Wealthy Salon/Spa Owners Focus on What They Want!

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Copyright © 2011 Dan Lok


I have talked to a lot of successful salon/spa owners or well as other successful business owners. There is a common thread in all their stories. Success leaves clues.

I heard this story of a successful salon owner in Houston, Texas. As the story goes a water heater in a closet had overheated. When one of the staff opened the closet door flames erupted into the salon. (I am sure that doesn't happen in the salon. We have had a flood though that is a story for another day). Luck or fate had it that there was a fireman in the salon at the time and he grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. The fire was out but what a mess. There was a white powdery substance all over the salon. The damage was done.

The salon was in a mall. Bill the mall manager called the owner of salon telling him about the fire. The owner came to the mall to access the damage. The mall manager met the owner David at his salon in the later afternoon to discuss the situation. Bill had already viewed the damage and figured it would take David two weeks to a month to do the repairs and reopen. There was a lot of damage the carpet might be ruined, the walls were scorched, wiring need to be repaired there was smoke damage and there also might be some hidden damage. This fire would be the talk of the mall for a while. Everyone is thankful that no one got hurt.

When David heard Bill say it would take him a month to reopen his salon he said "Not a chance, I'll be open for business at 10 am tomorrow. You might want to stop by for a haircut."

See David focused on what he wanted. He immediately called his brother-in-law who was a tradesman. He told him grab everyone you can, painters, electrician, carpenters etc and get them to over to salon tonight. The sooner the better! Tell them I will bonus each one of them $200 but they've got to work all night.

An army of workers showed up, rolled up their sleeves and got to work. They replaced the damage material, repaired the wiring and plumbing, plastered and painted and cleaned every inch of the salon removing the layer of white powdery substance from every nook and cranny in the salon. An exhausted though happy crew left the salon at 8 am the next morning.

Sure enough, at 10 am that morning Bill the mall manager was there to see him open his doors for business.

David the wealthy salon owner could have felt sorry for himself, talked about the bad luck, blame others and wallow in his pain and struggle. He could have easily been miserable for a day or two, who would blame him.

David knew that if he focused on the pain of the situation and thought about nothing but the pain he wouldn't get anywhere. He understood that he had to accept the pain for what it was and then focus completely on what he wanted. The more you focus on what you want, the less the pain matters.

Wealthy salon/spa owners know they need to take over a challenging situation, reinvent the situation by focusing on what do they want to create form this situation. Struggling salon/spa owners get stuck focusing on the struggle and don't take the first step towards creating what they want. They focus on their fear instead of what they want.

The next time you face a challenge in your salon or spa focus on what you want.




About the Author:
Dan Lok was a college dropout working as a grocery bagger in a local supermarket for minimum wage when he set out to make something of himself. A true immigrant success story - Dan came to North America as a teenager with little knowledge of English and no contacts. He became a self-made millionaire by the age of twenty-seven. Dan wrote about his experience of opening a successful salon in his book Lies Salon Owners Believe And The Truth That Sets Them Free. Visit Dan at: http://www.salonbusinessexpert.com/


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