Who Are You Being in Your Business?

Who you choose to be in your business determines the level of ease and joy of running your business and the money you make.

Every entrepreneur has three personalities participating in creating and running their business: a Visionary, a Manager, and a Technician. The Visionary is the one who gets the big idea, creates the vision, drives the energy and fuels you with enthusiasm and faith. The Manager is that guy or girl in you who helps you make decisions on how to structure and run your business, how to manage your time and assets, what strategies to implement, who you need on your support team, etc. And the Technician is the one who does the actual work. And this work involves things that can only be done by you because there is no one else that could possibly do them for you or better than you, and things that you do but might as well delegate to someone else if you chose to, like bookkeeping, scheduling, web design, etc.

You need all three of these guys (or girls) in your business. All of them are important as they have separate and irreplaceable roles. But what happens in many businesses is that one of the roles becomes more dominant that is called for. If your Technician takes over, then the business will lack in vision and will not be managed properly. You will just show up and work and work and work, and you will not have much to show for it in the end. If your Visionary takes over, you will just dream and plan, and dream and plan, and you will talk and talk and talk about it, but you will not get to actually do it. And if your Manager takes over, you will just strategize, plan, organize, etc, but there will be no vision guiding you and no one to do the work.

So you see how important it is for all three of them to cooperate and just occasionally take over, only when the situation calls for it. All three should have a lively role in your business on daily basis. The Technician is obviously to do their work but they should be properly managed by the Manager on issues of time efficiency, organization, delegation, and profitability. The Manager should actively strategize all time and efforts and make sure the business is making money and reaching its goals, and that you, the owner, are happy and satisfied. And the Visionary should take a good look at least once a week and meet with the Manager and the Technician to make sure that your dreams are being fulfilled and your business is reaching its possibilities.

Today I invite you to ask yourself this question: Who am I being in my business? Am I allowing all three personalities to show up fully or is one of them working too hard? If you are not completely satisfied with how your business is doing, you might find good clues in your answer to this question. You can make a real difference in your business if you make a conscious effort to let all three actively and equally participate in your creation. Let your Visionary guide you, let your Manager plan and strategize, and give your Technician space to do the best they possibly can.

This week’s Business Wisdom was inspired by Michael Gerber’s book “E Myth Mastery”. M. Gerber introduced the concept of the three entities in business but he might have used different names for them. Anyway, the credit goes to him and his work. And I highly recommend his books.

Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching

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Could Recession Be Good For You?

I was recently talking to a life-long girlfriend of mine and we reflected how our greatest self-growth spurs happened in what we call “hard times”. I mean the times that felt uncertain, difficult, uncomfortable, when we didn’t know in what direction to turn, and when we felt we had to struggle with life. We reflected how if it weren’t for the hard times, we would not be where we are today. And we are in a good place. The hard times pushed us out of our comfort zones; they forced us to discover our strengths, capabilities, resourcefulness, courage, and resolution. We came out changed, with new perspectives and new understanding. So we thanked the hard times for giving us opportunities to discover ourselves.
In my conversations with clients and friends I hear growing concern about recession. Business owners worry if and how it might impact their business, if clients will be as ready to spend their money, if the industry they are in will survive recession, if they will survive. There seems to be a growing sense of insecurity and apprehension.
Knowing what I know about hard times, I’m not worried about recession. It will push some of us out of our comfort zones, it will make us adapt and find new ways of making money and maybe even force us into doing what we truly enjoy. It will teach us new things about our world and ourselves. We will come out wiser and with stronger trust in our own capabilities.
Today I invite you to open up to the gifts that recession might offer you. If you worry about not surviving in your industry, maybe it’s time to consider some big changes? If you worry about loosing some of your customers, maybe it’s time to think about expanding your sources of income by adding new products or services? Think how you and your business could blossom in the midst of recession. How will YOU adapt? How much wiser will YOU come out? Ask yourself these questions and if the answers are not showing up yet, don’t worry. I will quote after Andrea J. Lee: “Think of the questions you can’t answer yet as stimulants in your mind causing you to fire neurons you didn’t know you had. Like bits of sand in an oyster, those questions are the uncomfortable beginnings of new pearls of wisdom for you and your future”.
Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a FREE Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Action Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

What You Do For Yourself You Do For Everyone

Somewhere along the path of my self-growth I read a sentence: “What I do for myself I do for everyone”. It made me pause and think, and smile. Yeah, I thought, exactly. I wrote it on a piece of paper and I kept it in front of me for several weeks for it to sink in and do its magic.
The magic was that it brought me closer to the deep truth that it all REALLY starts with me. That whatever I want for the world (and I do want A LOT for the world), I must want for me first. That as much as I want others to be happy, prosperous, self-sufficient, evolved, free, aligned with who they are - I need to be that first. So I started consciously BEING that. And my immediate world became happier, more prosperous, more self-sufficient, more evolved, freer, more aligned. I mean my kids, my friends and family, my clients. My world and the people I surround myself with are very different comparing to, let’s say, ten years ago. And all that has shifted in the beginning was my mindset.
It really does start with you. Whatever you want for the world, for your children, your family, your clients, your vendors, and your business associates, grant that to yourself first. If you want the world to be less angry, embrace your own inner peace. If you want the world to be more understanding, understand first. Change it in you and you will see the Universe follow.
Today I invite you to spend a minute or two envisioning the world according to your desires. If you had the power to change the world to be more of… (fill in the blank) or less of…, what would it be? Then I invite you to pay close attention to how you are in all your life situations and become mindful of how you could possibly want to shift.
Change yourself and watch the world change around you.
Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Action Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html

Watch Your Language!

More and more entrepreneurs are waking up to the new and evolved ways of being in their business. We know there is a gentler, kinder way to serve the world, express who we are through what we do and how we make money. We are definitely moving away from the “testosterone driven”, fear-based ways of competing and marketing.

Yet the language we use in business, and especially in marketing, is still reflective of the old ways and at times it resembles the language of warfare. For example, we “target” our customers, we “launch campaigns”, we develop “strategies”, we “compete”, etc. I was recently paying closer attention to the language I use in my business and noticing how it affects my mindset and me. I decided to make some conscious decisions about how I talk.

How would YOUR business and marketing perspective change if you replaced the outdated vocabulary with new choices? Let’s try it. Instead of “targeting your market”, you could “attract perfect clients”, instead of “developing strategies”, you could “create a perfect plan”, instead of “launching campaigns” you could “create a plan for successful promotion”, instead of “ competing”, let’s try “coexisting”, instead of… OK, I let you have fun with it and come up with new language. If you come up with something cool or innovative or funny, please let me know and I’ll be sure to pass it around.

Today I invite you to watch your language, to be mindful and see how aligned it is with the way you want to run your business and your life. If you find that you need some adjustments, go for them and be creative.

Be well,
Margaret Moczkowski/Evolved Business Coach
Momentum Coaching

For all you entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed by lots of business ideas, plans, possibilities and crave focus and purposeful action, please help yourself to a free Business Action Plan Workbook I developed to help my clients wrap their minds around their projects, big and small. This tool will evolve you and your business to the next level. To get your free Business Action Plan Workbook please go to: http://www.momentumcoach.net/BusinessActionPlan.html