Success is based on disciplines practiced daily.

Its true. We may not want to believe it, thinking we all are wild and crazy entrepreneurs with great insight, instinct and vision, capable of seeing into the future and carrying your business to success with energy, commitment and your belief in your mission…but it just ain’t so.

Success in anything is built on a foundation of disciplines. Actions that are repeated on time and developed until mastered and then practiced indefinitely.

Collecting receivables, paying payables  ordering materials, first in first out, or whatever your system is and your discipline requires.

Prospecting for new clients, servicing established clients, training, advertising,  production, servicing complaints, everything everything everything can be reduced to a system controlled by disciplines that result in a cohesive force reaching goals in an organized predictable manner.

A simple example…if you establish a strategy, a system to collect receivables and it consists of calling on the 27th day to remind the client and make certain there are no problems you can solve preventing payment and then getting assurances you will be paid, and if you repeat this every invoice, in a few months your clients will be trained to pay on time. You practiced a discipline without question or variation and succeeded in supporting important action from your clients.  in fact you may even master this discipline which means you are performing with excellence.

Paying attention is the most important discipline a business man can acquire. By paying attention to what we do, what we say we are going to do we can learn much and perform much more effectively. Practice paying attention, it is a discipline.

Paying attention requires us to detach our egos so we can be honest and accurate. Performing disciplines helps us achieve this goal. Start with simple disciplines and after 60-90 days of repeating it, you may become good at it and then can continue with less burden if you pay attention and do not allow your ego to interfere telling you that you no longer have to do this.

Succeeding at small disciplines leads to success with larger more difficult more important disciplines. It is a powerful path that will result in your achieving your goals and becoming successful. It begins and ends with disciplines designed to support your reaching your goals, if only you pay attention to it and do it.