How My Growing A Beard Helps You

I’m growing a beard.

Now I’m the first to acknowledge that the connection between this and helping businesses may seem a bit tenuous.

So just go with me on this one.

But first let me set the scene.

(Ladies, you might want to give this article a miss).

What’s so special about a beard?

Pretty much nothing.

It’s just facial hair.

In fact, I don’t like growing beards.

They’re itchy, bits and pieces get caught in them and I usually end-up looking like a fuzzy, yellow tennis ball when I try to grow one.

So I usually give-up and go back to the smooth-faced, chiselled-jawed accountant you all know.

But it’s the PROCESS a guy goes through to get one that’s important.

And despite the end-result (I.e. fuzzy, yellow tennis-ball beard), there’s benefit in the journey and I’ll probably learn quite a few things.

Things like …

• Persistence – there’ll be times when the temptation to give up will be overwhelming but if I hang in there, I’ll eventually achieve my goal and it will mean more to me.

• Withstanding inconvenience – I know I’m going to be itchy and I’ll have to clean it constantly. But that’s an inconvenience; not a problem. Life’s full of inconveniences.

• Not caring what people think – I’m growing a beard; not making a statement on Global Warming. If people think I look funny or have something against beards, not my problem.

Notice anything about these points?

They’re the same as what you need at times when running your business.

Together with a healthy dose of stubbornness and tenacity.

Now I’ll probably end-up simply shaving it off once I’ve completed this goal, but it won’t matter.

I’ll have done something I’ve never done before.

So next time you see a businessman with a beard, perhaps appreciate the part it’s played in his success.

Who would have thought a growing a beard could give such profound business learnings?

Not me that’s for sure, but there you have it.

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