FCB #028: Improve Your Business? Change Your Mindset!

Introduction

So, your business isn't performing as well as you'd like? Don't know where to start to really improve your business? It's pretty easy and basic I'm afraid...

WORK ON CHANGING YOUR MINDSET!

You keep on working harder and longer hours. You work weekends. You don't take care of yourself. You sacrifice your family and friends for your business.

And you wonder why it's not working well?

The answer lies between your ears... in your head! It's called mindset. And, yes, you need to change yours if you ever hope to have a chance at succeeding with your business.

But just how exactly do you go about changing your mindset?

It's pretty easy actually. And I'm going to share three ways you can go about changing your mindset in this edition of our newsletter. This will be quick...

1. Read some books
2. Track & analyze your time
3. Hire a business coach

Read Some Books

This one's easy! Simply read the following three books. Probably take you two weeks. If your mindset doesn't shift after reading these three books, just give up the ghost and quit. Nothing's going to help you.

1. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber
2. Build a Business, Not a Job!, by David Finkel and Stephanie Harkness
3. Get Your Business To Work!, by George Hedely

The first one on the list above did it for me, but I was hard headed. Had to read it twice for the shift to really happen. If you read these and feel a tinge inside of -- "Heh, maybe I should be doing things differently!" -- there may be hope for you.

Track & Analyze Your Time

I've got a Time Tracker and Analyzer Google sheet I will share with you if you will ask for it in the comments and DM me. It will enable you to track your time for 2 weeks and then analyze how you spend it.

You will come to realize you spend way more time on Admin and Technician tasks than Manager or Executive ones. You'll also discover how much time you spend on tasks that suck the energy out of you rather than give you energy.

If you spend 2 weeks and actually do this exercise, you'll find out there are a lot of wasted tasks you can simply cut out of your business life. You'll also see that there are many you can delegate, systemize, or systemize and delegate.

Business owners I've worked with who actually do this easily reclaim 10-15 hours per week of precious time they were better able to use elsewhere in their businesses.

Oh, and when they did, their businesses started to improve... dramatically!

Hire a Business Coach

There's lots of great business coaches out there. Over the last 10 years, I spent well over $100,000 on business coaches, coaching programs, and consultants.

They helped me immeasurably!

Due to their help, I ultimately sold my business for 7 figures and got the heck out! You can too... if you want to. But, let's face it, you need help.

Here are some of the programs I used:

• 2X
• Aileron
• E-Myth Academy
• Level 7
• Maui Mastermind
• Value Builder System

I don't care which one you choose to work with. Pick one and get started. You need someone outside of your business with some true experience in business to help you see what you can't see in yourself.

Your mindset needs an upgrade, and you can't change it by yourself!

Conclusion

What got you to where you are at now in your business is not going to get you to where you want to go... where you know you NEED to go!

So, get out of your comfort zone. Read 3 simple books. Track and analyze your time. Find a good business coach to work with.

Get started! The sooner you do, the sooner your mindset will shift and your business will start to really improve.

I'm sure you've heard the saying "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results!"