Many years ago you started a business and the time you put into it, added up faster than you care to admit.  The clients came and enjoyed your business.  They purchased items, they even may have joined your organization and all seems to be going great. Then suddenly something happens:  A CHANGE.

Thinking about the vision of a turtle on a fencepost, this appears to be an issue with many businesses today. They have closed their eyes to the environment around them and have additionally decided to not get involved with a decision or a pathway of a certain direction, hence the sitting on the fencepost.


Do you invest time daily to look around, start each day with a look forward for new ideas, and an analysis of yesterday activities to access the good and the bad that occurred in the past.

Looking at three things consistently will ensure that we are moving in the right direction:

1. Culture/Vision do you know the vision and the culture of your business. Do you access your movements every day to assure that your decisions are vision sound?
2. History: look to the past often.  If you visit the past daily then you are keeping track on a daily basis and that time is spent wisely and effectively.  When we wait too long to access the past, it becomes an overwhelming task and one that we will resist doing.
3. Future:  do you daily take time to look ahead and see if the pathway ahead is leading you in the direction that you want to take.  Is your map out and are you accessing the plan to allow you to move your business in the direction that you are wishing to go

The turtle may have been raised to the top of the fencepost, but to stay there it will require a constant vigilance of the surroundings to stay on top of that post and hence stay on top of your world.