Change is scary. It’s uncomfortable. Why change if everything is fine and going okay?
Do you really want to be fine and okay in life?
So what is the next level?
You often can’t see it for yourself. But with a few small tweaks, you can turn fine and okay into amazing and wonderful in your business!
One of my clients, Joyce decided she wanted to find that next level and ended up adding 162 NEW students in her program in a few short months. I’m going to tell you what shifted to make this happen.
Joyce runs a mobile program. She’s been doing this since 2007 and got to where it was fine and okay. After the pandemic, she decided it was time to ramp this thing up. But she didn’t know how. We met on social media and she started watching my trainings and decided to join the $100K Mobile Blueprint. I learned the system for growth.
STEP 1: Take the time to get clear on your goals and develop a plan of action around those goals.
Sometimes you get caught up in the day-to-day of just doing the work over and over. It’s time to take a step back and choose how you want your day-to-day to look. By creating those goals, the actions fill themselves. Joyce discovered that she wasn’t taking the time to do her reach-outs to new schools. This also led to her revamping her pricing structure that was still stuck in 2007. With new goals and plans, she became clear on what needed to be done. And clarity matters! Revisit these goals often, because they do change over time as “life” happens!
STEP 2: Get into action.
Think outside of the box and see what works. Often studio owners can’t think outside of the box and want to do what they’ve always done because that’s the way we do it. That got you to fine and okay, but now you want to move to the next level. It’s time to try something new or something different.
For some studio owners, this means hiring a coach to bring in ideas from outside of the box you are living in the day-to-day of your studio. Other studio owners have great ideas and they just don’t want to implement them and see if that is the thing that will move the needle. It’s time to move out of your comfort zone and into the unknown. In order to get different results, you have to do different things.
Joyce had a goal to add 100 new students but had no idea how to make this happen. She was stuck in the day-to-day and couldn’t see what the coach she hired (Erin) could see from the outside: she was spinning wheels and not working on her goals! Joyce actually added 162 new students in three months! And it wasn’t hard. She stuck to her goals and got into action. Let me say, Joyce was a skeptic at first - this couldn’t happen for me, I won’t get the results. Well, Joyce became a believer when the students started enrolling into her classes - and her bank account rejoiced, too.
STEP 3: Measure the results.
One thing that studio owners get into is the negative talk of I’ve tried other things and they didn’t work. It’s okay to fail or for them not to work. The objective is to get data to drive our decisions. Maybe it didn’t work because of the time of year you tried it. Is that a guess? Is that a story you’re telling yourself? Or is it real live data and stats? Well, if it’s true based on data and stats, it will drive you to do it again at a different time of the year and see what happens, right?
After getting great results, studio owners might also kick themselves for not starting sooner. Magic happens when you’re ready for that kind of magic. You were ready for it when it appeared.
Step #1 allows you to be clear and open your mind to be ready. Step #2 lets you try something different this time around. And Step #3 measures the results and moves you to your next big step and back to getting into action on the next thing. You’ll realize your goals sooner than you can imagine if you are open to the possibilities.