How To Avoid Giving Up In Your Business

<p>I know what it’s like when you set a big hairy &amp; scary goal.&nbsp;You can start thinking <em>… ‘is it really going to happen?’</em></p><br><p>Then doubt can creep in &amp; you start thinking <em>…. ‘but how am I going to do it?!?’</em></p><br><p>‘How?’ … isn’t the most useful question to focus or dwell upon from my experience.</p><br><p>Because if you’re so determined to have something happen in a very specific way, you could be closing your eyes to opportunities for that goal being achieved in much easier &amp; different ways.&nbsp;Ways that you don’t even know is possible yet.</p><br><p>So how do you keep the faith &amp; confidence to keep on going?</p><br><p>For me, I love seeing ‘signs’ that give me the little nod, that things are unfolding towards that goal, so just keep on moving forward.</p><br><p>Do you have a ‘sign’ that helps give you that boost?</p><br><p>For me, it’s whenever I see a butterfly.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whether that’s a real-life one, or if it shows up in the most random of places, like my niece’s t-shirt the other day.</p><br><p>Without fail, it helps me banish any doubts &amp; gives me an extra spring in my step.</p><br><p>If you don’t have a ‘sign’ yet, you can choose one!&nbsp;Just make sure it’s not something so normal that you already see it easily every day.</p><br><p>Butterflies also reminds me of something powerful one of my mentors Roger Hamilton talks about.</p><br><p><strong><em>‘Grow a garden instead of chasing butterflies’</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p>There’s 2 ways to go growing your business, a hard way or an easier way.</p><br><p>If you’re constantly chasing butterflies, it’s like being in ‘hustle’ mode.&nbsp;Every day you’re having to wake up &amp; do lots of chasing.&nbsp;Think about it, if you had a net &amp; were chasing butterflies, what would they do?&nbsp;Fly away from you!</p><br><p>And if you didn’t get out there with your net to chase your butterflies, well you’d have none that day, right?</p><br><p>How about you did things differently?