THE THREE KEYS TO NAILING CONSISTENT BEHAVIOURS! By David Watts
Maintaining your motivation is one the biggest struggles you will face as a salon owner, you generally know what you want to achieve yet struggle to execute consistently. How you show up for yourself is how you will show up for your team and one of the secrets to showing up is consistent behaviour. When you decide to implement something new in your business, it is fresh and exciting, something you know is going make a difference, unfortunately the shine wears off, and this new action often gets neglected. Being consistent with your actions is not as straight forward as it seems, we are programmed to follow past decisions and behaviours. Let’s put this in perspective, it is a bit like people setting new year’s resolutions to go to the gym four times per week. You may have seen it yourself, in January (the honeymoon phase) the gym is chockers day in and out, but then the gym traffic starts to slow as people return to their previous learned behaviours. Finding motivation from thin air is almost impossible, it is like searching for a needle in a haystack. There are three keys to unlocking your potential when it comes to nailing consistent behaviours. 100
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One - Find Your Purpose
You need to know WHY you do what you do every single day. Why you are in business, why you are in the industry, why you turn up every single day. Without understanding this you could be walking through life on autopilot, with a blind fold on, simply going through the motions to get to the end of the day. Doing things that are heart driven, things that have an impact on your life or those around you will always be easier to maintain, they will generally keep you excited and motivated. I can comfortably say to you that as a business owner it is critical you uncover what your purpose is, this will help you maintain direction. My business journey changed the day I sat an uncovered my true purpose, it cleared the brain fog I was experiencing and enabled me to start having an impact again. It allowed me to serve with purpose and more importantly to be happy with the actions I was taking and truly
understand the activities I needed to complete. Your purpose needs to be authentic, it’s not about your goals or your services, it must be something that inspires you. When you are in alignment with your why it is easier to attract what you desire but to also stay motivated to complete the tasks you need to keep doing.
Two - Share the Love
When you share something with others, you are more likely to stay constant in your behaviours. It creates a particular type of social pressure that will see you more likely to follow through. While being inconsistent creates an amount of guilt for yourself, when you share with others you up the ante and are more likely to follow through. You have access to a network of people who can support you, although who you share with is important, it should be someone you look up to or respect. If you don’t care about the opinion of the person, then you are less likely to show a willingness to commit.
