Business Keys To Success: Being Approachable

Being approachable over my career has brought me opportunities and contacts I could never have imagined.  I attribute much of the success I have experienced and continue to experience to being approachable.  Obviously there are other important factors.  But being approachable and having the ability to connect are in the top five.

Opportunity for a better business and life constantly pass by you but opportunity won’t stop if you are not approachable.  Someone gets the promotion.  The other person doesn’t.  One person gets the sale.  The other person doesn’t.  One person is told about an opportunity to give them a competitive edge.  The other person never hears about it.

In my personal business coaching practice I encourage every client whether they are a self-employed business owner, entrepreneur, solo professional, corporate manager or executive to be approachable.
There is an interesting law at work here.  The more approachable you are the greater the opportunities personally and professionally will come your way.  I’ve never met a rich hermit.

Are The People In Your Life Approachable?

I am sure you have met people who seem cold and forbidding.  And you’ve met people who treat you like an old friend from day one.  This isn’t an issue with just high profile people.  I can look at my associations in the various organizations I belong to and tell you who is approachable and who is not.
To get a perspective on you and your life you may want to ask this question:  How approachable are the most important people in your life? When you need to ask your boss a question, is it easy or difficult?   When you need to talk to your spouse about a difficult subject, do you expect a dialogue or a fight?

Are You Approachable?

As I said, “I have never found a rich hermit.”  What about you?  Are you approachable?  You may think you are.  And, you may be surprised at how others truly see you.  I have clients who are very approachable on what I call “logic” matters.  Yet, they are distant on “emotional” matters.  And, I have clients who are just the opposite.  They are very approachable emotionally but on the logic they are distant.

Can the people closest to you talk to you about nearly anything?   Here’s a test.  When was the last time someone brought you bad news?  Or when was the last time someone strongly disagreed with your point of view on an issue?  Or confronted you with something you did wrong?  If it has been a while, you may not be a very approachable person.
 
Be Approachable

Some people treat the idea of becoming approachable as frivolous; it’s a nice thing if one can be bothered to cultivate it.  I have three online training courses that can give you insights to being more approachable among other keys and ultimately garnering more of the opportunities life has to offer.

Check out the following:

www.BusinessKeysToSuccess.com
www.WinningPersonalDevelopment.com
www.WinningCharacterTraits.com

Being approachable is a key to your success.  It is a powerful asset to have in your relational toolbox.  In the words of the famous shoe manufacturer, “Just Do It.”  Be approachable.

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Business Keys To Success: Self-Discipline

The road to success and ultimately more happiness is paved with self-discipline. Author H. Jackson Brown Jr. said, “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” If you know you have talent, and you’ve seen a lot of motion—but little concrete results—you may lack self-discipline. The road to small business success, or any success for that matter and happiness is paved with self-discipline.

Self-discipline-Sort Out Your Priorities

What two or three areas of your life are vital to your success? Write them down, along with the disciplines that you must develop to keep growing and improving in those areas. Develop the disciplines and more importantly develop an action plan with concrete steps that you must apply whether it is daily or weekly. Plan how they are going to become part of your life.

Self-discipline-List the Reasons

What are the benefits of practicing the disciplines you just listed? Starting something new is not easy. Without a positive vision of the benefits it is more challenging to follow through. Post these benefits somewhere where you will see them daily. In my personal business coaching practice I have observed the importance of constant visualization of what we want to accomplish and how it gives impetus to making it a reality.

Self-discipline—Get Rid of Excuses

Whether you are a self-employed business owner, entrepreneur, solo professional or corporate manager or executive all of us come up with excuses as to why we are not getting things done. To eliminate the roadblocks to developing your new disciplines write down the reasons as to why you may not be able to follow through with them. Read through them. And then dismiss them as the excuses they are.

Here’s the hard part. Even if a reason seems legitimate, find a solution to overcome it. Don’t leave yourself any reasons to quit. Remember that a discipline is the bridge between a thought and an action. Only when you have the discipline to act do you have the power to achieve your dreams.
There is a nursery in Canada that displays this sign on their wall: “The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago…..The second best time is today.” Plant the tree of self-discipline in your life today.

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First things first, I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach.Yes, I have received training and been coaching since 1983. I have gone through and continue to happily go through more personal development.

Personal development and its quest for personal growth, more often than not, are the missing links in the chain of business and personal success.As Warren Buffett once said, “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

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Hope

During the darkest moments of World War II Prime Minister Winston Churchill was asked what was the greatest weapon his country possessed? Immediately Churchill said, “England’s greatest weapon has always been—hope.”

Hope is one the most powerful and energizing words in the English language. It is something that gives us the power to keep going in the toughest of times.

Be a bringer of hope to others today.

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About Author :

First things first, I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach.Yes, I have received training and been coaching since 1983. I have gone through and continue to happily go through more personal development.Personal development and its quest for personal growth, more often than not, are the missing links in the chain of business and personal success.As Warren Buffett once said, “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

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Learn To Be A Sailor

Do you have the right personal philosophy to embrace change?

A good sailor adjusts to the winds. When the winds change he knows he must change. If he doesn’t he will not return to a safe harbor. He could remain at sea forever being tossed and turned by the winds.

But a good sailor won’t let that happen. He has developed one crucial skill. He knows how to reset the sail.

When the winds change, you must change. Learning to reset the sail with the changing winds is the skill you must develop to adjust to the winds of life.

And there is one other key ingredient besides having the skill to reset the sail.

You must apply the skill of resetting the sail. Too often people have developed the skill and don’t use it.

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To take you to the safe harbor of your choice you must apply the skill of resetting the sail.

Have the skill of resetting the sail, and use it often. That’s how you learn to be a sailor.

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Are You Affirming Others?

When you affirm people’s dreams you help their dreams become more real than their doubts. Like the repetition of a weight-lifting regimen, routine compliments build up people’s qualities and strengthens their personalities.

But good affirmations are about more than compliments. They must be about acknowledgements.

When you compliment someone you are talking about a choice they made. For example, “I like that shirt you are wearing.”

When you acknowledge someone you are affirming who they are directly with heart to heart communication. You are encouraging them. For example: “I really liked the way you expressed your feelings in a constructive manner in a difficult situation.” There is tremendous power in affirming ‘who’ someone is. And, you are encouraging them to exhibit this type of behavior in the future.

“There are high spots in all of our lives,” wrote author George Matthew Adams, “and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.”

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

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About Author :First things first, I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach.Yes, I have received training and been coaching since 1983. I have gone through and continue to happily go through more personal development.
Personal development and its quest for personal growth, more often than not, are the missing links in the chain of business and personal success.As Warren Buffett once said, “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

For more information please visit : www.businesskeystosuccess.com

Love, Wealth and Success

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.”

“Is the man of the house home?”, they asked.

“No”, she said. “He’s out.”

“Then we cannot come in”, they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. “Go tell them I am home and invite them in!” The woman went out and invited the men in.

“We do not go into a House together,” they replied.

“Why is that?” she wanted to know.

One of the old men explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, “He is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. “How nice!!”, he said. “Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!”

His wife disagreed. “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?”

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: “Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!”

“Let us heed our daughter-in-law’s advice,” said the husband to his wife. “Go out and invite Love to be our guest.”

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest”

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, “I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?”

The old men replied together: “If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would’ve stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”

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Keys To Success: Passion

Throughout my business experience I have found that passion is a key ingredient to small business success.  After all, if you don’t have passion about your product, service, company, and most importantly, yourself, it makes it that much harder to achieve personal and small business success.
In my personal business coaching practice I have observed that the clients who have the most passion also have the greatest degree of success.

Keys To Success:  Passion About Yourself

You have probably heard that true success is an “inside” job.  To succeed you must have passion about:

1. “Who” you are.
2. “What” you do.
3. “How” you do it.
4. “Why” you do it.

Lack of excitement in any of these areas will hold you back much more than you may realize. The most important area to be passionate about is YOU.  If you feel stuck or overwhelmed look at yourself and find something to change that will make you more excited about you.
After all, in business and life, we, so to speak, leak who we are.  What are you leaking about you?  How do you think?  How do you speak?  How do you dress?  Do you act with respect, kindness and consideration?

The answers to these questions and your passion about them are important keys to success.

Passion Is Your Value Proposition

In answering Who you are, What you do, How you do it and Why you do it you are establishing your value proposition to prospects, customers and client.  Too often this is forgotten.
I have collaborated with self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs and solo professionals who had the best technology and efficient systems but who fell short of where they wanted to be.
Once they understood that small business growth was not just about a great product or service and its delivery, but the passion with which it was delivered, their businesses and lives started to move forward and up.

Passion:  Look At Your Priorities

In running a small business or starting your own business I see self-employed business owners with passion but lacking clear priorities.  This is a recipe for disaster.

Be a person with passion but also priorities.  Without the right priorities and taking action on them personal and small business success is more likely to elude you.  Make sure that your daily priorities are in alignment with where you want to take your business and life.

With your priorities in alignment your passion will grow and help take you to the personal and small business success you desire.  Your success will be in your passion.

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