What were your reasons for starting your own pet care business?

Most business owners include love of animals, personal freedom, financial independence and time with family as their top reasons for starting a pet care business.

Whatever your original reasons for opening your own business, take an honest inventory of your success in the area of each goal. How do you define personal freedom?

If it is simply calling your own shots - not answering to a boss then you can probably pat yourself on the back and put a check mark next to that one. However, if your goal was deeper than firing your boss - if it included creating a meaningful life outside of work - how would you score?

Are you taking the trips you always dreamed of?
Is your personal life as fulfilling as your time at work?
Do you spend quality time with your loved ones?
Have you set and achieved personal goals in the areas of fitness and health, travel and adventure?
How would you rate your financial goals? Are you still trading time for money?
Do you have systems in place so your money is working for you?

Don’t beat yourself up if you haven’t achieved more than one or two of your primary goals you had set for yourself when you started on this entrepreneurial journey. You are certainly not alone - as a matter of fact, you are in the majority.

Most people fail to achieve even their most passionate desires and goals because they allow life to get in the way. The one defining difference between the most productive and successful people in the world and everyone else is the ability to focus time and attention on a specified goal until its completion.

The single most important action you can take each and every day is upon determining your most pressing goal(s) - devote a specified amount of time solely dedicated to that goal until it is completed.

Depending on your goal - it may look like two hours in the late afternoon when you lock yourself in your office with absolutely no interruptions. No phone calls, no e-mails, no interruptions at all. It may mean you get up an hour earlier in the morning or stay up an hour later in the evening to work on your fitness goals or your intellectual or spiritual goals.

It takes consistent action toward your goal to accomplish anything worthwhile. Don’t imagine that you are too busy to accomplish more. The wealthiest, most successful people in the world are arguably the busiest people in the world as well.

If the busiest people in the world make the time to achieve their goals - and we all have the same 24 hours in a day - it is a good indication that we too can achieve our goals.

Whatever you are saying to yourself right now, whether affirmations or excuses - those thoughts are the fuel that will drive your future. Excuses will keep you stagnant. A year from now you will not only not have achieved any of your goals but you will have lost footing in your existing business.

There is no sitting still - you are either growing or dying. No in between.

If you believe you can achieve your goals with a consistent, focused effort - you will. And that achievement will foster more belief and power to achieve even greater goals. It is a law of nature - what you focus on grows.

Focus on the excuses and you will get more busy work and garbage to fill up your 24 hours. Focus on possibilities and a worthy goal and you will become the person you imagine yourself to be.

It is really very simple if you just allow yourself the opportunity to succeed. Take the time every day to fulfill the dreams inside of you. Before you know it - those dreams that once existed only in your mind will be a reality in your outside world.

Take consistent action today and every day and soar!

Warm Waggles,
Fran
fran@dogbusinessdaily.com