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When all is said and done, execution of business ties down to the person leading decision making. It becomes relationship of two individuals – the business and the leader/founder.

Business requiring input of quality decisions from the founder while founder requiring optimal performance from the business.

Who kicks off the relationship.

In this letter, we delve in pillars of excellence to ensure the business founder is able to master and overcome obstacles for business growth.

During our micro business growth program in April, I met a lady called Lilian who is looking at creating business presence. Currently engaged in over three businesses and wanted to know how to entangle and own a predictable path. The starting point we agreed is to first work on identifying decision making frame to enable create a pattern. From there she will be able to predict her thinking more clearly.

Key takeaways

· Ability to recognize key control points for physical and mental energy of the founder is key success factor

· Intentional allocation of time and business money is a rule for success

· Ability to create and manage activities that build up to routines create clarity of direction you are heading. 

The 5 pillars for the person that drives micro business decisions setting them for success.

· Physical and mental energy

· Getting clarity through time and money planning

· Routines for structured and speedy decisions

· Mindset for resilience and reflection

· Setting accountability system

Physical and Mental Energy

Ability to sustain motion is very key in growing your micro business. Consistent steps everyday.

Micro business makers are known to be best in multi tasking -full of activities.

However, as much as this can flow for a while, your biological nature will win ultimately. Win by not providing any more energy to sustain what you wish.

Ability to keep very simple displine in your sleep, nutrition and emotional connectivity will help you win.

You can never win over a depleted body. It will give you a finger regardless.

Your pride in working from 5am to midnight will not last long.

Your pride in your body accommodating anything you find on the road in form of food will not last you long.

Your pride in allowing any form of people to disrupt your mind with any sort of information will not sustain you. Being alone may serve you better than being in crowd every time.

These are key elements that was extended to you naturally and given power to control.

Getting clarity through time and money planning

Clarity is like a growing tree.

The more it is nurtured the more it becomes strong every day.

When you want to meet successful business person, first thing to understand is how they are able to manage their time and money.

Clarity becomes clearer and clearer through creating simple system governing priorities in your time and business money.

When minimum level of clarity is achieved the next level is nurturing it to produce more refined results.

Less money produce huge results

Less time yield great results

This is because every decision is designated on clearer goal. 

Routines for structured and speedy decisions

The world of business is in midst of speedy change on daily basis. Decisions required to be more faster before being overtaken by others.

As business makers it is not a wonder to find lost in those fast paced activities and end up achieving less and less.

If you don’t have system that is governed by pre planned routine, you are just busy with activities

You make decisions that will keep bouncing thereby requiring repeat of same things.

Success will only be guaranteed if you have ability to design and control daily activities.

When designing these daily activities always give priority to your foundations. Your day start with your sleep.

Foundations are sleep, good eating, physical fitness. Then evolve from there.

When I met Mr. James, a 70 years old successful man, I couldn’t be able to explain why he continued to be very productive at that age.

After close monitoring I realized that 60% of his weekly routine is spending on physical exercise in a golf course.

He remains my competitor in energy at my age 40. 

Mindset for resilience and reflection

Success in business is mainly driven by ability to keep learning

Ability to remain positive in the midst of calamities very key to creating opportunities of learning.

Business brings you in the front of varied issues to be solved.

It is not possible to sustain sanity if your system is not supported by right reflections and mindfulness.

Developing the habit of reflecting, learn from issues that befell you, remain resilient and practice gratitude.

Reflection helps successful business people enjoy a lot time of being alone. Shining deep until they develop winning perspectives on different issues.

Practicing is the start point. Can you spend 10 minutes daily reflecting about issues without distractions. 

 Setting accountability system

You can only grow from your last point

Unless you identify that last point, you can never tell if you are growing.

Identifying the point you need to improve depends on whether you are a person who sets personal targets and keep monitoring them.

That is what we call accountability.

Any gaps identified, is pushed for more improvement.

Accountability practice is a personal gift to yourself. You start journey of reaching the potential you never thought you had.

Finally, puff, you are on the go achieving more.

Every business is scalable.

Success for a micro entrepreneur is achievable through design. It’s a displined practice of nurturing your energy, mindfulness, resilience, accountability through building robust system that helps you.

This is not set to be an overnight. However, someone on a designed journey, you can only surprise yourself how on much you can become.

Thank you for your time

 Gachoka

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I am Charles Gachoka - CPA-K , MBA- C.O.O & Business Development at Cygnus.co.ke. I am also the lead in Business Finance Operations consultancy portfolio. Cygnus prides working with over 50 owners and decision makers of mid-level businesses, helping bring out huge growth through Kaizen in Operation Excellence, Business Finance Operations, ESG & Strategy Deployment model (Hoshin Kanri).

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