Melvin Feller Business Consultants Group Looks at How to Get Out Of Your Own Way

Melvin Feller Business Consultants Group Looks at How to Get Out Of Your Own Way

Melvin Feller Business Group in Burkburnett Ministries and Dallas Texas and Lawton Oklahoma. Our mission is to call and equip a generation of Christian entrepreneurs to do business as ministry. We provide workshops and resources that help companies discover how to do business God’s way and provide a positive outreach as the director. When the heart of a business is service rather than self it can be transformed into a fruitful business ministry earning a profit and being of service to the community and their customers. Melvin Feller is currently pursuing another graduate degree in business organizations.
How to Get Out Of Your Own Way by Melvin Feller
How to Get Out Of Your Own Way by Melvin Feller

Every weekend, you recommit to working more efficiently and getting your business under control. You sit yourself down, set your goals and prioritize: get Inbox to zero, sort through receipts and systematize online marketing efforts. You may even use a fancy note-taking program like Evernote or Workflow, to feel extra on top of things!

]Fast forward to Monday morning. You are at your desk — pumped and ready to conquer. You open your Inbox. Three seconds later, you are greeted by a tidal wave of black subject lines crashing against the screen. You hold your breath, start at the top and work your way down to the ones you did not get to last week.

Two hours later, exhausted and only halfway through, you decide you deserve a break. You glance at the shoebox of receipts sitting on your desk — the next task on your list and handy alternative to going through your e-mails.

Before you can pick up the box, your hands take on a mind of their own typing in the URL for Facebook instead. Several pictures later, you look at the clock and realize half the day is gone! The task list you were so excited about making your Goliath now feels painstakingly endless. Therefore, you give up (sometimes for the day, sometimes for the week).

Do not feel bad, you are not alone — we have ALL been there!

The anxiety when the phone rings (maybe it is someone whose email you never saw).

The uncertainty of how much money is actually coming in.

The contradiction of wanting more clients, while barely meeting current demands.

You know this is NO way to run a business — so, why don’t you do something about it? Why do you continue giving into temptations that sidetrack you KNOWING it does not serve you? Is it lack of self-control? On the other hand, motivation? Moreover, how can you break the cycle?

The process is, actually, twofold.

Accept that being sidetracked by emotions is perfectly normal.
Humans are hardwired to experience emotions. According to psychologists, we have two coexisting brain systems — emotional and rational. The emotional side is instinctive and is responsible for our feelings. The rational side is analytical and is responsible for planning situations.

Acknowledgment of these separate systems can be traced back to Plato and Freud. Our contemporaries refer to them as the “Doer” and the “Planner,” or as Jonathan Haidt says in his book The Happiness Hypothesis, the “Elephant” and the “Rider.”

In Haidt’s hypothesis, the Elephant represents the inert emotional side —
The Rider represents the rational side — the one that suggests a diet to begin with, or urges you to do something about the detrimental way of running a business before its too late. The Rider acts like he is in charge, but the truth is the Elephant can overrule the Rider whenever he feels like it.

As a result, we constantly experience an emotional versus rational tug of war.
You cannot get rid of it! So, stop fighting with your emotional pulls, and do not beat yourself up over it when you give in! Remember, this is the same side of the brain that gave you inspiration, motivation and determination to follow your dreams in the first place.

GET CLEAR: WHY you are doing it, HOW you are going to accomplish it and WHAT will be your milestones

Since it’s no use fighting your emotional pulls, you’ve got to get them work FOR you. You do it by getting to the heart of WHY you do what you do. What is the big dream that will be possible out of your inconveniencing yourself, pushing yourself to the limit and getting out of your comfort zone? That clarity will give the Elephant force to your intentions.

Then, to appeal to your rational side, identify the actions that you are going to take to get to your goal. List them down and plan them out. The more accurately you define your steps, the easier it will be for the Rider in you to stay on track.

Lastly, recognize the small wins on your way to your big goal. Make sure you acknowledge yourself when you reach each milestone, no matter how insignificant it may seem.
Say, you are trying to accomplish a large goal, like getting your Inbox from 1,184 unopened e-mails to zero.

WHY do you want to do it? To be in control, to have a thriving business, to be able to bring in more clients, generate more revenue and get satisfaction that is more personal? Do not stop there — what is YOUR “why?”

Then plan your work and identify milestones. This might mean, setting aside time to open 15 emails every day for 4 months. Alternatively, maybe taking 15 minutes a day to deal with your backlog. On the other hand, even sorting e-mails into relevant folders before opening ones worth your immediate attention.

Structure it anyway you like, as long as you have a clear pathway to achieve your goal. AND THEN celebrate your accomplishments — 1month Inbox to Zero Anniversary; 500 Checked E-mails; 1 Folder Down 3 To Go Happy Hour! (You see how easy it would be to get an accountability group?)

You CAN do it!
Melvin Feller Business Consultant, Business Owner, Burkburnett ministries and Graduate Student Candidate in Business Organization
Melvin Feller Business Consultant, Business Owner, Burkburnett ministries and Graduate Student Candidate in Business Organization
Melvin Feller Business Consultants Ministries Group in Texas and Oklahoma. Melvin Feller founded Melvin Feller Business Consultants Group and Burkburnett Ministries in the 1970s to help individuals and organizations achieve their specific Victory. Victory as defined by the individual or organization are achieving strategic objectives, exceeding goals, getting results or desired outcomes and a positive outreach with grace and as a ministries. He has extensive experience assisting businesses achieve top and bottom line results. He has broad practical experience creating WINNERS in many organizations and industries. He has hands-on experience in executive leadership, operations, logistics, sales, program management, organizational development, training, and customer service. He has coached teams to achieve results in strategic planning, business development, organizational design, sales, and customer response and business process improvement. He has prepared and presented many workshops nationally and internationally.

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