How can you do a better job of reaching your full potential as a business owner? How can you achieve more, do it faster, and make fewer mistakes? We’re all looking for that edge, that competitive advantage that will equip you to take a leadership position in your chosen niche. As a matter of fact, it’s your expertise in your chosen niche that can often be the biggest stumbling block.

As busy business owners, we’re often too close to the problem to clearly see the solution. It’s just an unavoidable natural result of being an expert in your niche. I experience it myself, and I see it with our business coaching clients from cultures all around the world.

And on top of that — when you’re passionate about what you do, it’s tough to maintain a clear perspective as your life seamlessly blends with your work.

What you’ll learn in this three-part article series

The good news is that there are solutions that successful business owners are already using to overcome this challenge. And there is one secret weapon you can use to quickly apply those same solutions to take yourself to higher levels of performance, profits and personal fulfillment. (Yes, you can have all three…. really!)

In this article series you’ll learn what the secret weapon is, and how you can use it to put yourself on the fast-track to lasting success.

But before we do that, it’s critical that you to take at least 10 to 5-minutes to take real hard look back at the last 12-months.

Print this post out and ask yourself …

- Could you have better systems in your company, systems that help run the business whether you’re there or not?

- Can you take off a month or more and still have your business hum along without you?

- Could you have spent more time growing your business, and less time letting your business run you and your life?

- Could you have done a better job identifying under utilized resources and optimizing the top profit centers already in your company?

- Could you have attracted more of your “ideal client” instead of just taking any client who walked through the door?

- Could you have done a better job turning your new clients into raving fans - for life?

- Could you have hired or motivated your team a little better? Hired employees that would be “round pegs” in “round holes”?

Give these questions some serious thought, then in part two we’ll take a look at what may be getting in the way, and how you can remove that barrier to exponential growth.

John-Paul Micek is known as the “Click-and-Mortar Business Coach” by business owners around the world thanks to members of the Business Owners Coaching Club. He’s a weekly columnist for the business section of the Honoulu Star Bulletin, and a managing partner with the international small business development company RPM Success Group Inc.

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