Keys To Business Success
August 28th, 2007 . by Deb BixlerThe keys to success in business are like a recipe. As a former chef and still a food geek, I equate most things to food. A recipe is nothing more than a formula that creates a finished dish. The key to success in anything is to have a formula, recipe or system that works. Everyone who uses a recipe, formula or system will get the same results. When you make pecan pie and I make pecan pie using the same recipe it will come out the same. When you follow the same formula or system in your business that I do, you will get the same results. Here is a system that is the key to success in business. Every entrepreneur who incorporates all of these key ingredients into his or her business will have a successful business.
16 Key Ingredients For Business Success
There are 16 key ingredients necessary for the creation of a successful business. When you incorporate them all into your business philosophy, you will have what it takes to create your own business successes.
1. Dream Big
Dream big because massive dreams will achieve mighty big results. Create a vision for your future that is massive and visualize yourself living it. No one ever dreams too big and wishes that they had not gotten there.
2. Visualize Your Dreams
Keep your mission and dreams in your mind’s eye everyday. Write out a brief mission statement in the present tense describing your ideal life and stay focused on the results you are striving for. Create affirmations that validate your dream and fill your mind day and night with them. Remember the old saying: “As you think, you shall be.”
3. Become Committed To Your Mission
The very definition of commitment is that you will never give up until you achieve what you have decided to commit to. Create your vision or mission and commit to achieving it. When you become willing to go to any length to achieve your goals, you will always get where you want to go.
4. Be Consistent
Take small steps everyday. Consistent daily progress is more effective than huge progress intermittently. Everything does not have to be perfect to proceed. Take small steps every day to move forward on a consistent basis.
5. Live Outside Of Your Comfort Zone
When you are uncomfortable you are growing. You must always stretch your comfort zone in order to grow into your new person as well as in your business. Successful entrepreneurs make a habit out of living outside their comfort zone so that they are always experiencing something new.
6. Use Your Intuition
Your subconscious mind is capable of making better decisions than your conscious or analytical mind. Truly successful business owners learn how to allow their intuition to work without overriding it through conscious analysis. Your conscious mind frequently makes mistakes because of too many details getting into the picture. Frequently snap decisions will be better decisions. Use and act on your intuition, even if you do not understand it.
7. Recognize What The Worst Case Scenario Is
The catering industry is one which is overrun with daily problems and perceived disasters. An expression we often used to keep things in perspective was “no one ever dies”. Don’t focus on minor details that could go wrong and allow them to stop you from moving closer to your mission. Successful business owners make more mistakes than those not so successful because they are willing to take risks. What’s the worst that can happen? I mean really!
8. Keep Track Of Progress
Anything that is measured or watched will improve. Keeping tabs on your progress. Measuring progress will keep momentum moving forward. Anything that is of any significance for your business should be charted or monitored. You get what you focus on so measure your progress regularly. This absolutely works!
9. Manage Your Affairs
Anything not managed will deteriorate. Don’t give yourself the luxury of procrastination, laziness, or the “I can’t” attitude. Successful business owners own their business, which means they manage their affairs.
10. Collaborate With Like-Minded Individuals
When you network and collaborate with others who have similar missions, your efforts are cubed. Two people in collaboration have 4 times the results as one. Three people working together achieve 9 times the results as one, and so on. Success is easier with partners, even when those partners could be perceived as competition.
11. Solve Your Own Problems
Analyze your problems and seek solutions yourself. When you look for other people to solve your problems you will always be looking for an easier, softer way. Using steps 8, 9, and 10 of this recipe create systems to solve your business problems. This will give you an edge in the market place.
12. Hire Professional Experts
You cannot be good at everything. If paying someone $10, $40, $85, or $100 per hour to do something that is slowing you down, then pay it. It may be tech support, a baby sitter, or cleaning lady or even a lawyer. I personally pay an accountant each month to look at my checkbooks because the amount of time I would have to spend to do it right can be better spent on what I do best. You cannot achieve your mission when you are bogged down on details that you are not good at or that are slowing you down.
13. Realize That Life Is Never Fair
When you understand that life is never fair, then you will not be disappointed as often. Most of the time when you are looking at others and their businesses, you are only seeing how they look from the outside, or from a distance. Don’t compare how you feel to how they look. Life is not meant to be fair.
14. Don’t Take Things Personally
People are always acting from their own space. When you recognize that what other people think, do or say about you is not about you, it will free you up to move forward at a comfortable rate. Don’t let what other people think about you change your mission. Setbacks in business are not deliberately stacked against you. Bad things do happen to good people. Don’t take things personally.
15. Don’t Take Your Self Too Seriously
We do not have as much control as we think we do. Lighten up. Have fun with what you do. If you do not enjoy it, don’t do it. Make fun of yourself. Sleep well at night, knowing you did the best you could today and get over what ever you thought should have been different. We are not on earth for a long time. We are here to have a good time.
16. Smile Like A Tiger
You can always find a reason to smile and show your teeth. This is the single most important ingredient in this recipe because it is the one that creates success in all the others. Smiling creates power for you and for everyone around you.
A Recipe or System Works For Everyone
A Recipe or System Works For Everyone. So there you have it….Deb Bixler’s secret recipe for success. A good recipe, like a system or best business practice, will work for everyone who follows it. Remember that you committed to your mission in step three of this recipe. There is an old Chinese proverb that says that “The temptation to quit is greatest just before you are about to succeed.” Incorporating these 16 keys into your life will create success in both your business and personal life.
I teach business systems that when applied to your business will create successful results. The Create A Cash Flow Show CD set is a system of systems that will create a consistent cash flow in any home party business. Businesses and people never fail, only systems fail. If the system you are using is not working, then try another one that has worked for others. To learn more about Create A Cash Flow Show click Here.






