Your specific income goals should always be where you business strategy planning starts. If you don’t have a strong “why” you want to invest in the business, you can’t begin to start on the “how.”
What is the greatest asset you have in your business?
I know the knee jerk reaction is “my customers” or “my employees”.
I know they are both great assets, but consider again. They are not the greatest.
You, are the greatest asset to your business. It is you.
If it is not a “Hell YES”, it’s a “NO”.
It has gotten that simple these days.
That is where the third habit of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People comes into play.
Habit Three: Put First Things First.
Not only in business but in life itself, because there is really no separation. There is just life.
Learn 5 simple steps to turn your Vision of a Self Storage Future into reality by putting in time the next “First Thing” that will move you forward.
When my Grandson Jackson was in the first grade, at his first “Leadership” day at his school, he informed me that he will start college in 2025.
I don’t even think he knows what college is.
I have created a $60,000,000 self-storage portfolio by 2015.
When I created that initial goal, I had no idea what that meant either.
It really takes a lot to be successful in any business today, especially in the self-storage industry.
I really think my Grandson Jackson is being trained to be successful in life. He is in the second grade and his school district has taken on teaching the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to the children from kindergarten through high school.
The first of the seven habits is “Be Proactive”.
