Coach Nathan Thibodeau asks past clients to check in: Are you still chasing the vision you set? He walks through questions about whether growth brought distractions or stagnation, and invites you back to the Contractor Strategy Conference 2022 to reset and reconnect.
Coach Nathan Thibodeau.
Contractor Strategy Conference 2022.
Hey everybody, Coach Nathan Thibodeau here and I have a specific message for those of you that have coached with us in the past, whether it was last year, three years ago, or even five years ago, I want to take a little bit of your time to put some stuff on your mind. And the place that this is coming from is, first of all, we want to love, serve and care for you guys, number one. And number two, we have experienced some of these things I'm going to address with some of our clients in the past. And I have a solution for you. First question I have for you is, are you still on track? Are you still on track? If you worked with us, we worked on building out your dream for your company. We probably worked on your vision, your bhag, your big hairy, audacious goal, the strategic intent for your business. And I have a question, are you getting there? Especially if you worked with us years ago, we have new people that come into our business. These new people might not have any idea or they didn't help us with some of these original foundational things that we built. Some of the people that did help us with those things may have moved on to other places. Do the new people have an understanding of what we built back then and are they on board and are they inspired by it? Opportunities? As our companies grow, we have all these other opportunities and these different factors that cause us to seek after additional opportunities. Are these opportunities helping? Are they hindering? Are we utilizing them correctly? And lastly, and somewhat more dangerously, are we experiencing some stagnation? Right? Or has our company plateaued? We've seen this. We work with a client and over time they see some feedback, phenomenal growth and acceleration in trajectory. And then after a little while it starts to plateau or even stagnate because of distractions, because of just life in general, maybe even a pandemic. And sometimes that can lead to a decrease. When was the last time we looked at these things? Are we still on track? Next question I have for you is, was that a one time thing, our dream, our bhag, our vision? These are things that we should be engaging with on a regular basis inside of our company to try and keep our North Star, know where our North Star is and keep our company pointed that way. And then once a year we should be diving deep into those things and analyzing whether that is still what we want. Do we still want to continue to grow or do we want to create more efficiencies? Has it been a one time thing for you? And when was the last time we took some effort and analyzed and dug into that thing. There is a risk that comes with success. Once again, speaking from experience with some of our clients that have come back to us, there's a risk that comes with that success. Sometimes we gain some success and it tends to impact our drive and our motivation. Have we lost some of that initial fire that we had when we first opened our business or when we decided to take our business in a new direction? Distractions. Opportunities can create distractions. Sometimes external things, family problems, internal struggles, pandemics, all kinds of things can become a distraction or can allow us to detach a little bit. Success can also breed a false sense of security. If we started to make some more money or our team has started to grow and maybe we don't have to work as much on the day to day, we can start to disconnect because we feel secure in where our business is at. Should we feel secure. So many of you came to us using words like a well oiled machine. Freedom, capacity. We want to be able to work on our business, not in it. And we want to have time to do other things. Have you accomplished that freedom that you were after? These are some questions that I had for you and I want to encourage you guys to come back to to Contractor Strategy Conference. You trusted us once before. Trust us again. We would love to work with you on the next phase. What is that next phase? Did we accomplish our dream? Did we accomplish our vision? Did we accomplish our bhag? Did we hit all the things that we were set out to do? If we did amazing, what is the next level? What is our next vision? What is our next mountain that we want to climb? And if we didn't accomplish those things, how can we get back on track to doing that? Did we lose our way somewhere? Come to Contractor Strategy Conference, spend some time with some of our other clients and other companies that are seeking to do the same thing. Odds are they've got some stuff that they can help you with in your business in a networking environment and I guarantee you guys have some value you can bring to some of these folks as well. We would really love to see you again, spend some time with you re engage with you and your business and set our intention and our goal for 2022. Whether it's finding that new mountain or getting back on track and getting back to the trail and following the North Star that we set so long ago. We really look forward to seeing you guys. Please contractor strategy conference 2022 look forward to seeing you there.
