Listen to podcast: Amplify Your Personal Strengths For Better Results In Your Business
My review of the podcast:
Having written a couple of books about success in small businesses, I am quite comfortable addressing the how of business success. In a nutshell, that would be the effective application of whatever best practices help individual business owners succeed.
To the best of my recollection, it wasn’t until my SuccessGrid Podcast interview with Hussein Taleb that I addressed the what of success in public. Certainly I had given the concept of success plenty of serious consideration. I just hadn’t shared my thoughts in public.
His question “What does success mean to you?” opened the door an overload of past reflections.
In the simplest of terms, when considering what success means, it is important to understand and constantly keep in mind that there is no one-size-fits-all, good-for-all-time definition.
How could there be?
Each of us is a unique individual with our own unique combination of strengths and weaknesses to face whatever opportunities and challenges come our way. As a result, whatever combination of my strengths that I may applied to those opportunities that arose in my life, may—or may not—have any relevance to your personal strengths and potential opportunities.
Similarly, whatever success may have meant to us as children is probably not a good definition of success for a mature adult.
Many people have articulated the factors that contribute to success. One of my favorites is Jim Bunch, who among other credits, is a speaker, write and entrepreneur extraordinaire suggests nine factors contribute to success:
- Body: your overall health, primary energy source, nutrition and exercise
- Self: strengths, talent, gifts, skills, core values and unique assets
- Spiritual: connection to a higher power (or disconnection), a sense of flow
- Nature: life, plants, animals, outdoors, geography, seasons
- Physical: home, office, desk, car, equipment and possessions, including anchors to the past
- Financial: money, investments, insurance, real estate, people who support your financial well being
- Network: clients, internet, social networks, clubs, groups, associations
- Relationships: family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, staff, teams, coaches, etc.
- Memetic: your ideas, concepts and beliefs.
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