Your business sucks, and what you can do about it. Honestly, most business owners are their own worst enemy, and they suck the life out of their business and stop it progressing. They can be terrible at taking responsibility, and they push anything that's accountable on to other people. It's a classic trait with a lot of the businesses that are starting up now that are run by millennials. They want to have all the things, but they don't want to spend the time to get all the things.

Looking Back

After being in business for 19 years, I can comfortably say that it takes a long time. You're not going to be a millionaire in a year. It's going to take you a long time to get to where you want to go, and where your goals are in life. The last thing you want to be doing is sucking the life out of your business. It could be anything that you're doing. You might be on Facebook a bit too much. Your Diet might not be great. Your direction might not be great.

Review

You need to review where your time goes, and assess what is important to you in business. For me, I know when I analyse myself, I stepped back and looked at my life retrospectively only a few years ago. I thought, "Where am I? Where do I want to be, and how the hell did I end up here?" It was a scary time. Things passed through my mind where I thought maybe I'll jump out of business, I don't know if this is what I should be doing, maybe my time is better spent somewhere else. I had a lot of reflection time of about two months, to be honest. That's where I came to the conclusion I love my business, and I wanted it to continue to be the vehicle to success, and I've made it that. I was overweight. I was 110 kilos. I didn't have the best eating habits. I didn't have the best drinking habits. That's not to say that I was drinking excessively, but I wouldn't mind a pint or two over dinner. I wasn't getting smashed, but I would sit there and watch TV on the idiot box while eating crap food and having a couple of beers, which was a lot of empty, unneeded calories.

Make Positive Change

I was working well when I was working, but I wasn't really pushing myself as fast and as far forward as I wanted to. A lot of people have this and a lot of people look to different crutches such as smoking or something like that. You need to take the time out and have a think about why you're in business, and where you want to be in a year, or in a month, or in 10 years, or what you're going to be remembered for, and what's going to be said at your eulogy when you pass away. What are the legacies you're leaving behind? I changed from a heavy in meat and carbohydrate diet, to a diet that consists of 80% raw vegetables, and I'm very happy that I did that. I managed to lose 38 kilos in six months and, for the most part, keep that weight off. My mental status is so much better than what it was beforehand because I did this. Going to the gym releases chemicals in your body that make you feel good. Not only that, when you're talking to prospects they can see that your life is under control.

You've got control over your own body, you've got control of your own image, and that means that ultimately, other aspects of your life you have control of. I'm not saying if you're overweight, you don't have control. Obviously there's lots of reasons why people can be obese, and why people might have a few extra kilos to lose, and everyone has image problems. No one's happy with how they look. Just knowing that you've done that and the success that you have in your own head from doing that, is more important than what anyone else can ever think. Become the person you aspire to be. When you sit back, and you'll think about your life retrospectively, you'll come to realise that the prison that you've created can be escaped.

Final Thought

There's a saying that goes, "you must first realise the prison of your mind before you can escape it." Be there and get rid of those bad thoughts. Be the person that you're meant to be, and be the best person you can be in business.