What Do You Do When it Doesn't Seem to be Working?

There often comes a time in when you are growing your
business when an overwhelming feeling begins to penetrate
your mind. A feeling that sometimes isn't easily
identified. A feeling of dread that nothing seems to be
working. What do you do when it just doesn't seem to be
working? And "it" is a vague word. It can be your
marketing, networking, planning or client retention.

In the movie "Meet the Parents", Ben Stiller's character
just couldn't do the right thing in the eyes of his
girlfriend's father. He didn't know why things weren't
working out; he just knew that it all seemed to be going
against him. No matter what he did, everything he tried
seemed to backfire on him. Even the idea of spray painting
the cat's tail got him into deeper trouble. Finally near
the end of the movie something really crazy happened.

That's what sometimes happens with your business growth.
It's a scatter approach that many people undertake. "This
month I'll put an ad in the paper", "Next month I'll try to
go to that networking meeting", "Maybe I'll try to pass out
some fliers and put them on some cars". All in all, this
scatter approach is hit or miss. Kind of like that
commercial on television with the one guy working with all
the monkeys in a fictional business who decide that buying
lottery tickets is a great idea to increase their company's
revenue. It might work and it probably won't work.

During times like these, it's time to begin to diagnose
what exactly you need to find a solution. A formula that
works is A3. That's A three times. Each A stands for a
step to a solution that helps stimulate people to change
and succeed. This formula helps raise the conscious
awareness and helps inspire change toward a desired result.
That result is more inspired business planning and soul
satisfying lifestyle.

The first A is Acknowledge. Take time to acknowledge
things aren't working. Identify where you feel things
aren't being realized in your business growth. Be
realistic. This isn't a time to sugar coat things. Just
as adjustments are continually made to an unmanned
spacecraft heading to Mars, your business growth must
implement adjustments along the way to success also. By
defining what needs and wants are going unfulfilled, you
are taking a step that a majority of people never do. When
you try to sidestep around issues that are uncomfortable,
you are just delaying the success you desire in your
business growth.

Accept is the second A. Accepting your not too favorable
assessment of things brings you much closer to a solution.
It's like trying to find your way around an unknown dark
room. When the light switch is finally turned on you feel
much better about where you are and you can understand with
more clarity where you can move forward to. This is where
you can accept and connect to your fear. Accepting a
certain fear about calling people and following up
simplifies the solution. This is where you can learn to
accept what kind of help is available to you. By just
saying "I'm not really sure how to do this, who specializes
in helping holistic businesses grow and when can I
implement what they know?" will give you a better clarity
of how to succeed.

The third A is to be Action oriented. Decide that a
certain course of action is necessary to move forward in
your business growth. When you understand that a simple
action will increase your growth, this response will
stimulate further gains in your business. An action can be
something as simple as signing up for an eCourse to
participating in a full fledged coaching program. What you
resist persists. You've invested too much time and money
in obtaining your certifications to not take some action.
When you invest further in your education by implementing
something different in your business growth by taking
action or getting help from a mentor, you'll implement new
strategies and improve your overall satisfaction of what
you're doing as a healer to many more people.

Towards the end of the "Meet the Parents" movie there came
a point where Ben Stiller had to have a serious discussion
with his future father-in-law, Robert De Niro. They both
acknowledged that they had differences. They then accepted
that they must make changes to their relationship in order
to get the things they both wanted in their lives. Next,
they decided to take action by establishing ground rules on
how they would interact with each other and what they would
both do in the future to make sure their relationship moved
forward.

It’s a classic example of A3 in action.

Here's your assignment: Take some time this week to
acknowledge what's not working right now in your business
growth or in your life in general. Now decide if you are
willing to accept that it's not working and where there is
help available to help you implement new strategies to move
forward. Finally, take some action. Decide to overcome
any doubts that you have about getting and accepting help.
Some of the greatest success stories have happened because
people took action in getting help for their challenge.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS: D.J. and Sherri Frost are Healing Arts
Business Growth Specialists helping holistic practitioners
grow their businesses. To get their FREE eCourse: 7
Critical Skills to Attract More Money, More Clients and a
Soul-Satisfying Lifestyle, visit http://www.ProPowerNow.com

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