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What is the second key to growth in your business?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live brought to you every day from Grants Pass, Oregon.

Today we are discussing the second key to growth.

The first key to growth was yesterday and you can go back and rewatch that video if you want, but it had to do with determining your destination.

So where are you looking at taking your business?

And the second key to growth I will go through in just a moment, but first I wanted to remind you about DreamBizChat.com.

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Now, the second key to growth has to do with we’ve determined our destiny.

So our destination, I should say, where you’re going to go. You’ve got where you’re starting and you’ve got where you’re going.

Now the next step is to define your obstacles, to really identify your obstacles.

What are the obstacles that are standing in your way of getting there?

Especially if you have a concept of how long it’s going to take to get to that step.

So let’s say this is a year long plan and we’re looking at going from where we’re at and we’re looking at growing. Let’s say we’re looking at doubling just for an example, doubling our revenue.

If you’re looking at doubling your revenue, what are the obstacles standing in your way of getting there within a year or sooner?

Because if there aren’t any obstacles, if your growth plan is already moving that direction and there’s no real foreseen obstacles, then why can’t we make it go faster?

Why not do the same thing in six months?

There’s always obstacles.

That’s why I’m almost certain there has to be obstacles.

If there aren’t, then you need to shorten the amount of time and see what you can do about making it go faster. The obstacle is the time itself. But beyond that, there’s going to be other obstacles.

There’s going to be obstacles in terms of, you know, how quickly you can grow.

So being able to scale at that type of level, if you to double your business tomorrow. If you can double it tomorrow, would you be able to handle that type of influx of either new customers, new clients, or possibly maybe just handling the delivery of the whole thing.

So maybe you don’t even end up with new customers. What if the same customers came back and were buying twice as much in inventory in amounts?

Would you be able to handle that?

Depending on your business and depending on whether you’re handling a physical product or in terms of service, do you have the manpower to be able to deliver that type of service on, in that period of time.

These are all logistics.

The scaling logistics of it. The ability to say, do we have the material, do we have the physical material?

There’s many, many, many things, but it needs to be all drawn out.

Now it seems real simple. It’s like, of course we’re going to have a plan to go from point A to point B.

Every business does.

No they don’t. That’s the problem is most of the time we’re floating along and we don’t have a very clear understanding of where we’re going to be in a year.

And because of that, when that happens, you don’t really have a clear understanding of what everyone’s role is.

Not everyone is focused on the same thing. Everyone in your whole organization has different goals because a goal is always going to come in whether you want it to or not.

A goal is always going to take the place where a goal isn’t it?

It’s kind of like a vacuum, a leadership vacuum.

If there’s no leadership leadership with it will arrive in some form. It may not be a form that you like, you know, the janitor is going to start bossing people around.

If the boss isn’t taking control and leading the way someone is going to fill the void, something will always fill the void of a goal.

It’s just the fact of the matter.

You have an organization, you have a place that people are coming to or a reason that people are all coming together.

If you have that, there’s gotta be something that pulls them all together.

Otherwise everyone’s going to keep doing their own thing and no one’s there. You’re not going to have anybody on the same track and nothing ever gets accomplished in your terms. And the believe it or not whether you set a goal or not in your mind you have a goal.

I know this has spent a lot of time on the first step, but the first step determines the second step.

If you can see that you need to define your destination, then after you’ve defined your destination, you’ve got to lay out what the obstacles are.

The obstacles are obvious.

Yeah, they might be obvious to you, but they’re not obvious to everybody else and you need to think a little bit further than tomorrow, in-terms of if we’re able to get a partial way to our goal.

What are the new obstacles that show up there?

What can we do to keep those obstacles from showing themselves or to keep them from being obstacles at all?

These are all things that all need to be taken into account when setting up a strategy which is a plan.

Even just a strategy for one year’s worth.

Where are we going with this and how are we going to keep this stuff from all falling apart so that we can actually get from point A to point B.

Now, there’s seven steps in this process that I call The Worthington Method.

The Worthington Method has a seven step process we’ve gone over to.

Tomorrow we’re going to go over the third step.

These seem extremely simplistic, but if you have someone that understands how to take a person through this process, it can be a game changer for your business.

There’s nothing you can’t do when it’s organized correctly and you have the proper strategy behind it.

Hopefully you found that interesting.

Hopefully you can use this in your business or in your organization or whatever you’re looking to accomplish in life.

If you’d love to talk about it, hey,leave a comment or go to BrianJPombo.com and check out some of my other offerings there.

Perhaps we can talk and go through specifics on your business.

That’s BrianJPombo.com.

Also don’t forget about DreamBizChat.com. If you are in the self-reliance field and you’re looking to really achieve that dream business, which is what The Worthington Method is all about.

Hey, you have a great night. We’re going to be back here tomorrow night and we’re going to talk some more out.

You can see I’m starting to put up a little bit of Christmas decorations here and there.

Here I have the ultimate reward right here. If you’re familiar with the movie, A Christmas Story. And I’ll add in things as we go along, but we’ll see it tomorrow.

Hey, you have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.