How are you progressing with goals you set yourself this year?Have you made a start? Or are you still thinking about it or caught very popular "I'm too busy" epidemic?
Mary's Story Mary runs her own publishing company employing 5 people. She is married with two teenagers.
When I first met Mary she told me how stressed out she was trying to juggle work and home effectively.
Her business although surviving (just) could have achieved major growth except for one major factor… Mary. She was very disorganised and ran her business that way.
Mary was always complaining about pressures of running her business and having a life. I suggested to her that by having personal coaching she would dramatically improve her situation…guaranteed, providing she actioned ideas, insights and solutions she would gain through process.
She's A 'Gunna' Mary was a 'gunna'. She was 'gunna' do this and 'gunna' do that. Unfortunately all she can and still does do is talk about it. She won't make a decision. Money wasn't issue, after all she had invested thousands of dollars attending an American guru's week long "life changing" bootcamp. She thought that would be her "magic lifechanging pill". Unfortunately Mary did not action what she had learned. She got caught up in her chaotic life immediately on her return.
It's interesting to note that many people believe that more they spend on some of these seminars, better results will be.
What they forget to factor into equation is themselves.
The Latest Crisis I have spoken with her a few times and suggested best course of action to take and she always responds with "not right now, I have this to do and that to do (and everything else to do)". Mary always procrastinates and says to call her back in a few weeks' time when current major crisis should be over.
One month her database was completely wiped out. It had mistakenly been deleted by a temporary assistant she had hired. Of course there was no back up. It took many hours to reproduce it.
Mary had to hire an extra person for next month to establish a new database. In real terms this latest crisis cost her business thousands of dollars in lost productivity, not to mention effect it had on her stress levels.