100 – Growing You, Growing Your Business
The Big Idea: Business Growth and Personal Growth are inextricably linked (in a way that’s impossible to separate)
- As you work hard to grow your business, you can not help but grow yourself. Your bigger business forces you to become a bigger person.
Or
- As you work hard to grow your self – your bigger self creates capacity and confidence to take on more business.
It is a beautiful phenomenon and I have watched this happen in my own life for almost 40 years.
Early in my business startup someone recommended the book, Growing A Business, by Paul Hawken of Smith and Hawkins
That was the first time I was exposed to this idea…Growing a business, grows you.
“Being in business is not about making money, it is a way to become who you are.” – Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
I wrote this quote on an index card – 31 years ago. I was looking for something special for episode 100 – and I found it in my own work – that has been my tag line all along.
Growing You, Growing Your Business.
“It is a way to become who you are,” – think about that in terms of your potential.
You have this potential in you – but you need a way to get it out, some kind of outside force. Business is A Way to get it out – a business gets the potential in you, out of you, and you GROW.
Jim Rohn said something very similar to Paul Hawkin, “Make it your goal to earn a million dollars, not for the money, but for the person you have to become that can earn a million dollars.”
