The concept sounds simple, and it really is. And yet, it applies to your life, your relationships, your health, and your business. Happy People focus on happy things not depressing things or things that make you upset.
It’s such a simple rule, but putting it into practice can be hard. After all, life happens. When it happens, it’s not always good stuff. Bad things happen, and how you react to that can make or break your ability to create a better life for yourself.
The 5-Minute Rule
Let’s talk about a simple yet effective rule I’ve learned to live by. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got is the 5 Minute Rule. If something bad happens, you have five minutes to kick, scream, and cry about it.
Then after you get it out of your system, you move on and start focusing on the solution instead of the problem. It’s normal to be upset, but if you focus too much on the problem, that problem will expand more than it will contract.
Focus Where You Want Your Energy
Think about it. Couples in healthy relationships focus on making each other feel appreciated and loved. Disgruntled couples focus on what they don’t like about their significant other. Healthy people focus on exercising, supplements, proper sleep habits, and healthy eating. Unhealthy people focus on fast food, desserts, and being couch potatoes.
Think about what it takes to be a Champion Salon Owner. They focus on the opportunities to improve their business. Bad salon owners focus on the challenges that arise from running a small business.
If you focus on growing your EFTs, you will start to find countless ways on how to improve your presentation and close rate. If you focus on growing your LPPA (Lotion Per Person average), you will start to find numerous ways to increase your lotions’ sales.
If you focus on growing your Red Light business, you will start to find more and more ways to grow your Red Light business. Same goes for the spray portion of your business. Think about growth!
If you focus on annoying customers, then you will find more annoying customers. If you focus on headache employees, then you will find more and more employees who cause you aggravation.
If you focus on having a great team of employees, then you will start to find more and more great team members. You naturally become more productive and grateful when you see the upsides of life.
But Focus On Something
Did you ever meet someone who was a ball of talent, but could focus enough to tie their own shoes? That’s just as big of an issue as focusing on the wrong thing. Bad salon owners often do unfocused tasks or just focus on the ugliest, bleakest part of their lives.
This also can be seen as a lack of focus or focusing on things that in the large scope of things aren’t very important or don’t bring much productivity to your business. For example, a salon owner who’s struggling with training one particular new hire might end up thinking of 50 different ways to admonish, train and deal with their hire.
The thing is, this same salon owner might have a bunch of rockstar salon attendants already on the team. What makes a Champion Salon Owner is their ability to control their focus through good times and bad.
What also makes a champion a champion is the ability to acknowledge and then focus on improving weaknesses. But you can’t do all that without having focus on the right things. Focus on being a Champion Salon Owner.
