Breakthroughs Are Often Disguised as Breakdowns

If your whole world tipped on it’s axis 3 degrees, what would you do?

What if your whole world dried up and blew away?

Welcome to December, 2008 for me!

In the last 2 weeks, my entire upline at my primary company was dismissed due to breach of contract – the problem? Recruiting downline members into a new biz op using genealogy lists while they were still associated with my company.

We lost 6 Director-level leaders in our state which could be an incredible blow to my business.
Essentially, I am “leaderless”.
But honestly, I’m dancing in the streets.
The dead weight is finally gone. YAHOO!

Then I got word that a coaching client was now without a direct sales company because they’re closing at the end of the month.
She’s also dancing in the streets.

Why?
Because we’re both using the concepts of personal branding to grow our reach even in hat would seem like hard times.

But also, because we recognize that BIG Breakthroughs are often disguised as breakdowns.

You know:
Whenever God closes a door…

That’s TRUE even more now than ever before. The problem most of us have is that we’re too busy looking at the closed door – and knocking on it – that we don’t hear or see the window open.

Don’t keep staring at a closed door – look for a window!

What’s happening for me? Because of the recent changes, I now have more opportunities to create a name for myself in this area – lead training and grow a new culture that doesn’t include dead weight.

Plus my new coaching system – Build a Better Customer is slated for release in early 2009 – and having the ability to devote my time to helping others create teh same level of freedom just jumped incrementally.

Can you say excited?
December really came in like a lion for me – and it seemed to be NOT in a good way. But when I stopped staring at a closed door (which didn’t last long, I’ll admit), The big gaping picture window sure looked inviting.

Where’s your window?

Dave Lakhani, Small Business, The BIG "R"

It must be that time of year, where I have time to read ther’s blogs and think hard about them. Here’s another post, this time, in respnse to Dave Lakhani’s post regarding the current economic trends – you know, the recession – and how it affects small business.
This is the revised, expanded edition:

Bravo Dave!
It is true that you can set yourself up for failure by creating a failure oriented mindset – that is, believing that you’re doomed to fail just because the economy sucks.

But you are essentially sticking your head in the sand – leaving your butt ripe for kickin’ – if you put all your eggs in the “mindset” basket.

And I teach on mindset, so this is critical.
Whether you think you can or can’t is only part of the equation. If you think you can’t, you’ve given up before you’ve even seen the equation. Thinking you can, is the first step – but not the only step.

The Little Engine that Could (i.e. small business) can’t just say “I Think I Can”. You have to keep moving down the track. Heck, you have to be ON the track in the first place. You also have to know where that track is heading, or you could end up on a one-way path to nowhere fast.

You can’t just think positive thoughts, or wish something away. YOU MUST TAKE ACTION, PLAN AND PREPARE for success.

To do otherwise is what got us in this mess in the first place.

The people that are taking action now are the Carnegies and Rockefellers of this century. Thse are people that saw the recession of their day for what it was, and capitalized on it, by making a plan and taking action – when others around them were wallowing in self-defeatism and failure oriented mindset. But these movers and shakers aren’t ignoring the fact that there’s a recession going on in full swing – they’re taking advantage of it, and making swift plans for massive action NOW.

So yeah, you can do something about the recession by looking forward, and even by creating a positive oriented mindset – but mindset alone doesn’t change what’s REALLY happening in the world around us.

The Physics scholars of yore got it right: and object at rest tends to stay at rest, and object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force.

It’s action that makes all the difference – regardless of your mindset.