As coach and team parent for our kids’ sports teams, we learn quite a bit about parents and politics — If you have kids in youth sports, you know what I mean!
This week some parents’ behavior (not showing up at all or showing up really late to practice) got me thinking about business and all the opportunities for learning, success, and sales that get missed.
Why do you miss these opportunities?
- You don’t take action
- You don’t show up
Often, an opportunity to create success is right in front of you and you miss out simply because you don’t take action — or you think, “I’ll do it or follow up on that later” and then forget all about it.
Or you choose not to attend a networking event, seminar, conference, webinar, or teleclass because you’re too busy — but then you miss opportunities to learn new strategies for success and meet others who could help catapult your business forward.
This week I want you to keep your eyes open for new opportunities, or even those that have been there for a while and take some action! Register for an event, follow up with a lead, reach out to a JV partner, or buy that product that could improve your marketing results.
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Jennifer,
Great points about opportunities being all around us and the need to take action. So often it is the fear of success, not the fear of failure, that holds us back.
Push through the fear, show up, and keep moving forward.
Thank you for a wonderful post.
Marie – I agree! It’s almost as if we’re walking around with selective success blinders on sometimes :)
Love it!
I really like the saying “Ready, Fire, Aim”. I forget who coined it. It forces us to take action before we even know what hit us. It takes out all that time we spend second-guessing ourselves and setting ourselves up for failure.
Much success,
John Wade
John – You’re right. Fear can cause us to delay action in so many different ways. Some plan, to make a plan, to have a plan, to then take action :) Or they will keep themselves busy with tasks to feel like they are taking action … but they’re doing the wrong tasks!