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Entrepreneur 4 questions for transformation By Scott Couchenour — Owner, Serving Strong Enterprises | www.biblicalleadership.com |Image courtesy:istock
2.What do I need to start doing?
What got you here won’t get you there. You want to learn and grow and become better, right?
Your learning and growth will mean that you have to start doing some actions you’re not used to taking. You may be uncomfortable doing them. They may seem awkward, putting you at risk of failure or ridicule.
Well, if you’re serious about it, let me share 4 questions and their respective keys that you’ll need to incorporate as part of your transformation. Let me first set the stage.
Actions
THE KEY is to make these new actions easy Every morning, you wake up. You get out of bed and do your morning routine. You do to do. Set up whatever tricks you need to make the new habits a part the things you do in the morning and that bleeds into the afternoon. of your life. You do the evening things. You get ready for bed and you go back to 3.What do I need to keep doing? sleep. A typical day. Your learning and growth won’t impact everything you do. Some acA typical day is made of a string of actions. You have them. I have tions will remain the same. For example, you’ll still need a morning them. Every person alive on the planet has them. When you think of routine. You’ll still need sleep. it, our existence is simply a pile of actions. THE KEYis to separate these from the other three groups of actions To learn, grow, and become better, you will have to go to the level of so you preserve their continued healthy contribution to your growth. actions. Your personal growth won’t happen on its own. It will require your active participation. Here are the four questions and keys 4.What do I need to change? that come into play:
1.What do I need to stop doing?
Your learning and growth will mean that some actions will need to continue but take on a different form. For example, if you read a couple pages a day and your transformation requires more reading, Your learning and growth will mean you will need to stop some acyou’ll need to step up your game. tions. The harmful ones are obvious. But it’s the actions that have worked for you in the past that are the hardest to stop. The old sayTHE KEYis to carve out the time for your mental, physical and emoing is, “What got you where you are today will not be where you tional energy to do things a little differently. want to go tomorrow.” Here’s the deal. Only the courageous commit to change and follow THE KEY is to make them hard to do. Self-imposed barriers and through. I believe you are courageous. How can I say that? I believe constraints so you don’t slip into old habits. everyone is designed to be courageous. Some people just choose to live a default life and not invest in changing and growing. You can tell if someone is like that when they say things like, “It is what it is” in a defeated tone.
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TT 144 | MAR 15th - 21st | 2022
