Another busy week here at Momentum; we truly believe you
should practice what you preach, so as well as preparing for our own
forthcoming planning day, we’re also going to attend a planning day event with
our own coach. People are occasionally
surprised to hear that we too use a coach, but when you work IN a business
every day, it is crucial that you remember to carve out the much needed time to
work ON the business. It’s also an
opportunity to have someone outside the business challenge you and push you
further than you would necessarily be able to push yourself. I’m a business owner too and, as someone who
advocates the benefits of coaching to my own clients, it would be pretty
obscure if I didn’t seek the benefits for myself!
Planning days are a great opportunity to meet with other
success minded business owners and work on in-building strategies to build
profits, better manage time, improve leadership skills and create a 90 day
plan. This is what we will work on with
our coach and what we work on with our clients too. As coaches, we get to work with some
fantastic people. We love to work with
business owners who are passionate and serious about their businesses and those
people who are interested in learning new ideas and seeing their business from
different perspectives in order to build their success. There really is nothing more rewarding than
meeting a business owner who is not getting what they want from their business
and being able to offer them the opportunity to change this.
On some of our promotional materials we use a quote from
Alan Lakein, “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can
do something about it now.” Whenever we
attend and hold a planning event like this, I think of this quotation. We’re all very good at thinking about our
futures as some long off, distant place where all our lofty dreams and
aspirations could come to fruition, but if we don’t plan for how this could be
a reality, how can we actually expect it to happen?
Planning in business (and in life) is such a powerful
tool. I’m looking forward to making our
own plans for the future this week and helping our clients plan for their
futures too.
If you’d like more information on a planning day event with
us, feel free to contact us.
