How to Create Breakthroughs in Life and Business
Most people, when they feel stuck, just work harder.
But that’s almost never the right approach. The more “savvy” folks would rush with advice to “work smarter”, but that’s usually not the right move neither.
Let me illustrate this. Let’s say you want to dig a hole.
Working harder would be just putting your back into it and shoveling harder and longer than you did before.
Working smarter would be getting a few folks to help you. Maybe you could get a backhoe – now you’re really working smart!
BUT – those two options won’t get you ahead if you’re digging your hole in the wrong place!
The solution is gaining perspective.Â
Gaining perspective allows you to work right – do the right things, the right way, at the right time and in the right place!
How does this translate to growing a business?
We often tell ourselves “if I just work a few more hours”… or “I just need a few more tools to automate some things”…
But, these things typically only create a minimum incremental change. Because doing more of what got you here, won’t make any major difference!
If you don’t get the results you want you first spend a weekend or two (or a few months) just working harder to get the result you want.
Eventually you realize that’s not getting you anywhere so you invest in a few courses. Learn a few techniques.
It helps a little (because you’re now working smarter), but it’s still not it!
To create a breakthrough you need a new perspective. You need to see the bigger picture first.
For example, there are four stages of entrepreneurial growth. They are: Newbie, Start-Up (Minor League), Rev-Up (Major League) and Scale-Up (Superstars).
Most people mistakenly believe they are at the Superstar stage and try to use strategies that they see others use, but they don’t get the same results. Because in reality, most people are at the Newbie and Minor League stage.
Knowing that there are four stages, what each stage looks like, where you are, and how to get to the next stage is the business version of “working right” – having perspective and doing the right things.
