Best Small Business Idea -- Get Focused and Get Going
I used to give a talk titled, "10 Ways to Overcome Overwhelm in
Business and In Life". It was an excellent resource for getting
into action and taking charge of your business. If you'd like a
copy, just email me and I'll send it to you. After I'd given
this talk for awhile, I realized that getting out of overwhelm
was even simpler. You don't need 10 ideas. That's overwhelming
in itself. You just need one essential key. If you can master
this one key, you can pretty much get whatever you want out of
your business and your life. Here it is. Don't blink or you'll
miss it. Focus.
That's right, focus. When you are entirely focused on what you
are doing in the moment, you don't have any attention left for
being in overwhelm. Focus and overwhelm are opposites. Think
about it. You are overwhelmed because you are thinking about all
the things you've got to get done today, tomorrow, and the day
after. You aren't solidly focused in the present moment doing
what's in front of you. But when you are stuck in overwhelm,
it's really hard to get focused. So what can you do?
It's actually very simple. Get back to basics. Go back to your
core values, your mission statement, your vision. Stop right now
and think about the vision you had for your business when you
first started it. What did you want to accomplish? Why did you
want to do it? Were you looking for freedom? Did you have a
better way of helping people? Completely let yourself be
absorbed in the dream you had. Feel how it was when you started.
Now you are focused. Take this vision and write it down again.
Go into detail about what you really want to do with your
business.
Now from this focused state, get into action. It should be much
more clear to you now what the most important tasks are. Focus
your energy on those and get going. Any time you start feeling
overwhelmed, stop and go back to your dream, your vision. Ask
yourself why you are doing what you are doing. Really feel it
and then start again. I guarantee you this will get you focused
and get you out of overwhelm. Now you can get what you really
wanted out of your business.
Start up business resource guide and consultant, Michael Clark
has been crafting best small business ideas for over 20 years.
Michael is a serial entrepreneur having opened multiple
successful small businesses over the last 12 years. For more
small business success stories and business resource groups,
visit his web site at http://biznbeyond.com. Feel free to copy
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Michael Clark at Business and Beyond.