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jan 17
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6 Tips on how to become successful while avoiding unnecessary stress

By | Geen categorie

Last week’s event was all about our fresh goals for 2018! Have you set them yet? Our speaker Rob Lacroix definitely talked us through how to be successful while avoiding unnecessary stress.

Now, success is a term which keeps coming back to us at Startup Boot and we have thrown its meaning at you more than ones. Rob has added a new aspect: when trying to become successful, one must acknowledge whether they thrive success because our parents, our schools, our friends or our social system experts us to, or because we feel a passionate drive ourselves. The last one is the valid drive to feel successful. And that is what success is all about right? A certain feeling. if you want to be successful, you stop trying to meet up to standards you’ve been put up with, instead you follow your passion and the sky is the limit. 

When starting a business or setting goals for the new year, rob figured a three- boxed check list to come in handy named RAC:

Recognize there is a challenge
Acknowledge you play a passionate Role in the change
Commit to the change

Make sure you are doing things for the right reasons and success will follow. When putting in the right amount of effort of course! The following 6 tips on a healthy mind-set towards success might help you achieve your success while avoiding stress:

  1. Make careful choices about whom you want to reach your success with. Whether you need a co-founder, employee, freelancer or investor, know what kind of person the company Needs and take the right pick. To find the right person, always keep your eyes open! He might just sit next to you while you’re reading these tips!
  2. Do not do everything yourself. A big percentage of entrepreneurs is suffering from a burn-out. Avoid this by delegating certain tasks. Know your strengths and Make sure people around can you fill in the gaps where you lack.
  3. Make sure your goals are realistic. Unrealistic goals Will only gain you stress. Not the output you had in mind. Plan realistic and smart
  4. Be an athlete!! Not by becoming a sportsman in the world cup nut by copying their habits to success. Eat healthy, exercise and take breaks! This Will bring you the energy you need
  5. Be flexible. Like Darwin said:” it is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent one. It’s the species that responses best to change”. So be open to change! Does your strategy not fit the present circumstances? No worries, adapt!
  6. Do not give up! Do things not work out? Do not blame factors as competition or the economy. Find the real problem and work on it. Check the RAC again and commit! YOU can Make it happen.

Interested in the subject or do you want to learn more on how to reduce stress? Check out Rob’s website!

Best of wishes to all of you for a successful 2018! 

 

feb 27
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The road to success.

By | News

If I could only.., I want to be better in.., we need more results.., I want to be more successful.. Everyone recognizes at least some of these ambitious thoughts. Failure seems to be our biggest enemy. We always strive to be more successful in our life or career and that’s a good quality when running a company. But what is success and what is failure?

Failure is part of the road to success.

Learning from mistakes is what makes you grow. You do not want to make the same mistake a second time so you make sure to handle the situation different next time. This is what makes a person or business grow and become more successful.

Maurice Hennequin taught us this same lesson over coffee. Friday morning he shared his story with us during a Startup Boot event. Maurice started his career with another definition of success than he has today. He started out as a man of traditional ambition of success through wealth. While traveling the world for his job, he created a check list of things he wanted to achieve. This resulted in a list of 20 boxes to check. And over the years, he found himself checking off all of these boxes;

– Become a million dollar man
– Buy fast cars
– Have several businesses
– Have a family
– And much more

Throughout the years this made Maurice successful and proud of himself. What happened? Following the financial crash in 2008 he faced a period where his business and life were becoming less successful (the failure), a situation he had climb out of (the road to success). This failure gave him insight and an opportunity to live a different life and redefine the meaning of success. He recognised that it wasn’t material success or social status but in developing meaning, purpose, generosity and humility. He realised that success was an inner journey and while this may sound cliché his personal rendition seem to give everyone in the room a little something more to think about.

Another lesson we have learned that was the lesson of Veronica Guguian, a marketing consultant for startups and SME’s. She said not only to have an end goal, know your audience, measure everything you do in order to improve, be present for your audience so you can build a community around your brand, but also to remember that not all companies in the market are your competitors. Some companies can make for great partnerships. One company, especially startups and SMEs, will not be specialized in all aspects which can make your company grow. Instead, different companies can work together to combine their knowledge and become successful together.

The road to success. A lesson well taught by Maurice Hennequin, founder of Keen Folk and businesss coach and Veronica Guguian, owner of SPIN Ideas.