Entrepreneur support by Helen Williams, Helping Entrepreneurs Win
Our columnist says invest in yourself to boost your entrepreneurial journey
I often talk about why it is crucial for entrepreneurs to invest in themselves in my workshops, as well as my columns for unLTD.
For this edition I am exploring how a little outside help by hiring a coach can assist in your entrepreneurial journey – and help put #youfirst.
Here are the top 5 benefits:
Improve and strengthen your mindset
Mindset is the positive thought processes structured and ingrained in your belief process and conscious mind to get you to where you want to be. With a positive mindset, you can’t and won’t be influenced by anything else. You have your eye on your goals and have a full understanding of your requirements of what it takes to get there and what kind of person you need to become.
Challenge and push your boundaries
Indecision and uncertainty are often dictated by fear – fear of the unknown. It is unfamiliar territory that goes against the grain of almost everyone around us in our current social, family and professional circle. Everything we have known, everything we have ever been taught and conditioned into thinking is now being questioned by our very own mind as we search for a better way of providing income and security to ourselves and our families. You will smash through boundaries/barriers to start creating new scenarios that then become your own reality.
Create discipline and application
There will always be sacrifice when application and discipline are involved. Lack of discipline suggests unruliness and advantages of boundaries, and this is what we cannot afford to allow to happen in our lives and businesses. Discipline and application are crucial to your success and you will work on numerous strategies to ensure this is personal to you and consistent towards your goals.
Ongoing support and accountability
If you are held accountable to something/someone, you are more likely than not to deliver. If you set a plan with your coach, you have set expectations around completing the tasks that are going to get you closer to your goals. A coach is a third party disassociated from your business who can hold you responsible for the actions and results of your business model and plans. Supportive yet assertive is usually a good balance in order to gain the results you want from the equation.
Improve health and fitness focus
This is a non-negotiable rule! This is due to the underpinning benefit that your health and fitness has in relation to all the above. This is left last deliberately but is, in fact, the most crucial piece of the puzzle in to auctioning your coachable areas. It is also an area which entrepreneurs either love or hate. But that’s the point! As an entrepreneur you have to complete tasks you don’t want to do, overcome problems you didn’t want to be faced with. Your overall health will become your friend not your foe.
Remember – #youfirst.
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