Epiphany Essentials: TAKE CHARGE TUESDAYS ~ CONSISTENCY

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

TAKE CHARGE TUESDAYS ~ CONSISTENCY

Consistency is the key to success with ANYTHING. Think about this, if your child only went to school 1 day a week or 1 week out of the month, they would more than likely fall behind in school, miss a lot of test and quizzes as well as valuable time with their peers. If you home school your children and you only taught them 1 day a week, their learning, retention, and abilities would be stifled. Why? Because that way of teaching and learning is inconsistent.

Many made New Years Resolutions to lose weight. However, if they did not resolve to eat right and be active more so than not, their goals are in vein. Why? Because weight loss, staying fit and active, requires a consistent effort of eating healthy foods and exercising.

We cannot think of anything in life that doesn't require consistency for success and mastery, the same goes for having a successful, thriving business. Let's take for instance our blog, we have committed to providing choice contact throughout the week. If we decided to skip a week here or there, are readers would not be assured that when they log on, on Monday's they will receive a fresh dose of Mindset & Motivational information.

Your business requires consistency, that consistency is needed because it is tied to the profits of your business as well. We recently participated in a webinar facilitated by Christine Kane called Cracking the Cash Flow Code. Christine mentioned two things that we would like to share with you involving business and making money with your business.

Money likes systems and money likes consistency! If you do not have set systems in place for your business, if you do things here and there or willy nilly as they used to say, then those are the results you will have willy nilly, here and there success. You get what you put out there. If you are not consistent with your business, your profits from your business will be inconsistent as well!

Hmmm.....something to think about eh? Now some may be reading this and saying I am just getting started on my business. This still applies as I will ask, what are you consistently doing daily to bring you closer to your goals for your business to be successful and up and running? If you are already in business are you being consistent? Are you always open on time, are you marketing and branding your business regularly, or are you simply expecting a financial windfall to come rushing into your bank account simply because the sign now reads Open for Business?

Be honest with yourself, are you putting in a consistent effort to see consistent results? Are you prioritizing, managing, and allocating your time appropriately? What systems do you have in place to ensure your business runs smoothly? What systems do you need to create right now?

Please do not be deceived and fool yourselves. Just because you find yourself busy all the time or seemingly putting out fires all the time does not mean you are consistent. That simply means you do not have the necessary systems in place. Of course, fires will appear, however, if you are consistently putting out fires, it is safe to say you are inconsistently being proactive with and in your business.