Posts Tagged ‘change’

A couple of weeks ago, I was driving to Berny Martin’s house, and I had a catastrophic imagination.  My brain thought, what if my tire blew out, and my convertible rolled into the cement median, crushing my skull.  The imagination continued with me months in a coma, and waking up with severe brain damage.  After recovering, I was still able to function in life and go back to work.

As a result of the brain damage, my brain now had to function in a different way.  I could still think and get things done, but I couldn’t do it the same way I did before the accident.

After the accident, I could also clearly remember how my brain used to function, and that memory paralyzed my ability to create a new way of thinking with my reconfigured brain.  I couldn’t move forward with rehabilitation and new success because I was so stuck on how I used to create results.

What if my re-configured post-accident coma brain actually functioned in a way that would bring me bigger breakthroughs in life than my old brain could?

Here’s the point.  To achieve breakthroughs in our business, we have to do something different than what got us to where we are.  Reproducing activities and thoughts from the past will only produce the results that we got before.  You may not have brain damage, and may not be in the process of to re-learning how to function, but if you survived the recession – you have to re-learn how to function.

Do you want 2010 to be a breakthrough year?  Analyze what thoughts and activities that may limit your ability to get to the next level, and eliminate them.  Be confident in taking risks to run your business in a new and more effective way than ever before.

Jamar Cobb-Dennard is the Vice-President of Business Development for reachmore, which provides leadership coaching for small business and executives.  For more resources on business leadership, please visit http://blog.goreachmore.com.