5 Common Sense Insights for Business Success

John Cherveny
3 min readMar 14, 2019

By John Cherveny Stuart

Your career path is an endless series of choices. In fact, you make them every day, by choosing which opportunities to pursue as your business evolves.

No matter how insignificant some choices may seem, every choice you make impacts your business in some way.

However, one of the keys to achieving success is accepting that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone. Everyone’s journey is different. While success might seem like the result of sheer luck for some, for others it is the culmination of years of hard work.

Despite this, think about where you are right now and the life that you want to lead going forward. If you want to achieve success, you’ll have to work smarter. By doing so you can put yourself on the fast track to achieving the life you’ve always wanted.

Here are 5 ways to create breakthroughs in your life that will lead to business success:

1. Go All In In Your Business

You’ve probably put a lot of work into your business this year. However, are you as committed to creating success as you think you are? Sometimes our actions fail to bring us the results we want. Instead of figuring out what went wrong and trying to fix it, we tune out the problems. You try not to be too hard on yourself or make things more difficult than they already are.

Instead, you need to challenge yourself. If you want to create a breakthrough for success, stop and think about what your ideal business would look like right now. Write down how much you want to earn, your ideal clients, and more.

Then start figuring out how you can make it happen. Surprisingly, you’ll find that there are many things you just haven’t done because you didn’t take the initiative to do it!

2. Get Rid of the Distractions

We all procrastinate from time to time. Whether you enjoy online shopping or following celebs on social media, they’re all distractions. You’re not using your valuable time improve your business. Instead you’re wasting it on what’s easy instead of focusing new challenging and meaningful projects.

The remedy for this is to set aside time each day to turn off your devices. Instead you will use this time to focus on your business. Create a list of the time-waster activities in your life so that you can hold yourself accountable.

3. Change Your Negative Outlook

You’re directly contributing to your own failure every day if you’re not doing anything to stop your negative internal dialogue. Stop constantly thinking of the worst possible outcome of every situation. Continuously reminding yourself of how bad things are isn’t going change anything.

The easiest way to create a breakthrough for success is to start celebrating the small stuff. Congratulate yourself for the tasks you complete each day as a part of your success plan. When you achieve a minor goal for your business, throw yourself a mini-party! This boosts self-esteem and keeps your success plan on track.

4. Empathize With Your Customers

When I mentioned earlier that you can’t achieve success by doing what you’ve always done, this applies to your customers as well. In fact, one of the easiest ways to increase the success of your business is to leverage your existing customers. Create a plan to build greater rapport with your existing customer base. This will help to increase your revenues and will attract referrals to your business.

5. Take Action

I know for sure when I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing for the day, I feel uneasy. When you’re not following the success plan that you’ve set forth for business, your subconscious is going to remind you daily from now on. Now’s the time to put one foot in front of the other and take action! If you want business success, what are you going to do about it today?

In conclusion

You’ll never know the true potential of your business until you go all in. When you shift your approach to your career so that your business goals come first, you can fast track your success. In this post, we’ve listed 5 ways on how to do it.

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John Cherveny
John Cherveny

Written by John Cherveny

John Cherveny, owner of Homes By JMC shares his 30 plus years of experiences of what he believes makes life more satisfying and business more successful.

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