Why I Decided to Run My Business Like A Burger King

I remember this one day when I was younger. My room was a wreck. My mom had finally had it, and had told me it had to get cleaned. Today. Or else. (or else what I don’t remember at this point… but it was clear it needed to be done that day).

So I went about cleaning my room. I put things away. Picked clothes up off the floor. Hung clothes up in the closet that needed hanging.

My room was clean… so I called her in to have a look. I was so proud that I’d spent so much time and done a really good job.

She opened the closet door and noticed that I’d hung the hangers “backwards”. I had the hooks over the bar facing toward me, instead of facing toward the back of the closet. She told me this was wrong, and I had to do them all over again, pulled each one out of the closet, making my room a mess again.

Now she may have said I’d done a good job on the rest of the room, quite frankly I don’t remember.

What I do remember is even though I’d done the job… I’d cleaned my room.

It wasn’t right, and I had to do it over again.

This happened frequently… when folding sheets. When folding towels. When doing the dishes.

I can’t even count the times I asked myself, well if you’re just going to redo it because I didn’t do it “right” why don’t you just do it yourself the first time and stop wasting my time?!

But it became ingrained in me that there is a “right” way to do things. That “right” way comes from somewhere outside of me. It comes from a “higher authority”, and if I want to succeed I need to do it “the right way”. Their way.

Well this is all fine and good if you’re talking about folding a towel long ways first, and then to the center and over… it has some flaws when you’re talking about being an entrepreneur and building an online business.

It’s funny… until this month I didn’t realize how this one belief had so seriously affected so many areas of my life.

The awakening (as I call it) came about because my company has a convention. It’s part of the core commitments (aka the right way to build this business) to go to all the events. I just could not make it a priority to get to this one… we’ve got so many other things going right now that took a lot of our resources, time and energy. Flying to Miami just wasn’t part of the plan as it stood today. Was it part of the plan 3 months ago when I bought my ticket to attend the event. Yes. But, life is malleable, it changes and things have changed for us since then.

It was interesting though… I found myself anxious. I found myself irritable. I found myself grouchy. I found myself trying to find ways and reasons why this whole thing isn’t going to work, and I should just quit all together.

WTF?

I was talking to my friend and mentor one day and she said…

It’s your business. You’ve got to do it your way.

Doh. What?

I started thinking about it. What it would feel like, what it would look like, what would I do, how I would act if I started thinking that it was my business… and I had to do it my way.

Immediately… all the things I had conjured up to make me quit were gone. I was immediately changed. I started seeing everything through new eyes, and was in love again. I stopped noticing all the little things that I was choosing to focus on to drive me crazy… and drive me away from my business.

So guess what happened?

I immediately saw a spike in my traffic. Like more than double what I had been getting.

I immediately started getting leads again. (oh yeah, did I mention through that angsty time my lead flow had dwindled to ZERO ~ yeah).

I started getting more leads than I’d ever gotten in a day.

I immediately felt inspired to write again.

I immediately gained clarity and was able to specifically state what MY WAY was, and feel GOOD about doing it

So… the event starts today. Pictures are already showing up of my friends and business partners standing in front of the gorgeous blue ocean in Miami.

I was really nervous about how that was going to feel… I thought I might get angsty all over again…

but nope. I haven’t. I wish I could be there, because I only get to see some of these friends every 3 months… and I love them dearly, but no, I felt excited for them. I felt hopeful for them, and for me. I love the events. Every time I go I have some sort of breakthrough. I was feeling a little sad that I was going to miss my breakthrough this time.

Then I realized… I’d already had one. 🙂

I will be watching all the videos coming in from my team and my friends who are there, and I’ll revel in their learning, and soak in all I can of the powerful event energy they send back to us, and I’ll enjoy the journey today, from home, knowing, it’s my business… and I’ll do it my way. (and it will still work).

Have an amazing day… and remember, you can do it your way!

PS. One of the best things I can do to help myself stay on my path… is to have a team behind me, to have a bloggy buddy who has my back… and to have a system that does 99% of the stuff that’s “not” my way. That’s what I’ve found in my business… if you’re curious how you can be part of the team, do it your way… and make good money, click here. I’ll show you how I got started.