Your business plan – if you have one — is black and white.

If you follow your plan step-by-step, you’ll be successful.  That sounds amazingly simple, just like they teach in business schools.  Sounds like a plan you want to follow.

WRONG!  It doesn’t work.

Business schools teach plans, case studies, a perfect strategy, which combined give you a solution to solve any problem.

Reality is different.

It is different because plans are more than paragraphs on paper.  There is something you cannot put on paper.  

You have to deal with people. 

That makes black and white plans gray.  The simple becomes complex when you throw people into the mix.

Strategy problems become leadership problems.

Almost all business problems are really leadership problems.

Almost any plan will succeed if you are leading effectively.  You can’t be a dictator and just yell, “follow the plan.”

It’s possible that your plan isn’t all that important. 

What’s important is your mission.

For you to stand in front of your people and shout, “Mission accomplished,” your people need to know your mission and be committed to accomplishing it.

Everyone around you needs to know what your mission is and why you’re doing what you are doing. 

What are your intentions?

• Explain your intentions so they understand them.
• Explain their roles, so they understand them.
• Recognize them for the work they do, because you appreciate them for doing it.

They’ll understand your mission and your attitude because you’re living it.

Any plan will work when you lead.

That sounds so simple that it sounds ridiculous.  But that’s the truth behind most business breakthroughs.

Want to fix your business plan?

Start leading.  The better the leader is, the better the business plan will be.

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If you are in a funk, it your own fault!

That is the TRUTH, even if you think it’s a heartless thing for me to say.  What you think about is your responsibility.  You are in total control.

What you think is the only thing that matters.  The reason is simple.  This was known in ancient times. The writer of Proverbs in Old Testament wrote about it.

• You become what you think about.

• You have total control over what you think about.  

• You have total control over what you allow to bother you.

• The way you feel is not someone else’s fault.

• Negativity and spoiled attitudes are not the result of some cosmic conspiracy.  

It is common belief today in some circles that life would be amazing if bad things didn’t derail us.

But that is dead wrong.

Nothing “happens TO you”.

That’s nonsense that you tell yourself in order to avoid the harsh reality that you are responsible for your malaise.

If you sit around and think about how miserable your life is, you’ll never be anything but sad, bitter, and jealous.  

But . . . if you think you’re going to be successful eventually, it is probable that you will be.

It’s how your brain is wired.

Science now shows us that our brain goes out of its way to identify and collect memories that align with our existing memories.  Studies show that the brain regulates this behavior by releasing neuro-transmitters that shut down reasoning that contradicts what we want to believe.  At the same time, this new neural behavior excites new ideas that bolster our existing logic.

What we start thinking about, we tend to think about more, and in time becomes habit ingrained in the brain’s subconscious.  That kind of thinking includes our every decision or priority.

You need to think about your thinking.  Only allow the most important things to stay in your thoughts.

Here’s how:

• Avoid negative people like your life depends on it.  They’ll imbalance you.
• Schedule time for physical exercise.  It’ll make you more rational.
• Devote time to planning and priorities.  Uncertainly short-circuits the brain.
• Learn something from unfair criticism. If you can handle the worst, everything else is easy.
• Use notes and memos to remind you to think right.
• Read something uplifting or inspirational every day.

You will become what you think about most.  Your future is up to you.

It’s not a matter of chance or luck.

It’s what you allow yourself to dream about.  To think about!

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