Take Off Your Boots!
By B. Scott Binion
If you were outside in two feet of snow with temperatures below zero, would you take off your boots to shovel the driveway? Of course not! But did you know that a lot of business owners do that very thing, maybe not literally, but in how they operate their business? They remove or change something as a pure reaction instead of thinking it through like they should.
Here are a few examples:
- Let go of your “star” sales person due to a bad couple of months
- Spend needed funds on non essential things, such as that fancy new red sportscar
- Stopping what’s working like your networking activities because it takes too much time
I’m sure there are a thousand other examples of “when the boots come off in the cold” you can think of. To put it bluntly, you most likely will sacrifice future gains for a so-called urgent course of action. Which usually leads to unfavorable results.
Before you take those boots off, think about how cold it will be. Same with your networking, count the cost before making drastic business-changing decisions. It may cost you more than you think.
If you have cold feet right now, call one of us at BNI Minnesota and let’s see what can be done to get your networking activities ready for the New Year.
Tags: motivation, networking, self-help
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