Success Concept - Trust
There are many people today seeking a life as an entrepreneur or as a business owner.
In my series of Success Concept articles, I've noted many elements that are imperative to achieving that ultimate goal of being successful.
Trust is one of those intangibles that must be learned, earned, and acted upon.
Trust can be your best friend or it can be your biggest, most destructive enemy.
You must find a way to trust others, and also yourself.
Without trust, you'll face many detours and road blocks along your journey, and most likely will never achieve all you set out to do.
You cannot do everything alone, or on your own.
Therefore, the option is that you must rely on others to assist you.
Finding the right person to trust to do what is in your best interest is not an easy task.
When hiring an accountant, your finances are guided by their advice.
A payroll service can be one of the best blessings, or can leave you with a multitude of back taxes to pay.
An HR professional is key to ensuring that you follow the labor laws and treat your employees in a lawful and fair manner.
Each of these professionals must be trusted beyond doubt so you can attend to the other aspects of your business.
A business coach or mentor is another key person, one with whom you will share all of your business and sometimes personal information - often you'll bare your soul to them.
Without a trusting relationship, you'll hold back and as a result, not receive the valuable guidance and assistance for which you are paying.
Finding the right advisors - ones you can trust - is essential as you grow your business.
With all of these people requiring your trust, there is still one more; the one who is the most important.
That person is you.
You must have total trust in yourself to achieve success.
If you doubt your decision-making process, you will begin to delay making timely choices.
If you doubt your knowledge, skills, and abilities, you will find that you hold back, thinking maybe there is more you need to learn, more you need to develop, more you need to think about.
This lack of trust in yourself will prevent you from moving forward.
Not trusting in yourself will leave a hole that cannot be filled by others.
Just like you will check before hiring others, check on yourself as well.
Determine your expertise, determine your abilities, and determine what your strengths are.
Then you will be able to trust your decisions, whether those decisions are who to hire, or what tasks and responsibilities will be yours.
Trust is a small word, with huge implications.
Lack of it can put a halt to all you want to achieve.
If you don't trust the professionals you've hired, you'll be double checking their work to the point you might as well be doing it yourself.
And if you don't trust yourself, you will most likely not have the faith it takes to move forward.
And that will most likely result in unrealized success.
In my series of Success Concept articles, I've noted many elements that are imperative to achieving that ultimate goal of being successful.
Trust is one of those intangibles that must be learned, earned, and acted upon.
Trust can be your best friend or it can be your biggest, most destructive enemy.
You must find a way to trust others, and also yourself.
Without trust, you'll face many detours and road blocks along your journey, and most likely will never achieve all you set out to do.
You cannot do everything alone, or on your own.
Therefore, the option is that you must rely on others to assist you.
Finding the right person to trust to do what is in your best interest is not an easy task.
When hiring an accountant, your finances are guided by their advice.
A payroll service can be one of the best blessings, or can leave you with a multitude of back taxes to pay.
An HR professional is key to ensuring that you follow the labor laws and treat your employees in a lawful and fair manner.
Each of these professionals must be trusted beyond doubt so you can attend to the other aspects of your business.
A business coach or mentor is another key person, one with whom you will share all of your business and sometimes personal information - often you'll bare your soul to them.
Without a trusting relationship, you'll hold back and as a result, not receive the valuable guidance and assistance for which you are paying.
Finding the right advisors - ones you can trust - is essential as you grow your business.
With all of these people requiring your trust, there is still one more; the one who is the most important.
That person is you.
You must have total trust in yourself to achieve success.
If you doubt your decision-making process, you will begin to delay making timely choices.
If you doubt your knowledge, skills, and abilities, you will find that you hold back, thinking maybe there is more you need to learn, more you need to develop, more you need to think about.
This lack of trust in yourself will prevent you from moving forward.
Not trusting in yourself will leave a hole that cannot be filled by others.
Just like you will check before hiring others, check on yourself as well.
Determine your expertise, determine your abilities, and determine what your strengths are.
Then you will be able to trust your decisions, whether those decisions are who to hire, or what tasks and responsibilities will be yours.
Trust is a small word, with huge implications.
Lack of it can put a halt to all you want to achieve.
If you don't trust the professionals you've hired, you'll be double checking their work to the point you might as well be doing it yourself.
And if you don't trust yourself, you will most likely not have the faith it takes to move forward.
And that will most likely result in unrealized success.
