Hello all,
I just read a very interesting story about one man’s experience with using the restroom at a black owned establishment. He got locked in the restroom, he had to call his friend on the cell phone so he can inform the owner that he had been locked in the restroom for 15 minutes. Only to be coached by a restaurant employee who slid a butter knife under the door -on how to use the butter knife to free himself from the restroom. WOW!
How often have you attempted to support someone of the African American or Black descent in their business venture only to find that the service or promises were far from what was delivered? Did it leave a bad taste in your mouth?
Are you the black business owner that said you would deliver the goods at a certain time and it did not happen? Did you forget to follow-up? Did you make excuses for not being on time to an important meeting? Did you have a bad attitude or appear needy and unpolished?
All business owners are guilty of being less than on top of our “A” game at some point in time, but I find as a black woman when I demonstrate these less than favorable characteristics my business suffers. Why? Because word-of-mouth travels very fast! But I have to admit these experiences happen until you are conscious of what creates abundance and wealth.
Being conscious that, success is an attitude and we must practice it by building the success attitude muscles. So how do we do that?
1. We as African Americans or Black business owners must be open to change and criticism.
2. We must have coaches and mentors that can teach us in love what to do so we are not operating restaurants with faulty bathroom doors.
3. We must continue to invest in education and self-improvement so that we are exuding excellence from the inside out!
4. We must release the self-sabotaging behaviors that cause us to not attract the high paying business client or close the six figure business deal.
As business owners there is always room for improvement and self-reinvention, but remember you are representing YOU! What you don’t want to happen is your integrity and your character to be diminished based on your unwillingness to have an attitude of success. You will (sad to say) be judge by what you deliver and how you deliver it.
So please be mindful of how you are operating your business. Make sure you are delivering with the spirit of success. Because success breeds success and abundance. As a result, money will follow and chase you down -but be a conscious and competent student of success first.
I have provided some resources that you can use to continue on your road and journey to the top of your craft. My brother and my sister let’s not be another butter knife story! Do what you have to do and be committed to your personal growth, after all ,you are representing YOU!
Remember success is an attitude! Do you have that attitude?
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That’s all for now and I am Nekisha-Michelle:
Nekisha-Michelle Bakre, has a mission of being a “spiritual spa of In-powerment for the inner and outer you.” Bakre is available for keynote speaking engagements, facilitation of SpaJama W.O.R.K.S. retreats, spa business mentoring, and Executive & Life Coaching. To learn more about SpaJama W.O.R.K.S. and Living Vivaciously Consulting, visit the Web site www.spajamaworks.com
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