Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Sir Donald Bradman all had one thing in common—they were relentless in pursuit of their goals. They were unstoppable!
A lot of businesses are good at what they do, some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable.
Think about Steve Jobs of Apple fame—he didn’t stop after he invented the iPod. If he had quit inventing, we wouldn’t have the iPhone and iPad we know and love today.
There are 8 steps to take to make your business unstoppable:
- Know where you want to be
Most businesses are willing to settle for being “good enough.” But in order to be unstoppable, you can never settle. You need to climb to the top, stay there and then climb higher.
Have a game plan, remain committed, and be relentless in pursuit of your goals!
- Understand talent doesn’t always equal success
Success is not the same as talent—the world is full of incredibly successful people who never succeed at anything.
All the legendary sports people have a team of coaches to help them become unstoppable. After you recognise your talent, you need to develop it and the skills required to go to the next level.
Create an advisory board—people who have already done what you want to do at an extremely high level. You can’t make it to the top of the mountain alone, so challenge yourself to be better and accept help from others who’ve been there.
- Surround yourself with people who remind you of the future, not the past.
When you surround yourself with people who remind you of your past, you’ll have a hard time breaking free of old habits or progressing in business—and you’ll find yourself flatlining.
Surrounding yourself with people who you want to be like gives you a fresh slate. You’re no longer defined by your past, only by the future you are creating. Your own advisory board is a great way to start!
- Don’t be afraid to fail
If you don’t learn how to push yourself through the bad days, you won’t attain a thriving business. Mitigate the risk of failure with an advisory board, which is made up of people who know what you’re experiencing and how to break through the barriers.
- Never stop learning
If you want to be unstoppable in business, you must stay curious and adopt a learning mentality.
Steve Jobs said, “Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
If you are always learning and innovating, you can accomplish more than people who already think they know it all. There’s no better way to challenge your assumptions than by working with a high-impact advisory board.
- Stay Focused
Complacency is the enemy of being unstoppable. To become unstoppable, you need to stay focused on getting to the top of the mountain and then reaching for the next mountain.
Intensity and passion are two hallmarks of maintaining momentum and, if you pursue your goals fuelled by them, you become unstoppable!
An advisory board builds discipline, strategy and capability and improves your decision-making by keeping you focused. It challenges you to fight any complacency that may try to creep into your business.
- Confidence is your greatest asset
You’ve heard it before. …Running a marathon is far more mental than physical.
A person’s ability to run a marathon—or do anything hard—is more a reflection of their level of confidence than their actual ability. Your confidence determines:
- The size of challenges/goals you undertake
- How likely you are to achieve those goals
- How well you will bounce back from failures
If you’re not confident, you will never put yourself out there in the first place. When you’re confident, you don’t care how many times you fail because you know you’re going to succeed. And it doesn’t matter how stacked the odds may seem against you.
An advisory board is a great asset that gives you the confidence to push through barriers and can show you the possibilities.
- Think and act 10X!
“When 5X or 10X is your measuring stick, you immediately see how you can surpass what everyone else is doing.”
Going 10X changes everything. 10X thinking automatically takes you “outside of the box” with your present obstacles and limitations. It pulls you out of the problems most people are dealing with and opens you to an entirely new field of possibilities.
The question is: Are you willing to go there? Not just entertain the thought for a second or two and then revert back to common thinking.
Are you willing to sit with 10X thinking? Are you willing to question your own thought processes and open yourself to believing an entirely different set of possibilities?
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You need to develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end.
If you think you’re unable to work for the best company in its sphere, make that your aim. If you think you’re unable to be on the cover of TIME magazine, make it your business to be there.
Make your vision of where you want to be a reality because is nothing is impossible. As the popular book by advertising guru Paul says, “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be.” 1
If your goals are logical, they won’t force you to create luck. Being unstoppable means your goals challenge you to be someone more than you currently are. Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Summary
People who are unstoppable are in their own world. They don’t compete with anyone but themselves. They make the competition irrelevant.
From this point forward, your strategy needs to be making everyone else get to your level. You are not competing with anyone else again, they are going to have to compete with you
When you’re unstoppable, you will make sure to get what you want. Everything you need to know is already within you. All you need to do is trust yourself and act.
Unstoppable people leverage the power of an advisory board to their advantage. What are you waiting for?
1 Arden, Paul. It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be. London: Phaidon Books, 2003. Print.
