These two ideas are very important for making a change to how any business is operating. With them, your working world can improve and flourish.

First the commitment.

A business that is not operating in the way that is optimal, or in a way the business person wants it to, requires the business person to make a commitment to change.

A business or organisation in itself cannot change.

Only the person can – and the commitment they make to themselves must be to break some old routines, confront a few of the issues head on, attempt new approaches and promise to themselves take the short term pain to get the long term gain of change.

Several things can happen in that moment – FEAR is possibly one. HABIT and RESISTANCE are the others.

Fear holds people back from trying something new – what if it doesn’t work? Will I look stupid for trying something new? And you hold back from really attempting to make the full and complete change.

So, Ask yourself a better question – what if it does work? This is more empowering.

Habits are fantastic things – except when they prevent you from moving forward. Many of us are operating in a way that is pure habit – and to have a different business means you have to look at the way you habitually go about your day. Time management (…actually, self-management, as you cannot manage time) Is one of the key places that requires you to have a good long hard look at yourself. Much of how we are working is based on the way we did it last week, and the week before, and the week before that. The tasks we do, are the ones we have always done. – These are all habits.

I’m like everyone else I would like to wave a magic wand, or fire a silver bullet, and fix things easily. Unfortunately, I am unable to do that.

That is where the commitment, and then the discipline comes in.

It is up to the person to first make a commitment to change what is occurring.

And then put the disciplines in place everyday so that things can change. (Discipline, it is such an old fashioned word with unfortunate connotations.) Simply put, it is all about the exercise of will power, self control and persistence.

To have a business operating differently requires the effort to change.

An easy start point is to create a list of all the activities, tasks and actions we need to do every day. Review each and every one and decide which may need to change and then either do it, delegate it, or dump it.

I have found that when the way you look and do things changes, then the things you look at and do, change.

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