Wealthy Salon/Spa Owners View Problems As an Opportunity To Grow, Struggling Salon/Spa Owners Don't!

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Copyright © 2011 Dan Lok


Wealthy salon/spa owners view challenges and problems like bodybuilders see weight; an opportunity for some resistance to build a life with and grow. Body builders call it resistance training and they choose to do it. They actually like to work out even though it is hard work.

On the other hand, struggling salon/spa owners avoid problems and challenges. They try to bury them, avoid them at all costs. They create distractions like all kinds of busy work, drama and excuses just so they can avoid the problem for another day or week.

What is ironic is that it takes the same or more energy to avoid a challenge or problem as it does to solve the challenge. It takes ongoing mental energy to keep pushing problems out of the mind. It is real work to constantly distract oneself from the problem and challenge at hand to keep distracting yourself.

We have a choice to make ourselves either miserable or to make ourselves strong. The sad tragedy is that is takes the same amount of work and energy.

It is like a struggling salon/spa owner thinks their job is to avoid problems and challenges. And by avoiding them they are creating even more misery than they avoid.

It's not the problems or challenges themselves that make them miserable as they think. Struggling salon/spa owners own deliberate act of avoidance is what lowers their energy, esteem and self respect.

Too often the struggling salon/spa owners think they must avoid embarrassment. "What is my staff going to think?" is one of the questions that pops into their minds before considering any action. "What if they see that I don't know exactly what I am doing?"

This habit about worrying about other people's judgments and avoiding embarrassment starts typically begins in junior high and too often it never leaves us. We start to form our permanent identities in junior high.

Did we do this by design? Of course not! Who knowingly choose a life designed by a teenager? But that's exactly what we've done. Struggling salon/spa owners try to live their lives designed by teenagers. No wonder they are struggling.

The first step on the path to becoming a wealthy salon/spa owner is to see how you got here. Struggling salon/spa owners feel stuck inside their personality not realizing that they have a strong will and spirit deeper inside of them. They have been brainwashed by "who they are" instead of focusing on who they can be.

Wealthy salon/spa owners know that they so much more then sum total of their problems and challenges. They are willing to rise above their personalities of who they think they are. They are willing to take the risk of being embarrassed. They are focusing their energies on overcoming the challenge not worrying about what others say or think.

Question: How often are you willing to face your challenges a problems head on?




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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