Episode 24
The Success Mindset: 6 Principles That Will Change Your Business | 024
What does success actually mean for you? Is it about revenue? Recognition? Freedom? Fulfillment? Impact?
The truth is, success is deeply personal. And the moment you stop measuring it against someone else’s yardstick is the moment you start truly growing your business and living a life that feels aligned to you and your values.
In this episode, I share the 6 core rules of success we live by in our community. These aren't just feel-good phrases, they’re powerful mindset shifts and actions that can reshape how you show up in both your business and your life.
You'll walk away with permission (and encouragement) to lead boldly, build intentionally, and define success on your own terms.
Key Takeaways:
- Success is personal: There’s no one-size-fits-all version. Define what success means to YOU.
- See adventure: Reframe challenges as adventures and choose your perspective intentionally.
- Take up space: Visibility is non-negotiable for growth.
- Choose joy: Even in tough moments, how you feel is a choice.
- Invest in yourself: Time, money, and energy spent on learning or support will pay you back in dividends.
- Keep the next level in mind: Set realistic, stretch, and “next-level” goals to drive momentum.
- Decide: Indecision drains energy whereas making a decision moves you forward.
- There are no wrong turns: Every step brings clarity, even if the direction pivots.
- Let go of comparison: You are not behind. You’re building yourself and your business.
- You don’t need permission: But if you’ve been waiting for it, this is it. Take up space and lead.
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About Sharon:
Sharon Galluzzo, Profit Growth Strategist at Profit Connections, is the author of several Amazon Best Selling books including “Legendary Business: From Rats to Riche$.” She ran a successful multi-six figure, award winning business for more than a decade before selling it for a profit. In her more than 19 years as an entrepreneur, Sharon has coached professionals across the country from franchisors and solopreneurs to businesses on the verge expansion.
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Transcript
So welcome back profit connectors. I am so
Sharon Galluzzo:excited to join you today. I have a conversation that I
Sharon Galluzzo:wanted to have that is very specifically about success. We
Sharon Galluzzo:talk a lot about being successful in our businesses.
Sharon Galluzzo:How do you be successful? How do you be profitable? What can you
Sharon Galluzzo:do to build your business? And I wanted to talk a little bit
Sharon Galluzzo:about success, and how I define success, and what the rules are
Sharon Galluzzo:to get to be successful. And I think that this is a very
Sharon Galluzzo:important topic to talk about, because sometimes we say things
Sharon Galluzzo:and we don't necessarily define what that means. Now my personal
Sharon Galluzzo:opinion is that your success, what you define as success, is
Sharon Galluzzo:your definition of success. Sometimes business owners want
Sharon Galluzzo:to be very, very profitable. It's about the numbers. It's
Sharon Galluzzo:about six figures, seven figures, eight figures. It's
Sharon Galluzzo:about that side is what they consider successful. Some
Sharon Galluzzo:business owners consider success in measured in awards and
Sharon Galluzzo:accolades and third party assessments of your success.
Sharon Galluzzo:Some people are about people and how the customers are treated
Sharon Galluzzo:and the customer experience. And some people measure success by
Sharon Galluzzo:how big a difference they're making in the world, and many,
Sharon Galluzzo:many other ways to measure success. So I want you to be
Sharon Galluzzo:open to what does success mean for you. I think that's the core
Sharon Galluzzo:part of being having the business that you love, reaching
Sharon Galluzzo:the level of success that you want is being able to to define
Sharon Galluzzo:what does success mean to me, whenever I talk about success, I
Sharon Galluzzo:will talk about it in many different forms and fashions,
Sharon Galluzzo:because I don't actually know how you personally define
Sharon Galluzzo:success. So I'm going to talk today about the rules for
Sharon Galluzzo:success. The rules of success. How do you get there and how do
Sharon Galluzzo:you how do you be successful? What is the What is that look
Sharon Galluzzo:like? However, the way that you look at it, for your personal
Sharon Galluzzo:business, for your personal life, for your goals, in
Sharon Galluzzo:everything that you do that can be different from person to
Sharon Galluzzo:person. So just to start things off, I want to acknowledge and
Sharon Galluzzo:affirm that your success is defined by you. Now that doesn't
Sharon Galluzzo:mean that you don't measure it off of someone else's measuring
Sharon Galluzzo:stick. That's perfectly fine if you want to measure your success
Sharon Galluzzo:that way. That's the way you measure it. However, whenever
Sharon Galluzzo:someone uses a term like success, that creates a picture
Sharon Galluzzo:in everyone's mind that's a little bit different. I tell a
Sharon Galluzzo:story when I'm illustrating what I do about being lost in a maze
Sharon Galluzzo:and making wrong turns and running into walls and going in
Sharon Galluzzo:circles. And I talk about the maze as an allegory for how we
Sharon Galluzzo:feel about running our businesses. However, what I've
Sharon Galluzzo:found is, every time I tell the story about the maze, every
Sharon Galluzzo:person in that room visualizes the maze in a different way.
Sharon Galluzzo:It's different for everyone. Some people see a cartoon maze.
Sharon Galluzzo:Some people think back to the, you know, the ancients and the
Sharon Galluzzo:the the maze that you know, the the giant, the giant maze there,
Sharon Galluzzo:some people think about a video game, and so it's different for
Sharon Galluzzo:every person. So I think that success is also something that
Sharon Galluzzo:is individual. And when you get really clear on what success
Sharon Galluzzo:means to you, then you can actually make so many strides
Sharon Galluzzo:forward, because you know what it looks like. You know what it
Sharon Galluzzo:feels like inside. You can almost taste it, you see it. You
Sharon Galluzzo:have a vision for what is that thing that I call success, and
Sharon Galluzzo:sometimes, unfortunately, people don't have a clear picture of
Sharon Galluzzo:what that success looks like, and so they deem themselves
Sharon Galluzzo:unsuccessful because they don't know what it should be, and
Sharon Galluzzo:they're just looking at someone else's homework, going, mine
Sharon Galluzzo:doesn't look like that, therefore I'm not successful. So
Sharon Galluzzo:if you don't already have a vision of what success looks
Sharon Galluzzo:like, what it feels like, what it tastes like, what it's like
Sharon Galluzzo:to have, what you want in your hands, I encourage you to
Sharon Galluzzo:ruminate on that and really get clear, clear, clear on what
Sharon Galluzzo:success. Means to you. Now, my conversation today is going to
Sharon Galluzzo:be the rules of success that we use in our community here. So
Sharon Galluzzo:I'm going to there also rules of success that will be applicable,
Sharon Galluzzo:applicable across many genres. So anywhere that you go, these
Sharon Galluzzo:success principles will apply. However, I'm specifically
Sharon Galluzzo:talking about rules of success that we use in our community to
Sharon Galluzzo:talk about business and how we can be successful in business
Sharon Galluzzo:and in life. So the first rule of success that we have here is
Sharon Galluzzo:called Sea adventure, meaning visualize adventure. And the way
Sharon Galluzzo:I define adventure is that life and everything that happens to
Sharon Galluzzo:us is an adventure. The boring stuff can be an adventure. The
Sharon Galluzzo:exciting stuff, of course, is an adventure. And then there's the
Sharon Galluzzo:crazy sideways. I didn't expect that things, and that's where I
Sharon Galluzzo:actually love the word adventure. So I'm going to tell
Sharon Galluzzo:you a story about my dad, whenever I was little, probably
Sharon Galluzzo:I would say late middle school, late elementary school, early
Sharon Galluzzo:middle school, we went on a family vacation, my dad and my
Sharon Galluzzo:mom and me, and we went to the woodcutters festival. Now, this
Sharon Galluzzo:was an amazing, cool thing. People were out there with
Sharon Galluzzo:chainsaws, making sculptures, cutting things, walking on logs.
Sharon Galluzzo:It was a crazy, crazy thing. It was a multi day event, and we
Sharon Galluzzo:had taken a RV, or my grandparents RV, to go to this
Sharon Galluzzo:festival, and so therefore we did not have a car to drive back
Sharon Galluzzo:and forth. However, the day we arrived, my dad drove the RV all
Sharon Galluzzo:around to see what was around in the area, and we found this
Sharon Galluzzo:beautiful little lake. So one day it was absolutely
Sharon Galluzzo:sweltering, and I was like, Daddy, please, please. Can we go
Sharon Galluzzo:swimming? My mom was taking a nap, and he's like, Fine, we'll
Sharon Galluzzo:go. We'll walk. It's not far. So we got out on the main road, and
Sharon Galluzzo:we actually hitched a ride with some crazy kids in a jeep. There
Sharon Galluzzo:was probably like eight boys and girls, and they're getting ready
Sharon Galluzzo:to go swimming somewhere, and they were all in their summer
Sharon Galluzzo:gear, and we jumped on the back of the Jeep and rode down the
Sharon Galluzzo:road, and they dropped us off on the road that went back to the
Sharon Galluzzo:lake. And so we began walking, and it was fun. I was so
Sharon Galluzzo:excited. And we were walking and walking and walking. And
Sharon Galluzzo:eventually I was like, Daddy, how much further is it? He's
Sharon Galluzzo:like, oh, oh, it's just around the next bend. And so we get to
Sharon Galluzzo:the next bend and it wasn't there. There was just more road.
Sharon Galluzzo:And so I said, Well, I thought you said it was just around the
Sharon Galluzzo:next bend. He goes, Oh, no, no, no. I know where we are now I
Sharon Galluzzo:remember it's just around the next bend. Well, let me tell you
Sharon Galluzzo:that it was a couple miles down the road before we got to the
Sharon Galluzzo:lake, and my dad just around the next bended me all the way to
Sharon Galluzzo:the lake, to the point where it became hysterical. And I was
Sharon Galluzzo:like, around the next bend, right? Dad? And he's like, yes,
Sharon Galluzzo:and we'd get around and there was still more road. So that
Sharon Galluzzo:became our just around the next bend story and joke within my
Sharon Galluzzo:family. And so whenever my kids were little, we went on a
Sharon Galluzzo:similar adventure. We were in a car, however, and we were
Sharon Galluzzo:driving in the mountains, and this was before GPS. This week.
Sharon Galluzzo:It just had a paper map, and we were driving, and it was a very
Sharon Galluzzo:crazy mountain road. And after a while, the kids were like, Mom,
Sharon Galluzzo:when are we going to get there? When are we going to get there?
Sharon Galluzzo:So I was like, Oh, it's just around the next bend for maybe
Sharon Galluzzo:about 10 more miles until we arrived at our destination. And
Sharon Galluzzo:so I had my own just around the next Ben story with my kids, and
Sharon Galluzzo:that actually triggered something in me to begin to
Sharon Galluzzo:express our our hardships and things that didn't go the way we
Sharon Galluzzo:wanted to as well. It's an adventure. And so my kids
Sharon Galluzzo:actually make fun of me. Oh, Mom's gonna say this is an
Sharon Galluzzo:adventure. Everything in life that we experience can be viewed
Sharon Galluzzo:from any lens that we choose to use. It's our choice. We get to
Sharon Galluzzo:choose what we see. We get to choose how we feel. That doesn't
Sharon Galluzzo:mean that we should be
Sharon Galluzzo:that we should deny everything's existence. It's like this thing
Sharon Galluzzo:in in front of me exists. This is not where I thought I was
Sharon Galluzzo:going to be. This is not how I thought this thing was going to
Sharon Galluzzo:go. However, I can choose to look at it as a problem. I can
Sharon Galluzzo:choose to look at it as a challenge. I can choose to look
Sharon Galluzzo:at it. As an adventure. So that is what I mean by sea adventure,
Sharon Galluzzo:when things don't go quite the way that you were expecting them
Sharon Galluzzo:to go. If you change your perspective and go, Oh, this is
Sharon Galluzzo:an adventure, then that means you can laugh about it. That
Sharon Galluzzo:means you can tolerate the hard parts. You can cry through the
Sharon Galluzzo:things that are struck you know that cause you emotion. You can
Sharon Galluzzo:laugh about things that cause you joy, and you can actually
Sharon Galluzzo:change the the way that you experience that thing that's in
Sharon Galluzzo:front of you, if you choose to see it as an adventure. Now the
Sharon Galluzzo:second rule of success is important, and I think this is
Sharon Galluzzo:true for every space that you go into, everywhere you are as a
Sharon Galluzzo:human being, that this is a rule that you should follow. And I am
Sharon Galluzzo:specifically talking for two people for whom this is not a
Sharon Galluzzo:natural choice. This is something that is hard or not
Sharon Galluzzo:even something that you ever think about doing, and that is
Sharon Galluzzo:to take up space. Every place that you go, you can belong.
Sharon Galluzzo:Everything that you do is important when you are in a
Sharon Galluzzo:space, when you are running a business, when you are anywhere,
Sharon Galluzzo:you need to take up space, and I say need very specifically,
Sharon Galluzzo:because if you want your business to be noticed, if you
Sharon Galluzzo:want your business to be successful, if you want to move
Sharon Galluzzo:your business to the level that you want to move it, if you want
Sharon Galluzzo:to make The change in the world that you want to change to that
Sharon Galluzzo:you want to make, you have to take up space. People have to be
Sharon Galluzzo:able to see you. You must be visible. In order to be visible,
Sharon Galluzzo:you have to take up space. It is okay for you to be there. You
Sharon Galluzzo:have a right and you have an obligation, because the goal of
Sharon Galluzzo:your business is to make money or make a difference, or
Sharon Galluzzo:whatever the goal of your business is, however, the
Sharon Galluzzo:vehicle that you use to get there is to solve your
Sharon Galluzzo:customer's problem. That's 100% of what you do as a business.
Sharon Galluzzo:You are a problem solver. You're solving the problem your
Sharon Galluzzo:customer has. And in order to do that, they have to be able to
Sharon Galluzzo:see you and to connect with you. And the only way to do that is
Sharon Galluzzo:to take up space. So go ahead, be visible. Say the weird thing,
Sharon Galluzzo:get out there. Let people know what you do, how you do it, how
Sharon Galluzzo:you can change their lives, how you can make a difference in
Sharon Galluzzo:this world. And take up space unapologetically. Don't take up
Sharon Galluzzo:space and say, I'm sorry. Don't take up space and say, Oh, if I
Sharon Galluzzo:could just sort of scooch in here, take up space confidently.
Sharon Galluzzo:You are allowed to be there. You are permitted to be there, and
Sharon Galluzzo:you don't actually need the permission. However, for those
Sharon Galluzzo:of you who think you do, I am giving you permission right now.
Sharon Galluzzo:You have permission to take up space. You are encouraged to
Sharon Galluzzo:take up space be what you need to be, so that you can do the
Sharon Galluzzo:things that you want to do in your business. The third rule of
Sharon Galluzzo:success in our community, and I think for your business, is
Sharon Galluzzo:choose joy. Now, some people are like, Oh, these, these negative.
Sharon Galluzzo:What do they call it? When people are very, very positive,
Sharon Galluzzo:they actually can be kind of negative. I'm not saying just be
Sharon Galluzzo:happy, to be happy. In fact, I'm not even saying Be happy. What
Sharon Galluzzo:I'm saying is that anything that goes on in your business can be
Sharon Galluzzo:reacted to by your choice. You get to choose if you're going to
Sharon Galluzzo:be angry, you get to choose if you're frustrated. You get to
Sharon Galluzzo:choose if you are irritated. You get to choose if you're annoyed.
Sharon Galluzzo:You get to choose if you are overwhelmed. You actually get to
Sharon Galluzzo:choose everything that you feel in your business and in your
Sharon Galluzzo:life as well. However, in your business, you can choose joy.
Sharon Galluzzo:And the reason I use the word joy, as opposed to happiness, is
Sharon Galluzzo:happiness is, to my definition, more of a of a feeling. It's a
Sharon Galluzzo:state of mind. It's it's I'm happy, and it's very you know,
Sharon Galluzzo:everything is good, however, joy can be experienced in my
Sharon Galluzzo:definition, in every moment of life, even when something is
Sharon Galluzzo:hard, even when something is disappointing, even when you
Sharon Galluzzo:just don't feel like it does. It look like it could possibly have
Sharon Galluzzo:any joy in it. That's why people call you know, every cloud has a
Sharon Galluzzo:silver lining. The silver lining is that little piece of joy that
Sharon Galluzzo:you that you can get if you know, you lost a big job, maybe
Sharon Galluzzo:you worked for months and it didn't come through, and you
Sharon Galluzzo:lost that big opportunity. Well, where's the joy in that? Well,
Sharon Galluzzo:let's think about that. The joy in that could be a that you had
Sharon Galluzzo:the opportunity, that you did all of the things that you could
Sharon Galluzzo:do to get the opportunity to come to you that if you were
Sharon Galluzzo:putting together a proposal, let's say you did all the work
Sharon Galluzzo:to put the proposal together. That means you pulled
Sharon Galluzzo:information, you collected something, you presented it, and
Sharon Galluzzo:you actually created that presentation. It didn't exist
Sharon Galluzzo:before you created it. You created something. There can be
Sharon Galluzzo:joy in the creation. In addition, you learned something
Sharon Galluzzo:by creating it, and even by getting rejected from that
Sharon Galluzzo:thing, you also can learn from the rejection. So all of these
Sharon Galluzzo:things can be ways to find joy in anything that goes on in your
Sharon Galluzzo:life. And joy is, is a is a state of being, as opposed to an
Sharon Galluzzo:emotion. Whenever I'm talking about choose joy, it's I am in
Sharon Galluzzo:this thing, and it is my choice if I'm how I'm going to react,
Sharon Galluzzo:what I'm going to feel. And a lot of times, we don't
Sharon Galluzzo:understand that all of our emotions are our choice, because
Sharon Galluzzo:some of our emotions, they come right from inside of us right at
Sharon Galluzzo:that anger, that frustration, that overwhelm, that comes from
Sharon Galluzzo:inside of us, and it can feel like it belongs to us so
Sharon Galluzzo:authentically. And the reality is that is a choice I know,
Sharon Galluzzo:honestly, I have been in situations where I have been
Sharon Galluzzo:frustrated and angry and upset, and I literally had the thought,
Sharon Galluzzo:the conscious thought, you are choosing to have this emotion
Sharon Galluzzo:right now. And said, Yes, I know, and I'm still going to
Sharon Galluzzo:have the negative emotion. I'm still going to cry. I need to
Sharon Galluzzo:get this. I'm choosing this for this moment, and then in the
Sharon Galluzzo:next moment I could move to something else. So it's okay to
Sharon Galluzzo:choose, to process those emotions as they come up, and
Sharon Galluzzo:know that they are a choice. It's not out of your control. So
Sharon Galluzzo:the fourth rule of success here in our community and in your
Sharon Galluzzo:business is invest in yourself and invest in your business. And
Sharon Galluzzo:what I mean by invest? I mean invest time to learn things. I
Sharon Galluzzo:mean invest money to get help from professionals who can help
Sharon Galluzzo:you. I mean, invest in anything that you you know, reading a
Sharon Galluzzo:book, listening to someone who has done what you want to do.
Sharon Galluzzo:What did they do? Invest in, in getting the information from
Sharon Galluzzo:them. Invest in conversations with other people who own
Sharon Galluzzo:businesses. What are they doing? What's working for them? You
Sharon Galluzzo:know people that do the same thing as you do, what are they
Sharon Galluzzo:doing that's making them successful? What are they doing
Sharon Galluzzo:that is causing challenges? And how can you learn from that?
Sharon Galluzzo:Investing in your self and in your business is both
Sharon Galluzzo:educational, informational technology, resources,
Sharon Galluzzo:professional help, all of those things all combine to help you
Sharon Galluzzo:be better at what you do in running your business, because I
Sharon Galluzzo:believe that you need people when you're running a business,
Sharon Galluzzo:if it takes a village to raise a child, it certainly takes a
Sharon Galluzzo:village to build a business. It's not something that you need
Sharon Galluzzo:to do all alone. You have the ability to get resources and
Sharon Galluzzo:help from everywhere. So invest in yourself. Use, use the
Sharon Galluzzo:opportunities that are presented to you to build on what you
Sharon Galluzzo:already have so that you can move your business forward. The
Sharon Galluzzo:fifth principle, the fifth rule of success, is one of my
Sharon Galluzzo:favorites,
Sharon Galluzzo:and that is, keep the next level in mind. Whenever I work with my
Sharon Galluzzo:clients, we talk about a lot about goal setting, where are
Sharon Galluzzo:you going, you know, what's the vision? What's that? You know,
Sharon Galluzzo:what are you doing? What's and it's beyond the you know, I need
Sharon Galluzzo:a five year plan. I need a two year plan. I need a one year but
Sharon Galluzzo:yes, you absolutely need those. And you need the vision of where
Sharon Galluzzo:you're going to go, and what are you going to do in your
Sharon Galluzzo:business, with your business, for your customers, and the
Sharon Galluzzo:difference that you want to make in the world. So that is level
Sharon Galluzzo:one, having those goals, having that clearly deline. It out
Sharon Galluzzo:information that you can go to and go when you get lost and
Sharon Galluzzo:you're tired and you're frustrated. Oh, wait a minute.
Sharon Galluzzo:Let me pull out. Let me pull out our goals. Where are we going?
Sharon Galluzzo:What are we doing here? That can recenter you and get you set to
Sharon Galluzzo:keep moving forward. And the important thing that I with this
Sharon Galluzzo:principle is the next level goal. And what I mean by next
Sharon Galluzzo:level goal is, I think you should have three types of
Sharon Galluzzo:goals. First of all, you should have realistic goals, which
Sharon Galluzzo:could be say, in sales I'm going to do my goals for next year are
Sharon Galluzzo:going to be that I'm going to increase my sales by 10% or 20%
Sharon Galluzzo:or 30% whatever, or by so much money, or I'm going to reach
Sharon Galluzzo:this level of income. So you can just define those goals, and
Sharon Galluzzo:those are, those are realistic goals that you could and should,
Sharon Galluzzo:in quotes, get to in the next year. Those are realistic goals.
Sharon Galluzzo:The second type of goals that I love my clients to have is
Sharon Galluzzo:stretch goals, and that means that you're going to set the
Sharon Galluzzo:same goals you set for your realistic goals however you're
Sharon Galluzzo:going to set them even higher. And how do you know when you
Sharon Galluzzo:have a really good stretch goal? Here's how you know when you
Sharon Galluzzo:write that we're just going to stick with sales goals. Now when
Sharon Galluzzo:you write that number down, you feel some kind of way. You get
Sharon Galluzzo:sick on the stomach. You have your your heart starts pounding
Sharon Galluzzo:a little bit faster. You get a little sweaty. Your palms are
Sharon Galluzzo:wet. You it triggers a reaction in you. That's like, I don't
Sharon Galluzzo:know if I can do that that, and if I did that, that would be
Sharon Galluzzo:really awesome. So that's a really good stretch goal. When
Sharon Galluzzo:you look at it and you're like, Ooh, wow, baby. And then the
Sharon Galluzzo:third type of goals is your next level goals, and that is not
Sharon Galluzzo:necessarily in the next year or two years. It might be five
Sharon Galluzzo:years in the future, or it might just be the next place you want
Sharon Galluzzo:to be. So a Strat the next level goal might be, well, I have this
Sharon Galluzzo:business, and I want to, I want to expand my reach by starting a
Sharon Galluzzo:podcast. But a podcast isn't really what you need to be doing
Sharon Galluzzo:right now. However, that's where you want to take. You take
Sharon Galluzzo:yourself and your business the next level. So the next level is
Sharon Galluzzo:going to be, I want a podcast. So that is something where you
Sharon Galluzzo:it's it's not an immediate thing, however you're working
Sharon Galluzzo:towards it. So you know what direction to take your business.
Sharon Galluzzo:For example, whenever my husband and I had our business in our
Sharon Galluzzo:home when we started, we set a next level goal for in five
Sharon Galluzzo:years, we will be in a retail location, and that was a day one
Sharon Galluzzo:next level goal. Honestly didn't have a name for it at that time.
Sharon Galluzzo:I just knew that was the next place we wanted to take our
Sharon Galluzzo:business. So for the first four and a half years, everything
Sharon Galluzzo:that we did led to our ability to reach that goal in under five
Sharon Galluzzo:years. So that was our next level goal. So I highly
Sharon Galluzzo:recommend that if you want to move forward, you want to keep
Sharon Galluzzo:going. If you have a legacy in mind, a difference that you want
Sharon Galluzzo:to make, that not only do you choose the goals that you can
Sharon Galluzzo:see in front of you, but where do you want to go next? And
Sharon Galluzzo:sometimes that might be retirement. Who knows? Um, that
Sharon Galluzzo:next level goal is up to you and your business so but working and
Sharon Galluzzo:working towards that next level goal actually makes a tremendous
Sharon Galluzzo:difference in everything that you do, because you know where
Sharon Galluzzo:you're going. And before you ask, could your next level goal
Sharon Galluzzo:change? Yes, absolutely. It's not set in concrete. It is that
Sharon Galluzzo:next thing that you want to work towards. However, if you get
Sharon Galluzzo:into the next year or two and you're like, you know what,
Sharon Galluzzo:maybe I don't want to have a podcast. Maybe what I want to do
Sharon Galluzzo:is go around the country and speak. I don't know, but you can
Sharon Galluzzo:choose a different next level goal. You just adjust what
Sharon Galluzzo:you're doing for that next level goal. And then the final rule of
Sharon Galluzzo:success that I want to talk about today is one of the most
Sharon Galluzzo:powerful things you can do in your business and one of the
Sharon Galluzzo:most powerful things you can do in your life. Like I said
Sharon Galluzzo:before, these success rules can apply to everything. We
Sharon Galluzzo:specifically use them for our community and in our businesses,
Sharon Galluzzo:and that final rule of success is simply decide, decide what
Sharon Galluzzo:you're going to do. We spend so much wasted energy, effort,
Sharon Galluzzo:time, money, and everything else. In indecision when we are
Sharon Galluzzo:thinking about something or we just don't know yet, and we
Sharon Galluzzo:where we ask people for their opinion, and we're. I might even
Sharon Galluzzo:go on AI and say, What do you think? Chat? GPT, you you're
Sharon Galluzzo:getting information from everywhere, or maybe you're just
Sharon Galluzzo:so overwhelmed you can't see the forest for the trees. So the
Sharon Galluzzo:important element in this principle, in this rule is
Sharon Galluzzo:decide, make a choice and start moving in that direction,
Sharon Galluzzo:because what's going to happen is, if it's not the right
Sharon Galluzzo:direction, you'll know within the first couple of steps maybe,
Sharon Galluzzo:however, there's also an idea and a and a truth in the world
Sharon Galluzzo:that there isn't a wrong decision to make, it's just the
Sharon Galluzzo:decision that you make today. Go ahead and make the decision,
Sharon Galluzzo:start moving in that direction, and you will find, most of the
Sharon Galluzzo:time that as you begin to move in that direction, after you've
Sharon Galluzzo:made the decision and start moving that way, that the
Sharon Galluzzo:everything sort of comes together and that path opens up.
Sharon Galluzzo:That doesn't mean the path is smooth and there aren't any road
Sharon Galluzzo:bumps. Doesn't mean that there's no roadblocks or bumps you need
Sharon Galluzzo:to get over. It just means that the path is opened up and you
Sharon Galluzzo:can actually make a difference in your business by making a
Sharon Galluzzo:decision, even if someone's like, well, then I don't know if
Sharon Galluzzo:that's the decision I would have made. It's okay make the
Sharon Galluzzo:decision that's right for you in the moment, and don't worry
Sharon Galluzzo:about if it's the perfectly right decision. So many times,
Sharon Galluzzo:so many conversations I've had in my life, I don't want to make
Sharon Galluzzo:the wrong decision. How about we change that around to make a
Sharon Galluzzo:decision and move in that direction and see if that
Sharon Galluzzo:decision isn't the right one to be making. So I don't think you
Sharon Galluzzo:can make a wrong decision, because everything that you do
Sharon Galluzzo:takes you to a different place, and if you decide you don't want
Sharon Galluzzo:to be in that place, well you can just make a decision to turn
Sharon Galluzzo:left and go to the go another direction. The world is not
Sharon Galluzzo:going to end the your business is not going to fail, most, more
Sharon Galluzzo:than likely, by making a decision. So make the decision.
Sharon Galluzzo:Be firm in making decisions. One of my other podcasts is on the
Sharon Galluzzo:five levels of commitment, being, understanding, making a
Sharon Galluzzo:commitment and making a decision and going into it and being
Sharon Galluzzo:committed to it. And if you want to listen to that podcast, you
Sharon Galluzzo:can listen to the five levels of commitment, and it goes into a
Sharon Galluzzo:little bit deeper on what you do when you decide and how to be
Sharon Galluzzo:committed to that decision. However, making the decision is
Sharon Galluzzo:the crucial piece. You have to make a decision, because if you
Sharon Galluzzo:stay in the swirl, in the whirlpool of indecision and
Sharon Galluzzo:confusion, it will drag you down. It will make your business
Sharon Galluzzo:less successful than it could be. It will make you feel
Sharon Galluzzo:overwhelmed. It will, it will. It will affect your mental
Sharon Galluzzo:health, it will affect your emotional health. Being in
Sharon Galluzzo:confusion and indecision. A is a choice and B, it's very, very
Sharon Galluzzo:detrimental to everything, because it just keeps you stuck.
Sharon Galluzzo:So to recap, the rules of success are, see adventure, take
Sharon Galluzzo:up space, choose joy, invest in yourself. Keep the next level in
Sharon Galluzzo:mind and decide. So I hope you take these rules of success and
Sharon Galluzzo:you ruminate on them and you choose maybe just one, that
Sharon Galluzzo:you're going to go, Oh, I'm going to work on this rule of
Sharon Galluzzo:success. I'm going to work on this for the next week or two
Sharon Galluzzo:weeks or month, and I'm going to really dive in, and I'm going to
Sharon Galluzzo:explore this rule of success and see how it changes my business.
Sharon Galluzzo:And if you want to do all seven, I highly recommend that as well.
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