The Three Steps To Building Success As An Entrepreneur

By Joyce

Building Success and Entrepreneurial Coaching
Breaking through the entrepreneurial glass ceiling is not easy for an entrepreneur. However, yes, it can be done.

What is the Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling? It’s simple: we start our business, we work all areas of it ourselves. We think of it, we work it, we sacrifice day in and day out. Nobody can do it as well as we can nor can they do it with the same drive and dedication.

We skip time off and go ten years without a vacation. We endlessly hire and eventually fire people always searching for employees that are the clone of ourselves. It is an endless cycle where we are trapped within the limits of time and energy. There are only so many hours in the day that we can do it all. Eventually a limit is reached. That limit is the Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling where we, as one person, can do no more.

When things go wrong, we go in like a bull in a china shop, shake things up and start again, building another cycle that will eventually end this way. There are very few entrepreneurs that have not experienced this endless cycle. Breaking through is again, possible, with the right actions done in the right way.

What are those actions?

The actions, an outline of what to do, will stem from setting up the big picture goal of getting your business to a point where it can run and make a profit without you. Most entrepreneurs, even on paper as an owner of a business, really only have a job. They are ironically trapped in a job within a company they own. The following three action steps, the “Three Steps to Anything,” can begin to free a business owner from their endless cycle.

Action Step 1
Do a thorough examination. No doctor will ever prescribe a medicine without performing an examination, and neither should you. Tinkering with your business can be catastrophic unless you know exactly what to do. So, step back and examine it first.

Action Step 2
Find solutions. Look at everything. Forget whether you like the solutions or not, just list them out. At a later time you can filter through whether they are positive or negative or you like or dislike them.

Action Step 3
Take action. Put the right solution in place for you and your business.

These are the three steps to owning a business, not a job. These are the three steps to breaking through the entrepreneurial glass ceiling.

Individuals and companies who tend to see the greatest success in developing and implementing powerful solutions that help their business to make a profit independently of themselves are motivated, open-minded, trusting of themselves and others, and quick to respond. In other words, they do these steps, they take action.

In business, the slower you react, the more money it can cost you as an entrepreneur. Individuals who tend to procrastinate often don’t trust themselves to “fail successfully” and likewise won’t trust others. Taking action will put the right systems in place to eventually free you from your job. It will create a business that support you, your skills and your lifestyle.

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Entrepreneurial Coaches Help Shatter The Glass Ceiling

By Joyce

Shattering The Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling?

We’ve all heard of the corporate glass ceiling. Women and minorities hit it when they vie for the top executive spots in corporations. It’s transparent because many people think it doesn’t exist. It’s glass because many think it’s there but it’s hard to see. When people do break through it into the Vice President or CEO level it’s called “shattering” the glass ceiling.

There is a glass ceiling for entrepreneurs as well. Most experience it, few recognize it and even fewer break through and shatter it. Most entrepreneurs think it doesn’t exist but it does. It is probably the most challenging obstacle in advancement for the single business owner. The Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling is the point at which the individual can do no more than they have. There is no more time in a day or tasks to take on. Every entrepreneur hits this ceiling.

Why? Every entrepreneur starts, builds and maintains their business by themselves. There are no days off. There are no vacations. When not in the office, work doesn’t get done and productivity suffers. They have a job, not a business. Entrepreneurs may own the business but it owns them.

The glass ceiling differs from person to person. For some it may be 50,000 dollars a year, for others 400,000 dollars a year and others, 2 million dollars. The bottom line is, all reach a point where they cannot physically or mentally do any more. This is the Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling where profits max out.

In order to shatter the ceiling and expand a business, entrepreneurs have to take radical action. “Radical” action steps are action items outside the normal level of comfort, things that are against our true nature as an entrepreneur. These are things related to the nasty “h” word, “help.”

Entrepreneurs start their business by the shear will of force. They built it themselves and topped it out with their energy, focus and drive. They can’t go any higher. As a matter of fact, they are going to crash and burn, if they haven’t already, from sheer exhaustion.

The real skill in shattering the ceiling is in being willing to take on new, unfamiliar things. They will need help, hands and competent individuals to do the work. Yes, assistance.

The first step in assistance is understanding you need them. This is foreign for most entrepreneurs and unless you come to this conclusion, you will never shatter the ceiling. Second, getting help does not mean adding employees. In fact, that can contribute to the problem. Today the use of virtual assistants, VA’s can be very profitable and successful for the entrepreneur.

Third, VA’s can be carefully chosen, directed to specific tasks and produce results if approached in the right way, with correct planning and with the right firms that provide talent. Think about it, what will it take for you to break through the Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling? Will you crash and burn or get the assistance you need?

Is your Business Effective?

By Joyce

Is your business effective? 

How’s your business unfolding this year? Is your business strategy working for you in 2009?

Mine is. Its not easy right now, but there is a science to growing a buisness and making a profit this year.

We’ve crafted the science of business development over two decades of coaching professionals in all different industries, at all levels, all around the world. Do I look like I’m twenty?

If you answer “yes” I will love you but if you answer “No” I know you are very smart. We teach youThe Science of Success and any company, any entreprenuer can utilize them to create a culture of excellence, success and profits.

Instant profits and six figures in 90 days can go to h_ _ _ l. This is real business expertise for today, tomorrow and 10 years from now.

It is a journey, not a single destination. Nor is it empty promises.

As you educate your employees and staff members about The Science of Success you will see greater profitability, less turnover, greater teamwork, and a host of other benefits. Our entire development team and worldwide network of clients and professional partners have strived to make the science easy to understand and simple to use.

The three-step process to The Science of Success is:

Step 1. The Examination
Step 2. The Solution(s)
Step 3. The Implementation of Those Solutions

Surpised? You shouldn’t be. But most of you will be. Why?  Most of you think there might be a magic potion for breaking through to new levels of business. Well, there isn’t. But there are proven steps. We approach business like a doctor. And, just like a doctor, we would never present a solution without doing a thorough examination of you or your business, first.

Anyone who is presenting solutions without doing a thorough examination first is selling you something rather than seeking what’s best for you.

We do three steps for you:

Step 1. Complete an effective examination. This step may involve a simple, short series of questions, or it may entail a much more comprehensive, thorough examination. It’s really up to you. We’ll even ask you.

Step 2. Present a solution(s).
Clients often receive information on a basic, an intermediate, and an advanced plan for success based on Step 1, the examination. Which plan you pursue is your choice.

Step 3. Implement the best solution.
Some clients have a great sense of urgency and want to implement a solution immediately. Others take their time and ease into their new strategy. It is all up to you.

Will you take you business to the next level. Or, are you hitting the entreprenurial glass ceiling?