Want To Grow? Don’t Go It Alone.

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and today I want to talk to you about
independence versus dependence versus
cooperation versus team-building all of
that kind of wrapped up in one we often
are exposed to articles YouTube videos
pieces of media that attempt to give us
skills that make us more competent all
by ourselves we don’t have to rely on
anybody we don’t need anybody we don’t
need any support we don’t need any
outside influence we can do this all by
ourselves and there’s something to be
said for being able to be independent
there’s something to be said for being
able to solve problems on your own and
able to survive on your own and able to
cope with emergencies on your own
especially when you’re on your own when
you’re by yourself when you’re looking
at ways to increase your ability to be
successful and your growth as a
performer as an entrepreneur as a brand
maybe you’ve created a business I can
guarantee you that you will reach a
certain point where you can’t grow any
more or at least any faster if you don’t
start to include other people and those
other people don’t mean you have to hire
a team that’s one way of doing it right
but getting involved with peers just
discussing what you’re doing with peers
mentors people that have been where you
are have gone on to other things can
share with you some of their successes
and some of their challenges and how
they solve those challenges coaches and
teachers and yes staff interns I can
tell you that when I was growing my
business it didn’t get any bigger until
I started to add other coaches a virtual
assistant
now have to I now have five coaches
other than me I have to tech people
actually three tech people and I
wouldn’t have been able to build my
businesses without those other people
and the thing is when you plan for
things it’s always so much fun to bounce
those ideas off of other people we’re
about to do a huge reboot of my company
this year and sharing those ideas with
my team has been really really rewarding
networking is a skill building
relationships is a skill that is really
valuable it’s not only valuable in terms
of other people having input and and
assisting you with moving forward but
just in terms of creating relationships
in all areas vendors and customers and
suppliers and team members and advisers
and so on
building skills being in a class with
somebody as opposed to being in a class
by yourself I always tell people when we
launch vo to go go every year find
somebody to go through this with you
because it’s always better to talk about
these things bounce things off of other
people than it is to just sort of sit
there in isolation and hope to hell that
you’re getting it right that you’re
getting what you need right execution
reworking when something isn’t working
even celebration is a lot more fun when
there are other people involved you know
what I mean
I remember the first big win that I had
when it was just me you know I think I
went over to Gordon Biersch and I don’t
drink beer I grabbed a glass of wine and
I sat there and I thought huh this just
might work you know but I noted how it
was kind of lonely it was kind of like
you know I’m the only one that knows
about this right so it’s become a lot
more fun now that I’ve added people in
my life and added people to my crew and
added a lot more clients and you know so
the whole idea is don’t try to stick it
out by yourself if that’s all you’ve got
I understand
but if you really want to start to build
and accelerate that growth of what
you’re trying to do take a long hard
look at adding more people to your
sphere of influence and to those that
you influence right and let me know what
you think about that have you kind of
stopped when it got to the point where
you maybe needed to talk about having
somebody added in your life either a
staff member or a partner or even a peer
you’re concerned they’re gonna find out
about what you do and maybe it’s not as
good as you think or they’ll steal stuff
from you or who knows what is it that
stops you what is it that made you add
people to your world right let me know
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xvii thank you so much for watching and
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