Here in the US, we?re all preparing for the long Thanksgiving Day Holiday. For many entrepreneurs, this time of year begins the introspective process of taking stock of the year past and preparing to make plans and set goals for the coming year.? In working with several of my clients in their process of strategic planning, one theme seems to dominate the conversation?uncertainty.
It?s easy to plan when you sense your desired outcome is assured, your ideas can?t miss or are foolproof.? If you?re looking for signs that certainty in our economy, or the actions of our politicians is at hand, or even around the corner?get over yourself. Nothing has ever been certain and nothing will ever be more certain than it is right now. There simply is no such thing as certainty, only ambiguity.
It?s against the backdrop of ambiguity that all entrepreneurs make their precious plans. But there is an idea I?d like to suggest you ponder as you begin your strategic planning for the coming year.? It?s called the Law of Compensation.
This is an idea as old as human civilization itself. The Law of Compensation simply states that inevitably, through all uncertainty, our own comes to us, and only what is our own. As we apply this idea to life and business and watch for certain results, it gets down to the pure idea of reaping what you sow, action equals reaction? there is a Law that governs all success. If your thinking is fixed on what you don?t have, if you are focused on your limitations or lack of resources, you get what comes with that thinking- your own will come to you.
If your year-end planning involves the desire to gain better paying, higher value clients then take better care of the clients you currently have. Everything is a reflection of the current state of mind. It?s counter productive to plan for a higher level of game when your current level is dominated by any thinking or action of limitation.
When you perform to the very best of your ability, and are thorough in your service to your clients, you bring out the best there is in you. In other words, you elevate your game and become more. You become better, and thereby demonstrate your growing expertise. In doing so, the Law of Compensation says she who becomes better will attract better and be given better things to do!
The principle involved is that when you become too large for your present place you will begin to draw yourself to something larger. You can?t attract the better until you first become the larger. Like water, you find your true level.
You can only build on what you create.
The Law of Compensation works slowly but surely. You can?t build your success on the substance or virtue of what others have created. You can only build on your own creativity and innovation.? Stop thinking in the competitive realm; don?t try to compete with anyone or anything.? Rather than competition, call it compensation-which means equal return for that which is given. The greater your service, the greater your reward and the more your business will grow. Inevitably the Law of Compensation produces its own exactness as a rule of action.
As you begin the process of planning for your greater success, you may want to consider how this Law is currently working in your business and in your entire life.? Whatever your current circumstances, they are you own. Your own and all of your own will come to you.
??I rave no more? gainst time or fate, for lo my own shall come to me?
- John Burroughs
?Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Source: http://www.whitehotcenter.com/2012/11/the-law-of-compensation-in-your-strategic-planning/
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