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Are You Asking Too Much Permission From Others About How To Run Your Business?

August 9, 2012 by Sue Painter 8 Comments

Here's a short MP3 recording that will give you the 4 signs that you're not looking into your own vision enough to run your small business.  Or, for that matter, the rest of your life, either.  Need help with this?  My next Visionary Business Leader group starts August 14th.  You can check it out at this link.  Small investment, great return.  But first, listen to this!

Stop Asking, Start Leading

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  1. @MagneticSilvia says

    September 10, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    I love the idea of leading from your own vision. We all love visionary leaders and it only makes sense to be one in order to move beyond our limitations. Great post Sue!

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  2. Jennifer Bourn says

    September 10, 2012 at 10:40 am

    Love this Sue!

    It’s easy to get stuck due to fear. The rules and expectations put on us by others — the “shoulds” — thrown in our faces as entrepreneurs can be overwhelming. It seems like everyone has an opinion on what we SHOULD be doing, how we SHOULD be doing it, where we SHOULD be, why we SHOULD be, etc.

    But their “shoulds” don’t matter unless you let them. If you want it, go for it. If it feels right to you, it’s right. If it fits your family, it fits. There isn’t one cookie cutter approach everyone fits in … and all the shoulds others put on you are just reflections of the insecurities and fears they have themselves.

    If someone keeps telling you that you should get a stable job instead of starting your own business, it says ore about their fear of taking the rik, that about what you’re really doing.

    Jennifer Bourn, Bourn Creative

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  3. Terry Monaghan | Time Triage says

    September 10, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Sue – exactly right! “Anyone can start a business but few can step up and into being the visionary leader…” Standing in your vision and taking action from there can take a lot of courage. Especially when your intuition is telling you to go in a direction very different from where you see everyone else going. The rewards are great, but without a firm grasp on the vision, you could easily be convinced to conform.

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  4. Phil Dyer says

    September 10, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Love it, Sue! One thing that West Point and the military actually cured me of was asking permission. I am a big fan of begging forgiveness if something goes wrong ;-)!

    Thanks for the great audio…

    Phil Dyer
    Chief Visionary | Broughton Advisory
    http://www.broughtonadvisory.com

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  5. Patricia Lynn says

    September 9, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    I think trusting yourself is one of the main keys to success in business and in life – you mailed it, Sue!

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  6. Mary Ellen Miller says

    September 8, 2012 at 10:25 am

    Sue, good points to trust our inner selves as leaders! This reminds me of how important it is for me to have an intern. Sharing ideas with a bright, young communications student makes the two of us together have a “bigger” vision than I would alone.

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  7. Jeff Brunson says

    September 7, 2012 at 10:44 am

    A colleague in Ohio recently said to me, “I’ve become a confident leader of my life.” Listening to your recording made me think about this friend, and how I need to be more mindful of my own leadership in my own life … and my work is my life and my life my work. Thanks for being an encourager of trusting the “ought” of who we are and not in the “shoulds” of the world around.

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  8. Eric Benson says

    September 6, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Spot on, Sue! The number of people willing to tell others “what they should be doing” is so great, and the “what” so often just happens to be what they are selling, that one simply must trust the path they see for themselves or they’ll continually be stepping off that path to check out “the latest-n-greatest, whiz-bangy tool or technique”. I agree with you, Sue, one should stay on her/his Path, and when people do this I believe they’ll be the Happy-Beings they were always meant to be 🙂

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