GET A LIFE!

How do you measure success?

Is it giving your business your all?

Is it being available all the time for your clients?

Is it constantly acquiring new clients and new team members in the name of growth?

These three are common markers of success.

My question to you is this, at what point do those indicators of success in business turn into indicators of failure in life?

Every marker has two sides.

To one extent it is positive, to another extent it is negative.

Have you taken a step back and evaluated what success means to you or what you want it to mean to you?

I used to be subscribed to achieving the extreme of the above three markers - sacrificing everything in the name of business success.

Burning the candle at both ends in the name of giving it my all because there was always one more thing to do which meant being in solitude with my laptop more often than not, even when living with a partner or in a beautiful location that I had moved to enjoy.

Being available to my clients all the time meant taking calls even at midnight, interrupting a date or a beautiful day out meant my mind was constantly in my business no matter where I was.

Growing my client list at a rapid pace, and my team alongside that to handle the workload in the name of success meant 6x’ing my company in a 10 month period in all dimensions, rapidly trying to keep up with SOPs, management systems, and catching balls that were being dropped.

It took me the dark, negative side of business success with me being burned out mentally and physically, and frankly, feeling pretty miserable.

The past couple of years had me put my definition of success under a microscope and I didn’t like what I found.

Maybe it was a midlife crisis calling my name, but I realized I had missed out on so much of life because of my business success-addiction.

I had let good partners go, missed out on so many social events, and become really good at being alone.?

It was time to define success on my own terms.

No longer did I want the business empire I thought I did.

Instead, I wanted to get a life.

The new indicators of success I developed were these three:

Success would mean simplicity in my business and for my clients.

Success would mean effective programs.

Success would mean predictable outcomes for my clients and my company.

These three markers meant that I had to burn away everything that contradicted these new indicators of success was pretty much all of how I used to operate.

Everyday now, I get be outside in the sunshine in the beautiful places I am traveling to during the day, and then spending 5 hours client-facing spread out over 3 evenings a week.

That is my version of simplicity.

It has allowed me to pare my programs down to only the essential and most efficient 5% of work that my clients need to do to realize the impact and income they want in their business.

That is my version of effective.

It has allowed me to provide $125k guarantees to my clients because of the effectiveness of the program and show my clients how to do the same in their programs.

That is my version of predictable.

I now have space in my life to live, to enjoy, and to have adventure without worries about my business intruding in everything.

It took a lot of matches to burn away the deeply engrained, outdated version of success I subscribed to for so long, and it was worth it.

If you are ready to burn away your old version of success and redefine success on your terms so you can have a simple, effective, and predictable business, join my next event:

https://www.unleashinginfluence.net/intensive

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