Hiring the right person for you, first time, every time! Wouldn't that be great?

By the time you’ve read this blog, I want to have convinced you that it’s possible. Not only possible but pleasurable; that it’s an exciting opportunity to build your high-performing team and grow your business.

I’ll go through the three steps to a great job advert and there’s a template too which you can download. I’m going to share with you my two golden rules for hiring and show how, if you embrace these, you will be well on the path to hiring a ‘keeper’.

One of the questions I always ask my clients is ‘How many of your current team would you re-hire tomorrow if you were given the chance?’

So…how many would you re-hire?

If you say all of them I’ll be delighted for you, and also a little surprised, as that's only happened to me once since I started asking the question.

Most people have at least one person in their business who was never right, the rotten apple in the barrel. ‘Ugh John, what a pain’ or ‘It’s just Janet, she’s always miserable.’

You've put up with Janet and John for years rather than removing them from the team; knowing that neither should ever have been hired in the first place - they were never a good fit for you, your team or the business.

So how to avoid this?

I have two golden rules for hiring:
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Golden rule No. 1
Never, hire in a hurry.

Why? Because anything you do in a hurry tends to be botched. You’re rushing to plug a gap; hiring somebody to make up the numbers.

You hire in a hurry, you make mistakes.

Golden rule No. 2

Always hire to your values.

Think about why you’re hiring. You're not just hiring a body. You're not looking for someone who's going to clock on, park their brain at the door, and then clock off at the end of the day. You want somebody who is engaged. You want somebody who cares about what you care about - who buys into that goose bump-giving inspiring vision of yours; who has the same values as you.

You’re hiring a mind and a heart, not a body.

Things go wrong when you ignore the golden rules and only look at skills and experience; when you hire in a hurry cos it’s all just too much hassle; when you abdicate responsibility to a third party.

Change your mindset around hiring - see it as an opportunity to add to your highly engaged, high performing team - invest time and energy in this crucial task…and get creative…even with your job ad.

Think differently.

So many people put out the job description as a job ad. ‘You will be responsible for, you will have so and so reporting to you, you must be able to do this, that and the other.’

Who's inspired by that sort of job ad?

No-one. So when it comes to your job ad I want you to lead with three things.

1. The vision and purpose of your business.
   You want to inspire people, so tell them about the purpose of your business and where you’re going with it? Tell them about your inspiring picture for the future; your goose-bump-giving vision.
   
   
2. Next, the purpose of the role.
   Tell them how the role adds value to the business; how crucial it is. Tell them how it fits into the bigger picture; how it adds value to the team, your customers, you.
   
   
3. Finally, a pen portrait of the individual that you're looking for. A picture of the person you’re looking for written as if you are in their shoes. ‘I leap out of bed every morning looking forward to the day. I like an early start, to get ahead of the game. I love being part of a team, working together to get the job done.  I like to be supportive too, helping my teammates out when they need it. I’m really big on detail - my pet hate is sloppy mistakes.’ You get the idea.
   
   Think about the person you're looking for, the sort of role that you've got for them, and write your pen portrait as if you are them and this is their ideal.You want them to be reading going, ‘That's me, that’s me, that’s so me!’

If you want to know what this looks like click here to get your hands on a template which explains what you need in each section and gives you an example of what the ad might look like.

So let’s recap. 

Take your time when you're hiring.

Know your vision and values.

Write your job ad to inspire your ideal candidates.

And you will be well on your way to hiring the right person for you, first time.

Of course, there’s more to it than just that, but all in good time!

Do one thing: Download your job ad template here and use it for your next hire.

ps Don’t miss out on the launch offer for my new book ‘Simple Logical Repeatable’ - only 99p for the kindle version on Amazon, 18th & 19th July. 

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

You’ve probably noticed I’ve been talking quite a lot about McFreedom and having a McFreedom mindset recently.

And you’ve possibly been thinking ‘ What on Earth is this McFreedom thing all about?’

Well McFreedom is a word I use to describe ‘The freedom to scale, grow, sell or franchise your business or run it from a beach somewhere if that's what you really want to do.’

The Mc of McFreedom is a little nod to McDonald's who inspired it and the Freedom, because that's what The McFreedom System®️ will give you.

Ok. But why the focus on Mindset?

Because most people have a very strange mindset around systems in relation to their business. They see them as really hard work; something that they have to do in addition to their day job and the thought of systemising really doesn’t rock their boat.

Personally, I don't like the word 'process', largely again because of what it inspires in people. It makes them think of bureaucracy and box-ticking and all of that really boring, soul destroying stuff that they think they’ll have to do.

McFreedom - and The McFreedom System®️ - is all about making your life easier, and to do that you need to change your mindset around systems.

Mindset is one third of something I like to call my big MAC ... what a surprise!

Mindset because you really do need to change your mindset around systems and what they will do for you.

Action because you absolutely have to take action. What’s the point in learning something new if you don't take action on it. And

Consistency because you need to be consistent in the action that you take. You need to make it routine. You need to follow it, if not religiously, then with a real fervour and a relish and a belief that it's going to make your life that much easier.

So Mindset, Action, Consistency ... your big Mac.

Do you have a positive big MAC when it comes to systemising your business?

Do one thing: Think about it!

[Adapted from Marianne's new book Simple Logical Repeatable available from an Amazon near you https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simple-Logical-Repeatable-Systemise-McDonalds/dp/1781332266]

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

Over the past few years I’ve talked to a lot of business owners who are struggling with how much they have to get done, and let’s face it, us business owners have a lot of ‘stuff’ to do. So much stuff and all of it urgent. A bulging inbox controlling our day, forcing us to react, impossible to prioritise.

Just overwhelming!

Of course, everyone has days like this – where you can’t see the wood for the trees, where your to-do list for the day is so long it will take you to the middle of next week just to get through half of it. Those days when you don’t feel like your life is your own; when you’re working to other people’s priorities and everyone wants a piece of you; when you feel completely chaotic and out of control.

As one-offs, these days are manageable – there are simple tools and techniques to get you through them, to deal with them, and still get stuff done. But it’s when these days start to merge, when as a new client said to me, ‘Overwhelm becomes the norm’, when you forget where the hell you’re going, let alone how you’re going to get there.

That’s when overwhelm has become a real issue. That’s when you lose focus on your vision; when what’s really important to you seems a million miles away. So what do you do? You go chasing off down rabbit holes looking for the answers – in time-management programmes and apps.

You start subscribing to lots of ‘successful people’ – you know, those people who seem to have it all – looking for the magic pill that’s going to bring you their success. And of course, that’s exactly what it is – their success. You start to believe that success only comes through long hours and even harder work. You lose sight of what’s really important to you; what success means to you; what your ideal future looks like.

Arghhhhhh.....

So, what can you do about it?

Well, you can start by asking yourself this one killer question:

What am I trying to achieve, and why?

I’m a pretty organised person these days, and this one question (ok, technically two) still has a massive impact on how focused I am, and how much I get done on a day-to-day and month- to-month basis.

It’s a powerful question, whether you’re thinking about the next year, or the next hour.

To find your answer, go back to what I talked about in this blog a few weeks ago, when I asked you to look at your personal vision – what you really want for yourself – the Big Dream.

Are you really clear about what you’re trying to achieve, and why? Because when you are, you’re ready for the simple exercise that will get rid of overwhelm every time it raises its ugly head.

And here it is:

Step 1
Decide on the timeframe that’s overwhelming you. Is it what you have on today, tomorrow, the coming week, the coming month?

Step 2
Next, get yourself a big sheet of paper and a pen.

Step 3
Write down everything – and I mean everything you believe you have to get done in the coming week: personal, business, everything...

Step 4
Once you’ve done that–once you’ve exhausted everything – and you’re sure you have it all on that sheet of paper, grab a big, black marker pen.

Step 5
Go through your list and cross off everything that doesn’t move you towards what you’re trying to achieve; everything that doesn’t move you towards your big vision.
Be ruthless here, look for other people’s priorities on this list and get them crossed off. Look for things that are easy to do, or that feed your inner procrastinator – like setting up a to-do list app, or reading through all those emails you’ve subscribed to – and get those crossed off too.
Cross off anything that doesn’t move you to where you now know that you want to be. Ruthless is the key word.

Step 6
There will be things on your list that do have to be done, but most of them should not be done by you; things like book-keeping, expenses, managing your database.
These things can stay, but they get moved onto a second list, called ‘Delegate’. Add all the things that need to be done, but not by you, to this list

Recognise those things that you may be busying yourself with that are not moving you, or your business, or your life in the right direction.

What you are left with after this exercise are three lists:

• Your Do list – the things you’re going to do because they move you towards your vision
• Your Ditch list – full of other people’s stuff, and things that you’ve just got into the bad habit of adding to your list every day
• Your Delegate list – things that you’re going to get other people to do

In a future blog we’ll talk about who to delegate to, and how to delegate effectively, but for now, just give this a go and see what it does for your overwhelm. I promise you, it works like magic.

You have to be ruthless though, and you have to get over your guilt about ditching other people’s priorities. Just remember that’s exactly what they are – other people’s priorities, not yours! You have plenty of your own to be getting on with.


Do One thing today: Your DO, DITCH OR DELEGATE exercise! 

[This is an excerpt from Marianne’s new book, Simple, Logical, Repeatable, available now on Amazon at: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781332266]

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

In the last few weeks we've created your inspiring business vision and we've begun work on your business planning, but even the most inspiring vision, and the smartest of SMART plans will be wasted, if you don't have an effective personal management system.

Your daily routine is the cornerstone of your personal management system, and should be crammed full of habits that will maximise your productivity, and move you closer to your big vision.

Get into the habit of planning your day the evening before (and your week on a Sunday evening). At the end of the day, you’re usually very clear about what still needs to done, what the priorities are, what tomorrow’s frog* will be. Advanced planning like this makes sure that you hit the ground running.

Chunk your work into 90 minute segments. This is a good timeframe for focus, and FOCUS is the key word - don’t multi-task - if you’re going to work on a sales letter, work on it for the full 90 minutes, or until it’s done, if you can do it within the 90.

Work out which part of the day you’re at your peak - for me it’s first thing in the morning - and use that 90 minutes to ‘eat your frog’ - *do the thing that you don't necessarily want to do, but that’s weighing you down mentally, because you know you really need to get it done.

Just get focused and eat the damn frog! It’s a really good success habit to get into.

Set yourself mini deadlines - always good for those of us who like a bit of ‘last minute pressure’ - make them ‘drop-dead’-lines too! Absolute must delivers!

Breaks are always a good deadline. Holidays are also excellent. Ever noticed how much more you get done in the days leading up to a holiday, or the minutes leading up to any deadline.

Both breaks and holidays are essential for your long-term productivity too - refreshing and re-energising your mind and body. The most successful businessmen and women really get this, and have made breaks long and short, a habit they will always keep.

Other daily routines and success habits that are good for your mind and body, include taking at least 30 minutes exercise a day - even if it’s just a walk down the road and back - and drinking plenty of water - two litres is the recommended amount isn’t it? I’m no scientist, but I can testify to the power of a lunchtime walk for clearing your head and setting you up for a productive afternoon.

For successful business owners, there are two other personal management essentials:

1. An assistant or PA
There are only so many things that you can be brilliant at, or that really get your juices flowing; for everything else, you need an assistant - someone who will keep you organised, do the really important, but really boring (to you) stuff that eats away at your time.
A mentor of mine refers to the £10ph, £100ph and £1000ph tasks in your business. Which are you spending all of your precious time on?

And talking of mentors, the second essential is

2. A mentor
What I’ve learned from the mentors I’ve worked with, is that they get you to the next level faster; they get you to raise your game - to see things from a different viewpoint - they share their expertise to help you grow.
Your mentor is a key member of your support team - the sounding board and advisor who speeds up your journey to the results you’re looking for.

Your personal management system takes discipline and time to develop, but when you learn to manage yourself, the business will be a piece of cake!

Do one thing: Spot that frog and eat it…Gulp…

[This is an excerpt from Marianne’s new book, Simple, Logical, Repeatable, available now on Amazon at: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781332266] 

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

‘I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose..’  George Carlin

It's very easy to get stuck in a rut.  Sometimes we don't even recognise that we're in one. 

A rut's boring, same old same old, dull...right?! And that's not our life!

Well what if it is?

Many successful small business owners get stuck in a rut.  It's called The Struggle, and while it's anything but boring, it's definitely a rut. Some find that they can't get out of it. Many more don't want to.  It's comfortable, they know where they're at with it, it's their norm.

They tell themselves that they've already stepped out of their comfort zone to create their business.  They tell themselves that they are successful, and that running a successful business comes at a price - no time and no life beyond it.  They tell themselves they're ok with that, and they're surrounded by other Strugglers who confirm that they're right.

They revel in war stories of their 80 hour weeks, and comfort themselves that they are still working to improve themselves by attending weekend seminars and late evening webinars, while other 'less successful' people are enjoying time with family and friends.  They've created a new comfort zone, and their rut's too deep to see beyond it.

Your personal management system will get you out of your rut, but it needs 3 things to be be successful

1. Discipline - in developing your success habits and daily routines, in ditching the stuff that doesn’t serve you and delegating to your assistant and your team, in listening to your mentor.
   
2. Celebration - celebrating all of your wins, no matter how small they are.
   
3. Integrity - keeping your commitments to others, and to yourself, persevering with your habits and sticking to deadlines.

Learn to manage yourself, and the business will be a piece of cake!

Do one thing: Ask yourself, 'Does my business run me, or do I run my business?'

[This is an excerpt from Marianne's new book, Simple, Logical, Repeatable, available now on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781332266]

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

‘Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.’  Zig Ziglar

In a recent blog we asked you to get really clear about your vision.

Now the question is how to achieve it.

Focus is the key!

Even with a clear vision, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the mountain of ideas, tactics and goals that might lead us towards its achievement. So we need a way to chunk the mountain down into smaller more manageable hills.

I call these smaller hills my Focus Areas!
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Focus Areas

The corporates may look on them as strategies, some may think of them simply as priorities. The name doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that you have them – that you take your mountain, look at what it’s made up of, and group similar goals, ideas and tactics together.

Remember though, this is all about focus, so you can’t have a dozen focus areas – it kind of defeats the object of the exercise. Four or five, maximum six, will keep you properly focused and make your planning and delivery a whole lot easier.

For example, McDonald’s focus on People, Place, Promotion, Price, Product.

At MPL (Marianne Page Ltd) we also have five areas for focus: Bums on Seats, Visibility & Influence, Products, Partnerships and People.

For each focus area we set an overall aim, or intention, that’s in line with our vision, and which will move us closer to achieving it. As you read our intentions for each focus area take note of the language – it’s ‘act as if’ language - we say that it is as we want it to be, then it’s up to each member of the team to make what we say we do, a reality.

Bums on Seats

• We attract the business owners who will benefit most from The McFreedom System®️
• We stay true to our limited numbers principle, to enable us to give focused attention to every business owner who works with us
• We fill the room with six- and seven-figure business owners for every McFreedom Secrets workshop

Visibility & Influence

• The Marianne Page brand is recognised as the go-to for six- and seven-figure business owners who want to scale, grow, sell or franchise
• We have a reputation for quality, service and delivery on our promises
• We are regularly invited to speak at events, and comment in the media, aimed at successful business owners

Products

• We develop and deliver world class products which move our clients closer to their McFreedom
• We serve a global market

Partnerships

• We develop mutually beneficial relationships with partner businesses, who can add value to our clients, or where we can add value to theirs

People

• We have a high performing core team, plus a number of trusted associates, who deliver a world-class service to our clients, both online and offline

People is an essential focus area for every business, guiding hiring and development decisions, ensuring that you have the right people, in the right place, at the right time to move the business forward. Your people plan will underpin and support your other focus areas.

So, these are the focus areas and intentions that I believe will take us to our vision. What are yours?

Because when you are clear what your focus areas are, and what you want each focus area to deliver for you – your aim or intention – you can then begin to develop fully focused goals and plans.

Do one thing: Work out what your key Focus Areas are, and what you want each to deliver.

Taken from Marianne's new book Simple Logical Repeatable, coming soon to an Amazon near you!

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

‘Keeping in touch with your values is a lifelong exercise.’

If your vision is your goose-bump-giving, inspiring, picture of your future, and your plans are the route map to take you there, then what are your values?

The Dictionary defines values as… ‘principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of what is important in life’.

For me, they are the compass that guides every decision, every action, and the way you behave every single day.

We all have values whether we recognise them as such, or not, and our life is much easier when we understand what they are and align our plans, decisions and behaviours with them.

For example, if you value family, but you work 70-hour weeks, you’ll feel internal stress and conflict. If you don't value financial risk, you’re unlikely to start your own business.

Being clear about your values, helps you to make decisions and take actions that are fully aligned with them. When you’re in tune with your values, your gut will reflect them. Go against your gut and you might well be going against your values.

As you move through life, your values may change. For example, when you start out, success – measured by money and status – might be a top priority. But as you get older, perhaps after you have a family, you may value work-life harmony more.

Keeping in touch with your values is a lifelong exercise.

When thinking about what your values are, ask yourself:

• How do I want my business, and the people in it to operate?
• What are the principles I hold dear, that I won’t compromise, that I would like my business to be known for?
• What are the qualities I aspire to - that I live my life by, and want my team to share?
• How do I want to run my business?

Decide what’s important to you and how you’ll demonstrate it in your business, because what you do is a megaphone for what you believe in.  You may genuinely believe and therefore say, one thing, but your actions and behaviours may well be saying another.

Let me give you an example from a private client I worked with a while ago.. and the feedback I gave them, which illustrates the point.

‘You say that you want a quality operation, but your team believe that you won’t pay enough to bring in quality people.’

‘You say that you want a team that takes ownership for their role and how it is performed, but your team see you needing to be consulted on every decision, and keeping tight control.’

‘You say that you want a fast-paced organisation that grows at speed, but you over-analyse everything and take forever to make decisions.’

‘You make commitments - to have management team meetings, to install a reward scheme, and so on - but don’t stick to these commitments.’

‘You say that you value your people - but you cancel training sessions and team events’

‘You say that you value your clients and want them to have first class service - but you ignore customer feedback and seem accepting of failure to deliver on time.’

What you DO is a megaphone for what you believe in.

So what do you believe in? What would your team say you Value?

When asked this question, business owners will usually say things like honesty, integrity, customer focus, maybe fairness - clearly good values, but to be honest, these are standard principles that every business owner should live by. Business Values 101. The expected minimum.

Your values are all about you and the personality of your business - you’re going to hire team members who share those values - you’re going to attract customers who love your values. You want these values to inspire, to attract, to hold everything together.

A brand strategy business I know has the following as their values:

• Build Inspiration
• Dream Bigger
• Embrace Quirky
• Tell it like it is
• Expand your world
• Live the Brand

That’s who they are. That’s how they behave. Everything about their brand fits with these values.

So?  Who are you?

Do one thing: Work that out.  Then ask yourself, and your team, if your day to day behaviour reflects who you are and what you believe in.

Taken from Marianne's new book Simple Logical Repeatable, coming soon to an Amazon near you!

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

When I was starting out on my own I had a dream of what I wanted to achieve, but like many dreams, it was hazy and unfocused, and I could never tell anyone what it was all about with any clarity. I wasn’t absolutely clear where I was going, and we all know what happens when you’re not sure where you’re going...you get lost!

And I did.

I ventured down so many rabbit holes, wandered into so many blind alleys, found myself in so many cul-de-sacs, desperately trying to get to...where?

You could say it was all part of my vertical learning curve, but looking back it feels like 18 months of wasted time, effort, and money!

Knowing your destination is crucial. It keeps you focused. It inspires your team. It gives purpose and meaning to your planning.

What is Your Vision?

When you’re thinking about your Vision, think about the impact you want to make, the influence you want to have, the legacy you want to leave.

Think ‘the best we can be’. Think ‘making a real difference’. Think BIG!

Your Vision should give you goosebumps every time you look at it, and connect with the hearts and minds not only of your team, but also of your ideal clients.

This is about the future you see for yourself and your business, your destination, so write it in terms of the future:

‘We will be...’ or ‘Our Vision is to be...’

At MPL (Marianne Page Ltd)
‘Our Vision is to be bigger than Gerber! Influencing every 6&7 figure business owner across the globe, to build the foundation systems that will give them the freedom to scale, sell , grow or franchise their business...or run it from a beach somewhere.’

It’s not about where you are now, (more of that in a future blog) it’s where you’re headed - your destination.

What’s the time frame?

People often talk about their 10 year Vision for their business, and it’s a great timeframe for the majority of us. But if your personal plan is to sell up and move to Bali in 4 years’ time, then the 10 year Vision doesn’t really work for you.

Whatever timeframe you choose, be clear about it. Write it in a journal or pin it on your noticeboard as the date you’re working towards. You’ll need it for your Planning.

Who is the Vision for?

• It’s for you, to keep you focused, motivated, and on track.
• It’s for your team, to inspire them with your clarity, and engage them in the journey.
• It’s for your ideal clients, because it makes clear who you want to serve, and how you plan to serve them.

Don’t keep your Vision to yourself. Once you’re happy with it, share it with the team, get their input, get them excited about it, and then get it out there on your website, your marketing materials, your training resources.

This is a big deal. Putting it out there is the first step towards achievement, so take it now.

Do one thing: Write down your vision and pin it up on the wall. Ask yourself, 'Does this give me goose-bumps'? and if it doesn't, take it back down, and work on it until it does.  This is your future we're talking about!
Taken from Marianne's new book: ‘Simple Logical Repeatable’, coming soon on Amazon!

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

I read an article the other day that got me a bit hot under the collar. In a nutshell it said that anyone following a process or a system was a ‘jobsworth’.

The article had different animals depicting the different types of people who followed a system and their reasons for doing so. What got my goat (not one of the animals depicted) was that they were all negative.

What the article didn’t say was that the real problem is not the following of a system - McDonald’s for one have built a global empire on the back of people following systems - the real problem is following the wrong system; a system that makes life more difficult.

The only reason systems exist is to make life easier - yours, your team’s, your customer’s. The wrong system  - the one that makes everyone’s life more difficult, that has either your team or your customer jumping through hoops - that’s the one the jobsworth loves.

I’ll give you an example…

A friend of mine was  shopping in her local Waitrose the other day, and had forgotten her Waitrose card. She’d never seen the person serving her before, but she explained that she was a regular, that she had forgotten her card (which entitles her to a free coffee) and wondered if she could still have her cup of coffee, as she could really do with it.

No, she couldn’t, was the answer.

So, was the person serving my friend a jobsworth, following a bad system? If Waitrose was  your business, what would you have wanted the till person to do in this situation? What would your system be?

Think about it…what was the worst that could have happened had the server given her the benefit of the doubt?

If my friend was pulling a fast one, Waitrose would be one cup of coffee down. If she was genuine, they’d have one hacked off Customer, as it proved.

The system in this instance needed to allow and encourage the server to use their discretion; it needed to ensure that they were not a jobsworth.

All good systems are simple, logical and repeatable; they make life easier…for you, your team and your customers.

Do one thing: Check the systems along your customer journey- are you creating jobsworths in your team?

For more information on how MPL can help you visit www.mariannepage.co.uk or contact me on hello@mariannepage.co.uk

It's very easy to get stuck in a rut. Sometimes we don't even recognise that we're in one.

A rut's boring, same old same old. Dull, right? And that's not your life!

Well what if it is?

Many successful small business owners get stuck in a rut. It's called The Struggle, and while it's anything but boring, it's definitely a rut. Some find that they can't get out of it. Many more don't want to. It's comfortable, they know where they're at with it, it's their norm.

They tell themselves that they've already stepped out of their comfort zone to create their business. They tell themselves that they are successful, and that running a successful business comes at a price – no time and no life beyond it.
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They tell themselves they're ok with that, and they're surrounded by other Strugglers who confirm that they're right. They revel in war stories of their eighty-hour weeks, and comfort themselves that they are still working to improve themselves by attending weekend seminars and late evening webinars, while other 'less successful' people are enjoying time with family and friends.

They've created a new comfort zone, and their rut's too deep to see beyond it. Your personal management system will get you out of your rut, but it needs three things to be be successful:

Discipline – in developing success habits and daily routines, in ditching the stuff that doesn’t serve you and delegating to your assistant and your team, in listening to your mentor.

Integrity – keeping your commitments to others, and to yourself, persevering with your habits and sticking to deadlines.

Celebration – celebrating all of your wins, no matter how small they are.

Learn to manage yourself, and the business will be a piece of cake!

Do one thing: Review your habits - are they success habits or are you stuck in a rut; in love with the struggle?

[Excerpt from Marianne's new book 'Simple, Logical, Repeatable' coming soon! Want to learn more about Marianne and The McFreedom System™ in the meantime? Then join her for the next McFreedom Secrets Workshop - click HERE to find out more]

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