Six Strategies for getting BREAKTHROUGHS in YOUR Business ( By Gary Lockwood)

Are you?

• Getting all you desire from your enterprise?
• Progressing in your professional practice as much as you desire?
• Satisfied that your job/career gives you everything you want?

      "You don't drown by falling in the water; 

        you drown by staying there."

                          Edwin Louis Cole

Wealth.... Quality of Life.... Satisfaction... Fun....

Many of the CEOs, business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals that I coach have come to me because of that feeling that "there must be more than this". Most are successful, yet have the feeling that they are working harder and are less satisfied. Many were trying to develop a balance between their personal and professional lives.

If you're having these feelings, join the club. A gap exists between expectations and the reality of the workplace today. While business people generally expect they will take more time off and worry less about money as their business grows, they currently work long hours, spend little time with family and suffer from dangerously high levels of stress. These are the challenges of working in a time of transition.

The bad news is there is a great gulf to bridge between reality and expectations. The good news? There are ways both individuals and corporations can change to improve both workplace quality and the level of productivity.

What are the possibilities? How would you like to just leap over the mundane, step-by-step progress you have been making? You do not have to settle for incremental improvements. You CAN achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in your business and personal life if you know how.

Interestingly, YOU already have the answers for more success! They are just locked away inside you. Unlock the creative power inside you and focus it on turning your dreams into reality. 

In my fourteen years of coaching and training, I've observed how successful business people "break through" existing boundaries and move their business and their lives to a higher level. I have identified six aspects of the enterprise where it's possible to achieve these breakthroughs.

To get breakthroughs, CEOs, business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals must systematically examine and develop the six integrated principles of success. These Breakthrough Strategies are: 

Develop a compelling STRATEGIC VISION:

This is the process of surfacing and clarifying the areas of significance to you and your business. You will establish meaningful goals in each of these areas. This assures that you stay focused on the outcomes you desire. 

In times of great change and ambiguity, how do you set meaningful goals? And how do you keep your business moving forward and on target? This is what strategic thinking is all about. For this breakthrough strategy, identify the 8 or 10 key areas that are important and essential for your business and your personal life - cash flow, customers, employees, family, friends, spiritual growth, health and so on. Write them down. 

In each of these areas, develop a crystal clear vision of where you are going with this. What's possible? What does it look like when you're living up to your best expectations in each of these areas? Describe as best you can, in writing, what it looks like and what it feels like when you have reached the point in each of your key result areas where you are happy with each. This represents a picture of your future, as you prefer it to be.

These processes have been designed to take advantage of the way your mind actually learns and the way entrepreneurs actually work. With clear purpose and direction, your efforts will be laserfocused on the results you want. 

Article to be continued.