Commitment to Small Business Results

Commitment to Small Business Results
Did you know that only 3% of the entire population commits to completing a plan?

Did you know that it takes a special individual to follow through and succeed?

This takes emotional intelligence – knowing yourself, choosing yourself, and giving yourself. It also takes commitment & resiliency – the determination to do your best and steadfastly refuse to give up in the face of obstacles.

This determination is the ability to recognize and build your strengths, and to use them to create and embrace a powerful and successful business. It is taking charge of your emotions, behavior, and learning. It is caring about the results and understanding how your commitment impacts behavior, choice, and outcome.

This will mean the difference between failure and success; the difference between being stuck and being in the process.

The following are suggestions for keeping to your commitments:

  • Passion: get in touch with what you want, what you really want, personally, professionally, and physically.

  • Purpose: think about who you are and what you do, and how it makes you feel fully alive and how it inspires and engages others. Try to connect your passion with your vision and attitude. Find someone who will hold you accountable.

  • Persistence: your emotional intelligence will give you the skills to deal with obstacles and disappointment and manage your feelings as you move toward your results.

The combination of a strong positive commitment to your business and what you want as an outcome serves as a foundation that greatly affects your results, customers, employees, and the entire business. Growth, development, and success mean moving beyond intention; it is moving to action. Commitment makes the impossible possible! It is the launch pad from which all significant change takes place. It is passion, purpose and persistence that will move us toward peak performance!

I encourage you to commit to commitment and watch your business soar!

Shelly Berman-Rubera, President of Small Business Results, Newton, MA, is a consultant and speaker, working with small business owners as a resource for creative and contemporary ideas to grow businesses.

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