If you feel your horse business keeps you too busy to allow you to make changes to improve it, you are not alone with that feeling.
But, being too busy is not why you don’t make the changes. You may not like the real reason I’m about to tell you, but please hear me out.
The reason you cannot make changes in your business is because you are afraid of change. Change makes you nervous because you dread the unknown. And that means you accept the frustration and misery of what you have over risking the possibility of new frustrations in your search for improvement.
Besides, you already know there is no money in the horse business and trying a different way of doing business would destroy the myth and your personal comfort from proving the myth to be true.
Businesses are either growing or shrinking. They don’t stand still, especially in today’s economy. You are kidding yourself if you believe that your business will stay the same from year to year. You may be in the stable business, but your business is seldom stable.
You understand the need for making changes in “a business” for greater profit and more personal freedom, but cannot see how your business can possibly begin to make changes. No one really understands how busy you are and how little time you have to even think about changes.
I understand how busy you are and I don’t question for a second that you are already working too many hours on everything else. But, even though I understand how busy you are, I won’t accept that as an excuse from you to not start making changes in your business. You can do better and deserve a better living from self employment. The only defense I will accept from you is your admission that you’re afraid of change.
There is an old expression that says, “A problem named, is a problem solved”. Naming your problem fear of change is the first step in making your horse business more profitable and enjoyable.
The second step is spending 30 minutes this week to think about and write down what you would change if you weren’t afraid of change.
That’s all you have to do. Make a list of the things you would change if you weren’t fearful of change. Don’t worry about the How, Where and When. Just concentrate on the What you would change.
Thirty minutes, a pencil, a pad of paper and you have a deadline of midnight on Saturday this week.
I double dog dare you.