7 Minutes In The Morning

How will you know you've 'made it'? It's a pretty common question, especially in entrepreneur and business owner circles. So common in fact that we don't really pay attention to what the question assumes...namely, that there IS such a thing as making it! Too many business owners, leaders, and high performing individuals assume that the promised land awaits if they just keep their head down and soldier on. Do you feel that way? What if that's wrong? In my coaching practice, I've had the opportunity to work with several business owners as they were making an exit from their company. All but one of them looked back on their time owning the company with a perspective of failure, or at least missed opportunities. "We never really made the big time" kind of thinking. It's not until I remind them that they did manage to keep their family fed, clothed, housed, kids through college, employees employed, suppliers supplying...that it finally dawns on them that they'd been "making it" all along. So instead of seeing toda