Last month, we had a few people over for dinner. On our annual goals for 2025, we plan to have a dinner party once a month, so this fulfilled our April goal.
We invited our nutritionist Yvonne and her husband Bijan, along with another couple.
During dinner, it wasn’t a surprise that the conversation turned to Yvonne’s methodology and the dramatic success that my husband Jack has had following her fitness and diet regime. In 9 months, Jack’s body fat dropped from 34% to 19% and he lost 28 lbs. of fat and gained 11 lbs. of muscle (net weight loss of 17 lbs.).
As with many of us, our friends were curious about what were the biggest obstacles to success if a person wants to get rid of belly fat and excess weight.
Yvonne nonchalantly said, “Impatience and Discipline”.
Yvonne said that many people get discouraged when they don’t see dramatic results immediately or consistently. And because it’s hard to change habits, committing to having the discipline to follow a scientifically proven methodology, week after week, for almost a year takes discipline and commitment.
After our dinner was over and I was reflecting on our conversation, I realized that those two obstacles, impatience and discipline, are the same most business owners face when wanting to grow their businesses.
You can’t be impatient when recruiting and hiring salespeople to enable you to meet your revenue and profit goals. Hiring the first candidate is not usually the wisest choice.
It takes discipline to develop a recruiting process and then an onboarding process. These processes both take time, time that you may rationalize you don’t have.
It takes discipline to set aside the time to create a business plan and you cannot be impatient when communicating your plan to everyone on your team, so they are aligned and on board.
One of my favorite sayings is “how you do anything is how you do everything.” When you are in a challenging situation, whether you are trying to get in better physical shape, or want to grow your business, it’s worth it to reflect on how you do everything in your life.
Where do you score on the impatience scale? And how about in the area of self-discipline?
Perhaps doing some self-reflection, may give you some new ideas on how to make the progress you want to make.
Onward and Upward,
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