Are the “flat tires”’or negative events in your business taking away from your positive focus and ability to grow and scale your business?

Hey, Mike Callahan, I want to suggest a question here- Are the flat tires in your business derailing your success and your ability to scale faster and dominate your market? Well, I just got done plugging a tire here. My wife’s car picked up a nail and it was flat this morning, but these things in our businesses, the nails in our tire, the unexpected things are going to happen in our lawn care or home cleaning businesses. How are you going to face these challenges? Are you going to face them with optimism and look forward and see how you can learn from them? Or are you going to let them derail your day in negativity and suck the life out of you and your business and your team members from the negativity that could possibly be coming from this.

So my challenge today is face the business obstacles, or the flat tires in your business, with optimism-  What can we learn from them? How can we be proactively ready for them? And when they do happen, how can we have the mindset of positivity so we’re not letting it derail our day or our team members’ days? And I can’t tell you how many days and times we went down to our shop and one of our trailers or trucks caught a nail. The team didn’t know about it, we got down there, there was a flat tire. We’d have individuals on the team that would face it with optimism. They would go in and fix it and get ready and get a new tire on the truck just as a back-up, maybe an extra can of Fix-A-Flat, whatever that took, so they were ready if that next flat tire came up or there was other people that literally derailed their whole entire day and their positivity and their positive focus was gone. So my challenge to you today is, no matter whether it’s a flat tire in your business or a growth or scaling obstacle, maybe a no-show-no-call employee or a troublesome consumer that is sucking the life out of you and changing that positive focus, I would suggest getting rid of that negativity – whether it be a client – or refocusing your energy on a positive focus to overcome the flat tires in your business. So face your challenges with optimism and how could you proactively be ready when they happen. Because it’s not if they’re going to happen, it’s when they’re going to happen. So if we’re ready for them, we expect them, it is going to allow us to drive to our end goal whether it’s a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or quarterly sales goal or employment goal or maybe a work-life balance goal. These things are going to happen. So my challenge to you is how are you going to face the challenges that are going to come up in your business today and in the next 30 days with optimism and a positive focus to move forward and grow and scale your business with a great work-life balance that you’re not going to kill yourself from a heart attack of the basically self-imposed stress and anxiety that we all face in our business. So drop your comments below how you handle the positive focus and positive outcome when negative things happen in your business.