It Isn’t the Tech

And it isn’t the apps, the hacks or even AI. They might save some time but they won’t give your business a sustainable advantage over the longer term.

Sustainable success starts with you. Who you are, not what you do.

I explain this model to all of my clients. Be x Do = Have.

Who you are multiplied by what you do will give you what you get(have). There is only so much any one of us can do, but becoming ‘more’ will multiply everything that we do and that is how we increase the value of ourselves and the organisations we work in and the lives we lead.

This, I believe, is the magic of coaching. It is why coaching is the best accelerator of performance that there is. It is for this reason that I ‘grow the business leader to grow the business’.

If you are leading a growing business but not growing yourself it is inevitable that you will hit a wall of some sort, either physical mental or financial, or all three. You will hit your rev limiter. I know, it nearly killed me and that is why the incidence of poor mental health is so prevalent among business owners and founders. As a friend once wrote ‘we are only one life event away from a major mental catastrophe’.

If what you’re doing is important, either to you, to others or to the world then it behoves you to make sure that you are constantly, consistently and insistently managing your own growth.

So the questions for this week are:

• What is your deliberate and thoughtful strategy for self growth?
• On a scale of 0 to 10 how effective is it?
• On a scale of 0 to 10 how good are you at applying it?
• What could you do to move either score by 2 points?
• What benefits might you and your people experience as a result?

“Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development” Jim Rohn

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