I had the great good fortune this past weekend to co-host Growthink’s third and final Business Blueprint Live event of the year.
This is a conference where entrepreneurs and business owners gather for three days and nights to dream, plan, and network as to how to best grow the revenues, increase the profits and better fulfill the missions of their businesses.
What is really neat is that because of its longer group and in-person format, there is time and space to really listen and, correspondingly, to be heard and to share best business practices, ideas, and inspirations for the New Year.
Golly – what a weekend!
The attendees that ventured from near and far and from the comforts of their homes and regular routines took a chance.
The chance that by “mixing it up a bit,” that breakthroughs would follow.
And they did.
From a medical device entrepreneur having that flash of insight as to how to best position his business for a strategic sale, to the software entrepreneur reflecting on how best to integrate a traditional marketing channel (radio) with a burgeoning one (texting), new and powerful business ideas and tactics were hatched and committed to.
And I was reminded of an old wisdom that I forget way too often.
It goes like this: when there is something “nutritious” in my life and business that I am resisting, it is that thing that above all else I need and should be doing.
It could be getting up early and doing that workout.
Or not having that second glass of wine.
Or sending those holiday cards.
Or taking that vacation.
Or, in business, making that call, writing that plan, structuring that partnership.
Going to that meeting, that conference.
And when you do, hold nothing back.
Don’t let any nagging doubts about whether this strategy, this decision, this job is the right one.
Just dive in.
Wasn’t this so much at the essence of Steve Jobs’ genius? This full commitment to do with fierce excellence whatever it was that he was working on at that particular time?
I saw and felt this full engagement this weekend.
Those there were fully there.
And from this full engagement, millions of dollars of business and conceptual breakthroughs and lovely relationships naturally flowed.
And when I reflect on these amazing outcomes, and then when I think back to the resistance I felt of not wanting to organize, not wanting to go to the event…
Well, it hits home that so important wisdom that when I really don’t want to do something that I know in my heart that I should…
…well that is the exact thing that I must do.
And then let the magic happen.
