4 Key Elements to Creating a Successful Business
Creating a successful business can be a joyous process, particularly if you follow these key philosophies.
Creating a Successful Business
Business is one of those places in life where people think they have to know it all. They think it’s education, experience, or expertise that’s necessary to make a business work. That’s not at all the case.
A successful business isn’t about how many letters you have after your name, or any shiny qualifications. Creating a business that really thrives, requires asking questions and following your awareness to know what will work. Credentials are irrelevant. Business is about creation. A successful business is where you’re willing to have the level of joy and possibility that’s truly available.
What definition do you have for business? What did you grow up with? If you observed your parents coming home after work tired and grumpy, for example, or heard people consistently complain about all their problems with work, then that’s what business became associated with. It wasn’t a place for joy or possibility.
Asking questions to create your business is looking at everything you defined business as and asking what else is possible. Instead of doing whatever you learned or concluded you have to do, ask what other choices are available. Replicating what has been done or relying on facts and figures restricts what you can create. Questions allow you to know what will work, what will be more generative, and what will give you access to possibilities that go beyond anything that’s ever been created. Definitions don’t allow any room for true creation.
Here are some other key elements to assist in creating a joyful, successful business:
4 Keys of a Successful Business
Successful Business Key #1 – Acknowledge that creating your business is the creation of your life.
Has it ever occurred to you that creating your business is the creation of your life and living? Most people try to put the business in a container as if it can be separate from their life. I often say, your life is your business, and your business is your life. When you acknowledge that they are truly one in the same, it changes the way you relate to your business and the choices you make. If you wake up in the morning and have blood running through your veins, you’re in business.
The joy of business is the ability, capacity, and willingness to be real about what is occurring, what you can change, and what you can create. It’s asking what choices you have available in any given moment for a different possibility. Creating a joyful business is the creation of a joyful life.
Successful Business Key #2 – Be willing to be truly different.
Look at all the people around you. How many of them are creating their lives joyfully? Are they hungry for change? What could you create if you were the one who’s willing actually to be different?
Being overly different can sound too risky for many people when it comes to business. That’s because they’re not asking the questions required to know what’s actually possible and what will work. Asking questions is not how business is usually done. It’s creating in a way that’s totally different.
Successful Business Key #3 – Acknowledge every capacity you have available.
How many capacities do you have that you haven’t ever acknowledged? People tend to rely on a handful of skills they’ve determined their greatest strengths without considering what else they have to offer. Acknowledging your capacities doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself but, by doing so, you unlock the restrictions you’ve concluded you have on your abilities to create something greater.
Make a list of all your capacities. Ask others what they’re aware of about you that you aren’t seeing. The more aware you are of your capacities, the more expansively you can create.
Successful Business Key #4 – Leave judgment out of it.
Judgment is where people stop themselves from creating and generating everything they could be. All judgments are just points of view based on definitions of right and wrong. They’re where you keep yourself and your business from being as boundless and generative as actually possible. Judgments will never allow you to create anything greater.
What judgments are you functioning from? Get honest with yourself and look at what else you could be choosing. The reasons and justifications aren’t important. They’ll just keep you locked in. Be willing to acknowledge what judgments you’re using to keep yourself from ever being as truly successful as actually possible. Now, what else can you choose?
Business isn’t about getting anything right. It doesn’t require any particular education or experience. Success comes from the willingness to go beyond definition and to ask questions every day about the possibilities available. What can you create as your life, living, and business that’s greater and more joyful than you ever imagined possible?
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About the Author
Simone Milasas is an entrepreneur, creator, creative business coach, international business owner, author and Worldwide Coordinator of Access Consciousness. She has been at the forefront of cutting-edge business creation and development for over a decade and has trained business leaders and innovators all over the world. Simone is the author of JOY OF BUSINESS translated into 13 languages and best-selling book GETTING OUT OF DEBT JOYFULLY translated into 5 languages. You can find Simone every week on her podcast – The Art & Industry of Business & Living available on her website, www.simonemilasas.com
