Every quarter I attend my own professional development from an organization called Strategic Coach. I travel to Chicago and sit in a room full of entrepreneurs from around the country and Canada who blow me away each and every time we’re together. I feel like the guy who goes to the Doctor and is told he is burning the candle at both ends. The patient responds, “I know that, and I am here for more wax.”
The class I’m in now is currently lead by Strategic Coach Founder, Dan Sullivan. Very creative, passionate and successful. Dan has been at this since 1974 and has a tremendous number of tools to share business owners, and words of wisdom to ponder. Today he hit us with one that has had as much impact on me as any I have heard in the past four years. He titled these Referability Habits, meaning that if you do these four things, people will refer and extend more opportunities your way. I actually think these are life habits.
- Show up on time
- Do what you say
- Finish what you start
- “Please” & “thank you”
How great would it be if people knew you or I were to always live by these four simple habits, and we could count on others to do the same? I fail miserably too often with these four simple habits, and this realization makes me kind of ill. I have some work to do here.
I’ll be back with my next post Thursday….PROMISE.