Why Personal Foundations Will Help You Deliver Results

So in my workshops that I run and the coaching I do, I always talk to people about the fact that their personal goals are as important as their professional goals. Most of the time, people say to me, what? You’re nuts. And people say, why is that stuff important? I think we all intrinsically know it is, right? Do you?

Your personal habits are foundations for your business success

Any of you who have had kids or been around kids, know when they get to a certain age that they love playing with building blocks, the trickiest thing about building something that’s going to last and making sure it stay’s up, is the bottom part, right? Where you build the foundations, because if you get the foundations right and you get the foundations in place, usually the top of the tower will stay.

It’s a bit like this with your personal stuff and your professional stuff.

This is how I explain it to people, which is that your personal foundations are down at the base, if you think about the things that you need to have in place to feel really sort of energised, and motivated, and have a sense of yourself, all of those things.

For you, they could be something like:

1. Something of health, so you might want to exercise every day.
2. Could be a social component. Every week you might want to catch up with a friend, have lunch with a friend.
3. Or a spiritual component. That could be literally church or it could be something like just hanging out by yourself, thinking about the world.

That will be different for every one of you, and I don’t want to assume they’re the same.

For every one of the clients I talk to, I recommend that, that personal rhythm is as important as the professional rhythm because just like building a tower that’s going to last when you’re a kid, if you want to build results, or create results, and achieve goals that are going to last, you can’t do it without those foundations in place.

I believe that the professional results sit on top of the personal rhythm. If we get this stuff right, it’s like an amplifier or it’s a foundation for you to do your best work.

So often when we’re thinking about being better here, we miss the fact that we may not have put the foundations in place underneath.

What I want you to think about is that, for you, what personal foundation have you maybe either forgotten about or got out of the habit of doing that you could bring back that might help you do your best work.

Talk to you soon on The Reason & The Road.