As you go about your business today, this week…this month…what are you accomplishing? What are you putting off for another day? At the end of the day, what results can you show? If you aren’t in business to get real results, then you are just playing a dangerous game that you will likely lose – no matter how good things look right now. You can get results – the type that save you time, save you money and earn you bigger profits and more control over your business.
Rich Schefren nailed it! I won’t reinvent the wheel – but take his words to heart – and MAKE THE LIST! It’s a great practice that will open your eyes and convict you to take action.
My experience in business, after starting and growing my own businesses and working with some of the best Internet companies, in business after all is said and done (and unfortunately there is usually a lot more said than done) bad things will still happen.
And that’s why I am proud of my team, because as we get ready to close out this week and I find myself writing this post… when you strip everything away you are left with one of two things Results or Excuses, and I am proud of our results this week.
What about you? Are you proud or the results you accomplished this week or do you have a bunch of excuses as to why you haven’t accomplished anything of significance? What about for the past month or year?…
The results you want and the excuses you use are mutually exclusive, they cannot coexist…
If you’ve got more excuses in your life than you do results, start keeping a list of the most common excuses you give for not achieving the results you want. It’s the same in your business too, if you’re staff is delivering more excuses than results start keeping a list of the excuses that you are given.
Your job – whether it’s you or your staff generating the excuses, is to get rid of the most common ones that keep rearing their ugly heads. But I’ll tell you how to do that in a future post. For now, take a look at yourself and your business, and decide whether you’re better at generating results or excuses. Then make your list…" – Rich Schefren
http://www.strategicprofits.com/2006/08/04/results-or-excuses-which-are-you-known-for/
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