. Did that come overnight?
No you probably had to persevere over a long time, in order to get the outcome you wanted. Maybe you are still persevering.
But how many of you are persefearing the very thing you need to do in order to achieve the success you want?
The fear of pushing on despite of the inevitable resistance and obstacles you’ll face.
The fear of failing by continuing to move forward, even if it seems that for every two steps forward you take one step backward?
Well unless you live a charmed life, then you will have to develop a strong sense of perseverance in order to succeed.
This isn’t as daunting as you may fear at first.
Are you guilty of looking at the enormity of a challenge, rather than breaking your challenge in to small incremental steps.
Check out the brilliantly simple GOSPA method to help you do this in my blog The GOSPA according to Ronan.
If we look at our challenge differently and intuitively we can change how we feel about it.
What I mean is that very often people will say to me “Ronan there’s just so much to do to get started, that I don’t know how to start”.
The task seems so overwhelming that it literally stifles people.
A great example in this market is that of sourcing new customers, and new products for new markets. We all need to grow our business and yet the first steps seem daunting.
When we set up our business focused on the UK market, at first it seemed a daunting a task too.
But the UK is just a collection of mini territories. So we broke it down. We focused on territories near regional airports that were easily accessible from Dublin.
We started in Scotland and targeted clients near Prestwick, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.
We simply narrowed our task down to a few simple progressive steps. And persevered until we got a foothold in those local markets. We then widened our net to focus on Scotland as a market.
Next we focused on Northern England. We targeted Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle and created little clusters of focus.
All the while we still had our overall goal of €20 million to hit, but we chipped away at the goal in small steps.
We knew that through perseverance and determination as well as a relentless focus, we’d succeed.
And did we have lots of failures along the way. Too many to mention here. We got it wrong many times, but we just kept moving forward.
You too can do the same. Get rid of the Persefearance and develop perseverance. You’ll get results. But don’t think for a minute that’s it’s easy. It won’t be, but it will get less hard with perseverance.
Actions;
Identify the key areas in your business where you have lacked the perseverance to be successful. Be straight with yourself.
Now set a goal to persevere for at least 12 months. And to do what is necessary daily, weekly and monthly to move you forward.
Next get an ACCOUNTABILITY partner to hold you accountable to your daily actions. Everyone needs a coach. Find yourself someone who can act as your coach in this regard. It can be your colleagues, your spouse, your friend. It just needs to be someone who will genuinely hold you accountable.
Best of luck.
Ronan
Ronan Kilroy Certified FocalPoint Business Coach
Profitability, Productivity, Possibility.
