As we look forward to relaxation of lockdown in our lives and businesses, it can be difficult to find or maintain motivation. But let’s take a look at a quote attributed to Albert Einstein: “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity”.So, the question is, what opportunities are there for you, or for your business?
Business Pivot or Business Adaptation – What is your “great opportunity”?
You might think in these JobKeeper days that you or your business has to undertake a significant “Pivot”, and radically change the way you do things to ensure not just survival but success.
But equally, that may not be what you want, or more importantly what your customers want. You may need to make smaller changes, refine processes, update your systems or even just modify the language you use to talk to your customers.
Be it Pivot or Adaption, considering your customer needs and wants should be a significant part of your plan.
Now, this article is about motivation, so the words above are about WHY you may want to change. The most difficult part can be making the first step.
STEP ONE // DO NOT LET THE OPPORTUNITY PASS
STEP TWO // WHEN IN DOUBT, REFER TO STEP ONE
Every one of you who has got this far does need to find your own motivation. Is the crisis enough, or is there something about your situation that you really want to change? Sometimes the biggest obstacle is not knowing how you can possible achieve your goals. This is where the team at Canny Group can really help. We spend time with our clients understanding goals.
But it is the next part that can be the “secret to motivation”. Rather than stopping at identifying goals, we can work with you to identify the action steps, what you actually have to do, to move toward your goals. Not only that, we can keep you accountable to those actions.
This could be to do with your business goals, where our Accounting team will work with you.
It could be to do with your financial or retirement goals, where our Advisory team will work with you. And if you have goals with succession planning, litigation or asset protection the Legal team will work with you. Best of all, if you have goals the encompass a mixture or all of these, you can rest easy knowing we will work together to help you achieve them all.
A FINAL WORD ON MOTIVATION FOR CHANGE:
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to best adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself”
This quote could almost have been tailored to the times we find ourselves in today, but is also one that is often mis-represented as being a quote from Charles Darwin tied to his work “On the Origin of Species”. It was actually written by the significantly less famous Leon C. Migginson in “Civilisation Past and Present” in 1963. Fast forward 57 years and the quote holds true.
Adam Ramage – Senior Business Adviser + Accountant
B.Bus CA