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Tags: self improvement, success, greatness
 Where and when do you begin to transform your own business from mediocre to great? As the motivational speaker Les Brown said, “You do not have to be great to get started, yet you really have to get started to be great.” Given below are the top 7 important factors for encouraging and fostering greatness within your own career.
1. Know your reasons or your compelling “why”. How does your enterprise or company make a difference in your customers’ and clients’ lives? And for what “surpassing” purpose does your business exist? The great Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl said it best: “Success, just like being happy, can’t be pursued or looke for; it must take place subsequently...as the unintentional side effect of a person’s dedication to a cause greater than himself.
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2. Look for models of greatness. There are many examples of greatness everywhere—within each industry, any career path, in every geography. What necessary changes could you make this day to be like them? Look for those persons, or those businesses which inspire you the most. 3. Know what your enterprise stands for and try to live for those values.
Today more than ever, customers and clients don’t just ask “what products and services does your business offer?” They ask also “what ideals and values do you stand for?” “What beliefs and values does your business stands for?” “And what principles and practices have you developed in trying to live those values daily?” 4.
Always dare to be different; where in your trade could you break some rules? And how could you set yourself separate and distinct and stand out from the crowd in your industry? Contrarians are the change agents in the world of business. These money-making and wealth-creating businesses are not just “performing and doing better”—they are radically altering the rules of the success game in their arena or industry.
5. Always try to seek for the edge. In 1954, Roger Bannister did the apparently “impossible or unthinkable” in running the first 4-minute mile. When asked how he did it, he said that “It is the ability to take more out of yourself than you have got.” So how could you “take more out of yourself than you have got” in order to accomplish the seemingly unthinkable or impossible in your own business? 6.
Commit and dedicate to your personal greatness. How do you define personal greatness for your own self? What changes or modifications could you do to unleash your own personal greatness? In order to create and sustain a great business, you have to commit to your own greatness. After all, your business is a direct reflection of where you’re at.
It actually grows as fast as you do. 7. Know and determine the end in mind. What plans or decisions have you created about the future of your business? Remember, great businesses decide on their future—and they are not dictated by it. They know exactly where they stand, where they want to be, how and when, and they insist and persist in getting there.
About the author
The author of this article, Amy Twain, is a Self Improvement Coach who has been coaching and guiding clients for many years. Learn how to be a HAPPY WORKER and Be Successful in life.
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