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Written by: Steve WilkinghoffArticle Overview: Are you feeling the need to make some major changes in your business to compete an thrive, but feel paralyzed by the challenge of making larges changes? Resist that temptation! The most effective way to get control of your business and the financial results it gives you isn't by making major changes. The most effective way is to make small changes that really matter.
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Are YOU A Being A
There was a short story written quite some
time ago called, “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”. It’s a very entertaining short story, but
it’s also got some lessons for business owners.
The story follows the main character,
Walter Mitty, through a day mundane errands in town. You can just feel the boredom settling on
him.
As he works through his errands, we are
taken inside his mind several times. And
what’s going on there is anything but boring.
In one scene, Mitty imagines himself as the
fearless, calm Commander of a navy vessel in the worst storm ever. As his crew panics and wonders what to do,
his calm bravery guides them through the dangerous situation.
Next, he envisions himself as a skilled
surgeon who single-handedly fixes a crucial piece of machinery in the operating
room. Then he successfully steps in when
the world-famous specialists can no longer save the patient.
Then Mitty imagines being a menacing, yet
calm killer on trial in a courtroom.
Finally, he sees himself as a fearless,
hard-drinking bomber pilot. While others
around him panic, he decides he will fly the bomber alone through the dangerous
enemy skies to take out an ammunition dump to stop the artillery barrage that’s
threatening his own men.
The story is quite humorous.
But there’s a little sadness in it too. Walter was someone who always envisioned
being someone else. And while he longed
to live a greater life, he never actually attempted to make any changes to
improve his real life..
And that’s the same as a lot of business
owners.
Many times business owners feel like they need to
try something radically different, or make some significant changes to improve
their business and make more money. And the sheer size of
those perceived changes intimidates them to the point if not even trying. They simply stay stuck in the rut of doing
the same old things, the same old way.
Imagining a better business all the
while they remain stuck in their reality.
But the best way to make any type of
improvement in any business is to make a series of small, focused changes. Small changes, to the proper problem areas, usually
are what create huge increases in business performance.
So if there’s a little bit of Walter Mitty
in your business, get rid of that attitude.
Stop just continually imagining a better
business.
And start making some small changes that
will start you and your business down the trail to actually creating a better
business.
Being a Walter Mitty wastes a lot of
effort, talent, and money. And it never
really results in any changes or improvements.
It can be very demoralizing.
It’s no coincidence that at the end of the
story, Walter Mitty is imagining himself in front of a firing squad, about to
be executed.
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