Article Contributed by Dr. Joey Faucette
When I made a New Year’s resolution a few years ago to start exercising regularly, I did pretty well at first, going often and really enjoying the time and feeling better. After a while though I noticed my enthusiasm waning. I had more excuses not to go and I let them get in the way.
I knew I needed a partner—someone to hold me accountable, committed to our mutual success, and who brings out the best in me. Our younger daughter became my partner. She helped me push away from my desk and get up and do what I intended.
We business owners often try to go it alone and do pretty well at first. After a while though, for a variety of reasons, we find more excuses not to do what we should.
Who is your partner? Who is someone with whom you can conceive positive outcomes in your business?
Here are the three key characteristics your partner must have for you to get to where you want to be in your business.
Accountability
A rubber band has a shape of its own which isn’t very useful. It just lays there in the palm of your hand without any obvious use. Put a little pressure on it, it changes shape, and suddenly becomes very usable for a variety of purposes.
Accountability is the pressure your partner puts on you to move beyond your current business practices to ones that are more purposeful. You shift your shape toward more productivity and conceive more positively how your business can grow.
Mutual Benefit
I bought a bird feeder that promised to be squirrel proof. A counterweight system closed the gate on the bird seed slots when a heavy squirrel sat on the perch. It worked…until one day I watched as a squirrel ate eagerly from the perch while another squirrel sat on the counterweight. Then they switched places.
Now if squirrels can Work Positive for mutual benefit, we can find a partner with whom we can enjoy a similar relationship.
Insure that your partner is committed to your mutual success.
Brings Out the Best
When you are around some people, you look brighter, act sharper, and move more effectively to get things done. You just sense that you’re at your best.
Who brings out the best in you? Whether it’s offering you words of encouragement, or helping you assess accurately a situation, or doing some heavy lifting, your partner must be that person with whom you reach higher, accomplish more, and achieve greatness.
Regardless of how talented or skilled you are as a business professional, you develop personally and grow your business professionally more effectively and efficiently when you remember that it takes two to positively partner for greater success!
Conceive your business for positive profits and productivity starting today!
About the Author:
Best-selling author, speaker, and coach Dr. Joey Faucette shares how all of us working together create a more positive world this week. Adapted from his #1 Amazon best-seller, Work Positive in a Negative World.