Your Thriving Business

If there is one thing that separates the successful business owners I have seen from the rest, it’s mindset. The people that build successful businesses get a few things that others can’t seem to wrap their heads around. Luckily, it’s something that can be learned and once you see it, it can’t be unseen.

In this episode, we'll cover 5 key points to help you build and maintain a strategy within your business and I have a couple book recommendations to help you get started as well.

Key points are:

1. Yes, strategy is for small businesses (in fact, it's critical)
2. Keep it simple: it doesn't have to take days!
3. It's about action - we are trying to get to a place where we can take actions toward our goals.
4. The components of strategy
5. How to work the plan

In today's episode, we will cover why $1 Million is the sweet spot for a building a business that helps you lead a balanced lifestyle and run a successful business. We'll also cover why it's a great launching pad size for larger businesses and how to mitigate some of the key issues of being smaller (if you choose to stay smaller).

Welcome to our new series on how to build a $1 Million business in Canada. This episode will cover why we're doing this series and what you can look forward to from it. 

The great paradox of running a small business: balancing your passion for serving your customers with making money off of them. Here's the article that inspired this episode.

Today we cover how to think about what you want your business to become in order to help you meet your personal life goals. Joe walks through the process of removing yourself from aspects of your business in order to do the work that you do best.

A Compass has really helped me stay focused on what's important. That helps me work towards my big goals and build a thriving business. In this episode, I break down what is in my compass and how it's helped me build Avalon.

Here's the outline of a compass

1. Life Goals (3-5 big goals for your life)
2. Daily Actions (things you can do every day to support your life goals)
3. Reminders (where do you go off track?)
4. Affirmations (ok, but they work!)

Hey Everybody! Welcome to my new podcast - Your Thriving Business. Here I will share my philosophy on what makes a thriving business and my tactics on how you can make your business more fun to run!