Have you ever thought to yourself “I feel lost. I have no idea what I’m doing in my business anymore.”? I sure have, and a client of mine came to me recently and told me he’s been feeling just like that. As I sat there and listened to him tell me how overwhelmed and stuck he’s feeling under the circumstances, all I could think about was just that. He was operating his business based on current circumstances. When we do this, there’s no way for us to move forward. We will remain stuck in this state until we can learn to operate from the mindset that our current circumstances aren’t holding us back, but actually helping us.
We cannot control what happens to us day to day. There’s bound to be obstacles at one point or another that will appear to be holding us back. The trick is to view these obstacles not as a problem or a hindering our growth, but as an opportunity to change along with our ever-changing world. It’s far too easy to see adversity heading your way and start making excuses for why you can’t overcome it. Instead, we must learn to face it head on so we can discover all of what it takes, and doesn’t take, to really push past.
The client who came to me in a state of unrest, he had quite a lot of these excuses. I had to stop him and ask “What is your true north?”. Your true north, or north star, is the thing that will always be there to help you find some direction in your life. If ever you find yourself heading down the wrong path or you’ve lost your way down another, you look to this true north, this thing that gives you clarity and reminds you which way is right, and you correct your course back to where you were originally headed. We need to forget the excuses and stop straying away from all of the things we should be doing and follow that path of clarity towards the success we want out of life.
Every single one of us is faced with something seeming to hold us back from what we want out of our business. Some push through, but many of us struggle to see past the current circumstance of whatever is standing in our way. We lose sight of our true north and become consumed with the present. The future becomes impossible to envision anymore. It’s harder to fight through your problems than it is to sit in fear, and that seems to be the case for a lot of people. But in order to thrive in a world that will inevitably throw us for a loop every now and then, we have to be willing to put in the work and not be afraid to go where we’ve never been before.
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