Are you The Boss of Yourself?

As a seasoned entrepreneur, President & CEO of my 27 year old company -I know what it means to develop, survive and thrive in the business world. My company feels like my child. It is an extension of me. I nurtured and cared for it from infancy to adulthood. I look at my company as a living entity. Naturally, as mother wants the best for her child in all aspects so she/he may grow up and be happy & successful. I want the very best for my company so it may also live a long and prosperous life. By viewing my business this way, I have had to release some negative aspects that threaten the future life of this living entity. Specifically, I have had employees that aren't producing and are not making a positive impact towards growing the company. I call these the dead weights. I end up carrying these individuals, or in some cases the dead weight may be a piece of equipment taking up valuable space that could be a productive profit center. That extra energy used to "pull along" these dead weights immediately threatens the life of any company. I recently had to release 3 employees due to the shift in the economy. I naturally kept the ones that I knew would make my business survive and THRIVE.

The parallel I draw here is that YOU are YOUR own entity. You are YOUR own CEO of YOU and YOUR life. Why would you NOT release those things that make your company run inefficiently? WHY would you hang onto those dead weights that bring you down, drain your energy, and deflate your spirit? Take a proactive approach today and regain control of your business! Now’s the time to happily release dead weights, in all aspects-in the form clutter in your home or car, extra fat on your body, habits that are unhealthy, friends that continually drain you and make you feel bad, wasteful spending habits-such as eating out too much, or buying things on a whim because "it was a good deal". Releasing my dead weights on a regular basis requires me to evaluate myself. I do a "self check" to be sure that nothing is buggin me-and when I'm bugged-I get a huge leaky hole in my energy tank. The only thing I ever regret when I release my own personal dead weights...is that it TOOK me SO LONG! "Why didn't I do it sooner?" I ask myself! Like the story of the boy who kept slamming his finger in the cupboard. His mother kept hearing him say "ouch! Ouch!" And ran into the kitchen and asked "Why do you keep hurting yourself!" And the boy proclaimed "because it feels so much better when I stop." How many of us keep hurting ourselves by choosing to carry around our personal dead weights? STOP the MADNESS. Assume your position in your own company! YOU are, after all is said and done-The Boss of Yourself!
Be True to you,
Wendy