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Aligning yourself with your business

Align: to be in line with or in correct position.

The key benefit of aligning yourself to your business is that your life will be easier and simpler.  So you may ask are all business owners not aligned to their businesses when they themselves set the businesses up?  The short answer is “no”.

To ‘be in line with’ does not mean rigidity but is to be where you want to be, in a cooking pot with all the things that are important to you, your personal reality and your future focus.  It does not mean you live your business, but that you take all these matters, relationships, issues into consideration, naturally in making decisions and taking actions.  It is going for the long view and not the short term ‘grab of takings’.Continue reading