How’d you get here?

“How did things get like this? This business looks a lot different than what I imagined when I started. I also have much less energy and passion than when I began. What has changed? And when did I decide to settle here?”

It’s easy to accidentally stop doing what you set out to do. We get comfortable. We achieve a level of success and decide to stop taking the calculated risks that got us where we are. But there’s another way we unknowingly lose focus and put the brakes on:

Subtle influences can permeate our minds without us knowing and distract us from our original core values.

This is obvious among those who run into much more money than they ever dreamt; lottery winners, those who have found great quick “success” with business, or the famous. What happens to them? Often they take newfound resource and use it how they think others expect them to.

But what about the tens of thousands of business owners this happens to that we never see or hear about? Are you one of them? Have you unknowingly let subtle influences dictate your behavior? The answer to that has got to be ‘yes’. That happens to us all.

What subtle influences can you expose so you can get back to your core values?