Everyone wants results. We want to get them quickly and easily, but only a select few succeed.
What exactly do they do?
They simply know how to manage themselves, their actions, and their subordinates, and this yields results.
What exactly do they know how to do?
They always make the right choices.
Why choices?
Because we are always faced with a choice:
— What to do?
From this global question stems a multitude of decisions that lead to specific actions and new choices. So, what choices do we have to make:
- compete or act independently;
- take responsibility or refuse;
- catch up or forge our own path;
- to be or to seem;
- give up or believe;
- submit or resist;
- deny or accept.
This is the trail of choices everyone walks almost every single day. And exactly what choice was made determines how everything will unfold next…
Daily choices shape the final result. In fact, knowing the choice, one can quite accurately predict the result. The only thing impossible to say is “when will it happen?”, how much time it will take…
“Knowing the choice, one can quite accurately predict the result” is one conclusion, but there is another:
By changing the choice, a person changes the final result.
From these two key conclusions, three main rules of life and business management emerge:
- Choice is the path to the result.
- You can always change your choice.
- By changing the choice, we change the path…
The third rule is crucial for managers and entrepreneurs who simply cannot motivate their staff.
Someone else’s choice can only be changed by setting the task correctly; then the staff enters the zone of responsibility and makes their own choice. And the choice determines the path to the result.
Are you surprised? Yes, it’s quite simple. There is only one secret: you need to know how to delegate and set tasks. And many have never been taught this.
But let’s get back to the staff. If subordinates are not working, it means they are making the wrong choice, and you are either not setting tasks or don’t know how to set them correctly. Learn to set tasks properly, and you will see that the result is close at hand.
You probably really want all of this to be untrue, right?
But, reading all of the above, you will still have to make your choice:
- not to believe that choice matters this much;
- or to accept that making a choice is mandatory, and it is the choice that determines the path.
If you refuse to make a choice, that is also a choice, and it naturally leads you somewhere. I hope you have made up your mind.
Of course, the path can be quite pleasant, but any path is a road to a result. And the most important thing is the encounter with the result: this encounter can either please you or disappoint you.
Everything depends on choice:
- whether the business will be successful;
- how subordinates will work;
- what you will gain and what you will lose.
It is practically impossible to briefly describe how a choice happens; one can only say this: sometimes it’s instant, and sometimes it’s long and painful.
The most important thing in a choice is understanding what follows it. This consequence is not always fully realized, and movement is launched in a completely different direction than you had planned.
If you want your plans to match reality, make the right choices. Start acknowledging that your business and managerial results depend entirely on you.
Remember that through your choices, you control the movement toward all achievements and losses. Only by properly managing your choices can you achieve a lot and act quite easily. The main thing is to know how to manage choices; everything else happens automatically.
That, in short, is the essence of managing your movement in business and life. The only question is:
— Do you know how to manage your choices, or are you walking blind?
And one more very important emphasis:
— You cannot manage Time. You can only manage yourself in time, and this happens specifically through choices, not through making plans and tracking hours.
Be attentive on the road and don’t fall into traps. Make the right choices and remember: you control the movement.
You can use the Coaching-Module “Practical Solutions” to shorten the distance and save time.
Business team coaching.
Olena Boiko — a business coach who creates results
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