This post welcomes and is dedicated to:
- Your business successes
- Small business anecdotes
- Lessons learned
- Unfortunate events
- Unofficial AMAs
- Links to outstanding educational materials (with explanations and/or an extract of the content)
In this post, share your small business experience, successes, failures, AMAs, and lessons learned. Week of December 9, 2019 /r/smallbusiness is one of a very few subs where people can ask questions about operating their small business. To let that happen the main sub is dedicated to answering questions about subscriber’s own small businesses.
Many people also want to talk about things which are not specific questions about their own business. We don’t want to disappoint those subscribers and provide this post as a place to share that content without overwhelming specific and often less popular simple questions.
This isn’t a license to spam the thread. Business promotion and free giveaways are welcome only in the Promote Your Business thread. Thinly-veiled website or video promoting posts will be removed as blogspam.
Discussion of this policy and the purpose of the sub is welcome at https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/ana6hg/psa_welcome_to_rsmallbusiness_we_are_dedicated_to/
10X RULE
Have you heard of the 10X rule?
Grant Cardone designed this 10X Rule to establish the standard for business or any kind of venture in life. You need to anticipate certain parameters in your life to see the success that you desire, that you want to see. Not only does it involve assessing the level of effort necessary to realize a goal, it also includes adjusting your thinking so that you can dare to dream at leavels previously unimaginable.
I highly recommend that you consider where you are at, and what it actually realistically, practically takes to achieve such goals. Business requires certain things to thrive and to survive. You as the owner need to understand your role. You nourish the business. You give it what it needs to stay alive. But what does your business need to stay alive? Yes that is the question. What does your business NEED? Find that answer. embrace that answer. Then start taking action.
Your ability to discover that answer will allow you to see things from the correct perspective. What is interesting is the expectation we set when going into something versus the expectation that is set by someone who has done what have already done. Would you take advice from someone who has what you want? Would you be willing to follow the counsel and direction they give you? Would you doubt that they have what you need to be successful?
Principally speaking, whatever you think your trajectory for your business is, 10x it. If you want to help 10 clients, shoot for 100. because now, you will inherently accomplish that 10 regardless. And there’s no doubt about it if you shoot high enough. One of the biggest reasons that most businesses don’t thrive is because the owner doesn’t imagine big enough for him/herself as the owner, the one providin the nourishment.
Now am i saying that you need to sleep 1 hour every night and work every other hour of the day? absolutely not. what i AM saying is that if you want your business to be successful and if you want to be successful, you gotta see through the lens of success, not what you want to see necessarily.
Now head to your drawing board, and go crush the game.