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What do you need to make your vision a reality?

June 24, 2021January 27, 2020 by Michelle Mitchell

This month we’ve been talking about vision and where you see yourself and your business in the future. We talked about creating your ideal day. What it looks like, what it feels like. Now we need to take the vision and start developing the action steps needed to make it a reality.

Too often, business owners or entrepreneurs skip over this step. They focus on the pricing strategy or how to get more sales. But if you don’t have an action plan of what your future looks like and the steps needed to get there, you will end up aiming in the wrong direction. Or if you do aim in the right direction, you might miss your target.

The first step in your action plan should be determining who you need to be in your business. What do you need to be doing today, right now, to become the person you need to be in the future? You need to be willing to step outside your comfort zone. You need to be willing to seek the advice of others to gain the resources you need.

Let’s face it; you don’t know everything you need to know to run a business – a profitable business. Seeking out the expertise of those who have been where you are and have become experts is important. You may be very good at what you do, at what service you provide, but no one has trained and prepared you for being a business owner. And not just a business owner, but the CEO of your business.

So think about what resources you need. Do you need help with marketing and strategy? Do you need assistance with the administrative side of your business? Maybe you need help in getting better at sales. There are a lot of soft skills business owners need to develop in order to produce the extraordinary result you desire. There are resources available to help you develop and strengthen those skills.

Ask yourself this: In order to get the extraordinary results I want in my business, what do I need? What actionable steps can I take, what resources can I tap into? Write down your plan and start taking action!

If you’d like help in coming up with your vision, drafting your 5-year vision, and developing the action steps needed to get there, let’s chat! I’d love to help you realize your vision and create extraordinary results!

Vision Is Different Than Goals

June 24, 2021January 9, 2020 by Michelle Mitchell

Happy New Year! And welcome to a new decade! Are you excited about what this new year will bring? Excited about where your business is going? I know I am! Our theme this month is vision. In order for 2020 to be an extraordinary year, you need to have a vision.

Your vision is where you want to go, where you want to be in the future. A path that helps you to see the steps you need to take to get to your desired destination. But vision is different than goals.

Goals are simply milestones of the action steps you need to take to make your vision a reality. Your daily activities help get you to your goals, but it’s your vision that guides your path.

Remember 2019? When you didn’t have enough clients? Or your engagements weren’t profitable? Or you charged by the hour and when the client saw the bill they freaked out? Don’t let this happen in 2020! Create the vision, then set the goal and create action towards it.

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Top 3 Steps for Extraordinary Results for 2020!

December 31, 2019 by Michelle Mitchell

Today I want to reflect a little on what I’ve been talking about for the last several months on my Facebook Live. If you didn’t catch them live, watch the replays here: https://www.facebook.com/MitchellConsulting/

Most entrepreneurs are seeking out strategies that will help build their business faster. And yes, having strategies in business does make an impact. But what brings extraordinary results are the soft skills you develop along the way. Once you dig in and figure these out, it’s a game-changer for your business. Below are a few of the soft skills that I have talked about recently.

I’ve talked a lot about creating extraordinary results and what it takes in order for you to get extraordinary results. Practical things you can do to grow your business.

The three top ways to get those extraordinary results:

Focus
Priorities
Streamline & Automate

FOCUS

“Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus” — Gary W. Keller

So how does focus help you get extraordinary results? What should you be focusing on?

The first thing is you need to focus on is your WHY. Finding your WHY and your true passion for being in business is key to being in business, and key to being successful in business!

“He who has a why can endure any how.” — Frederick Nietzsche

There are a lot of reasons people start a business or become entrepreneurs. Creative independence, personal satisfaction, financial autonomy, the list can go on. What is it that drives you? If you’re not 100% committed to your vision or making it a reality, you won’t be passionate enough to stick with it in your business to weather the growing pains.

Being in business is hard. Let’s not sugar-coat it. Maybe you’re having a challenging week, or working with a difficult client or your revenue just isn’t where you need (or want!) it to be. And maybe some days you just don’t even feel like showing up in your business.

When those challenging, hard, ugly days pop up (and trust me, if they haven’t yet…they will at some point), knowing your WHY can really fuel you to get through those difficult times.

Do you know your WHY? Is it clear and strong? If not, take some time and really reflect on why you’re in business. Your WHY is your driving force and your main focus.

PRIORITIES

Once you have your WHY in focus, the next step is determining what’s the priority of your business.

Right off the bat, most people might say income. They would say their priority is income-driven. But let me ask you this: why are you income-driven? Why do you need that income? What purpose is that income going to fuel?

If you can’t answer those questions, your priority for being in business isn’t income-driven.

For other people, it’s about impact. You want to help people. With your service or your product or your coaching.

When you focus on others that’s where the magic is.

The simple truth is the more you help someone else, the more you help yourself.

For example, if I’m helping you grow your business — I’m automatically growing mine.
If I’m helping you develop a relationship with your family – you’re making your family stronger and the world a better place.
If I’m helping you with your accounting and teaching you how to manage money – then we have one more person that’s financially responsible in this world.

Determining and being clear on what your priority is for being in business will help you attract the right client, develop the right rate or packages, and provide the extraordinary service you want to provide.

STREAMLINE & AUTOMATE

Definition: Streamline – to improve the efficiency of a process, business or organization by simplifying or eliminating unnecessary steps, using modernizing techniques, or taking other approaches.

Once you’re clear on your WHY and your priority for your business, what steps are you taking to accomplish your WHY and fuel your priority?

Creating a streamlined simple approach to the daily activities in your business is something that most people don’t think about nor can they see. But, when you know what the end result should look like, you can reverse engineer the process.

The final step to producing extraordinary results is to streamline & automate the daily activities and things that are grounded on your WHY & priorities.

Streamlining and automating your business for cost efficiencies is necessary to growing and scaling your business. The more efficiencies you build your business, the less time it takes you or a team member to do something, creates profit. You create profit for your business while creating and delivering results for your client in a short period of time.

“Action expresses priorities” – Mahatma Gandhi

Streamline and automate your business and watch your profit margins go up!

What types of things should you be streamlining? Great question!

Here are a few suggestions:

Checking your email.
- Being in your email box all day is not going to help you build your business. unless you’re closing sales or engaging with potential clients. It’s just busywork.
- Set up dedicated time (maybe first thing in the morning and at the close of business) to check your email.
- Set up folders and labels to automate your inbox so you can focus on what’s most important first.
Client onboarding / invoicing
- Instead of manually sending an email with your contract, terms or invoices, use a platform or software (17Hats, Dubsado, etc.) for your client management system.

Start today to streamline and automate as many of the daily tasks you do in your business. The more you can streamline and automate, the more time you have for showing up IN your business. Your non-client time should be spent talking to people, creating relationships, engaging with your prospective clients or current clients.

So what is your Why? And why is it driving you?

What’s your business priority?

And what are you doing in your business daily that you are making a priority that could (no…SHOULD!) be streamlined or automated?

If you would like help finding your WHY, discovering your priority, or help to automate your business or if you’re ready to get EXTRAORDINARY results in your business, I’d love to chat with you. I’m passionate about helping female entrepreneurs turn their passions to profit.

Schedule a FREE consultation here!

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You Have Choices

October 15, 2019 by Michelle Mitchell

Let’s talk about choices.

Being in business for myself has given me a lot of choices over the years. And you will have a lot of choices in your business as well.

First, just know that just because you make a choice at one period in your life, it doesn’t mean you have to continue with that choice if it’s no longer working for you.

If you were still working in corporate America and you want to jump out on your own but you haven’t decided that you can take that leap yet, you CAN make a choice. You can decide that “Yeah, this is something I really want to do”.

I’ve talked about this before – people should do what they love and they should work with people who love what they do. Just to have that choice as an entrepreneur has been so amazing and so empowering to me that I believe that everyone that wants to tackle that endeavor should do it for themselves as well.

You will never know unless you try.

So just because you signed up for corporate America or you started a business that all of a sudden now you know doesn’t fit your lifestyle, it doesn’t mean you have to stay there. Don’t think you have to be stuck where you are because you don’t!

You always have a choice.

You always have a choice to choose something different. Something that’s going to make you happy, make you joyful, and that you’re going to love.

Even if you have become an entrepreneur and you feel like you’re stuck because you’re not making enough money or you don’t have enough clients, that doesn’t mean you have to stay in that place either.

>> You can discover how to get more clients.

>> You can discover how to target your ideal customer.

>> You can discover how you want to show up and deliver the services that you provide to your customers so you don’t have to be stuck in any place because you always have a choice.

And it’s always up to you to make that decision. You don’t have to wait for anybody else to give you permission.

You don’t need permission. You can just do it. You can just do it just because you want to and forget about what other people say because, ultimately, this is your life, and you’re going to live your life.

Nobody else has to live it for you. Nobody else has to go to that job every day. Nobody else has to talk to that client every day. Nobody else has to do it.

It’s often difficult for people to make a change. But if you take ownership of what you do and who you are, making a change will become easy because you’re doing what you want.

So if you’re stuck in a situation where you know things are not working for you – decide to be different, decide to make a change. Decide that you’re going to live your life at its highest level and not for anyone else.

I believe that you should just do what you love and you’re never stuck in any situation that you’re in. You always have options. So look at your options. What are they? Analyze them and do the pros and cons. Make a list. Why do I want to make a change? You just need to sit down and think about what those options are.

And a lot of times, you may need to get help in thinking about, or thinking through, what options you have available. Because a lot of times you’re so close to the situation that you don’t see what the other possibilities could be.

So I encourage you today to seek out the advice of counsel, which may be a friend, a family member, a business buddy. It may be someone already in your life, but if you don’t have that person in your life find one! Find someone to help you discover what your passions are, what you love to do because it is worth it to have clarity in what you want and what you want to do so that you can live a happy, joyful life instead of one of dread and regret.

If you need someone outside of the people who know you, maybe it’s time to discover if having a coach will help. Coaches are objective and can see the holes that you may not be able to see because you are too close to the situation. I would love to chat with you. Schedule your free session today @ passiontoprofitsession.com