2012 has been quite a year! I have been blessed in business and personally in so many ways. As I reflect on the year I have learned so many lessons from my successes, challenges and failures. I will share with you the highlight learnings in hopes that they inspire you to take an inventory of your own learnings as well as learn from mine – no sense in reinventing the wheel 🙂
Lesson 1 – Energy is everything in being a successful entrepreneur! Managing physical, emotional and mental energy allows me to be more effective, more connected, successful and have more fun 🙂
Lesson 2 – Personal Foundation holds my success structure. Having a solid foundation in my relationship, physical environment, financial and health supports my ability to achieve success with more joy and less effort.
Lesson 3 – Values are my compass. Allowing my values to be the basis for every single decision I make leads me to quick and easy decision making with confidence and surety.
Lesson 4 – Metrics are more than just tracking. Measuring the critical areas of my business not only allows me to know where I am at and how to move forward more successfully, it provides me confidence in my abilities as a business owner and coach.
Lesson 5 – Down time is critical. I don’t just mean taking a week vacation. I mean taking a 10 minute break to regroup, refocus and realign with purpose or each activity
Lesson 6 – Knowing is only small part of the battle. The bulk of the battle is in managing energy, mindset, and taking action!
Lesson 7 – Accurate and inspiring messaging is more important than being an expert in your craft. Even if you are the top expert in your field, if your audience doesn’t know that you are, how you are and why you are, being the expert is useless.
Lesson 8 – Your set of personal traits IS the Unique Selling Proposition (USP). With the exception of the advanced technology and medical research fields, most things have been done before or are being done by someone else right now. What differentiates you from the rest are your Unique Personal Traits (UPT).
Lesson 9 – Community is place where purpose is born. We all have a purpose and if we really dig down to the core of it, we find that it is about serving our fellow man. Serving in our immediate and extended communities are why each of us are on this planet.
Lesson 10 – Relationships are the glue that holds it all together.
Each of these lessons have inspired me to provide better coaching programs & workshops and serve my clients, friends and family in a more rich and powerful way. Here’s to a prosperous 2013 filled with much joy, love and success!!
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