Neglect Can Take Dreams And Turn Them To Scrap
If you desire immediate improvement in your business and life identify one area of neglect and do something to get rid of it. When you hear about failure I can promise you that most of the time, neglect, in some shape or form, is the root cause.
Whether you are an individual seeking a better path or a self-employed business owner running a small business desiring more small business growth I can assure you that neglect will kill you and your dreams if you don’t take a sword to it.
Neglect: How Does It Start?
Neglect is very often like the fog. It quietly comes into your business and life. It usually comes in the dark and you don’t even realize you are in the fog until you see the light. As Robert Frost said in one of his poems, “The fog comes in on little cat feet.”
If you have some fog in your business and life address it now. Fog like neglect is subtle. Things are hazy and fuzzy. You think you see things but you don’t. Get clear.
Clarity Is The Enemy Of Neglect
You can only make good decisions once you have clarity. Clarity is one of the weapons you must use to get rid of neglect.
Yet, too often we avoid getting clarity. Why? Clarity, may mean that you have to confront someone. Most people don’t like confrontation. Also, it takes time. Time is the one thing that many entrepreneurs, solo professionals and self-employed business owners don’t want to take when it comes to addressing neglect.
As a result, neglect of a problem or a challenge festers and grows. And before you know it because you don’t want confrontation, the problem has become bigger than you or your small business.
To slay neglect you must seek confrontation. Confrontation, in many instances is the only way to gain clarity. Timidity is not a virtue. It is a disease. Timidity is a disease that can kill your dreams, desires and your business. Confront your areas of neglect and get clarity. Clarity is the first step in curing neglect.
Neglect is the Mother Of Failure
Neglect is the foundation upon which failure is built. What is failure’s most dangerous attribute? It is subtlety. It is like the fog that creeps in on little cat feet. Before you know it the fog has surrounded you. You lose you sense of direction. You become paralyzed.
Failure is not one grand event. In my personal business coaching practice I have come to see failure for what it is. It is the practice of neglect repeated every day over a period of time. Failure is the accumulation of repeated neglect.
Regardless of the quality of your business marketing plan, startup business plan or your desire for small business growth it will not happen until you develop the skill of correcting neglect.
Compare neglect in business and life to the health of your body. Neglect can start out as an infection. If left untreated, it can become a terminal condition and your body will fail. The same can be true for your business and life. The words someday, sometime are the first cousins and the biggest cheerleaders of neglect. Do something today about neglect.
The Benefit Of Killing Neglect
Quite simply, neglect is one of the main reasons people don’t have what they want. When you pay attention to questions, problems and challenges it allows you to rise to a higher level.
If you neglect them you are destined, not only to stay where you are, but to have a business and life of mediocrity. And, as you experience mediocrity over time you are more likely to fail.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away. Every day take a dose of attention and in the process you will kill neglect and create your path to success and happiness.
