{"id":31995,"date":"2019-04-11T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/?p=31995"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:01:23","slug":"business-report-succeed-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2019\/04\/business-report-succeed-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Report: Succeed Anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31533\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31533 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/01\/cruz-c-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/01\/cruz-c-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/01\/cruz-c.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Cruz, president of Lighthouse Advisors LLC in Queensbury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">All entrepreneurs share one secret.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Whether you have just started your company &#8212; or are running one you started a while ago.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The secret is in the mantra, \u2018Succeed Anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They understand that we all live in an imperfect world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And, that life is not fair.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They may not even have a clear picture of their goal. Yet, they keep moving forward. That separates them from the pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The entrepreneur does the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their focus is on two aspects. Strengths and opportunities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not their weaknesses, they merely want to be aware of them and mitigate them. Not the threats. They cannot do much about threats.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They know that they can make their strengths stronger. They want to use them to keep moving in the right direction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They look out for opportunities. Think of opportunities as \u2018What if?\u2019 The \u2018If Only\u2019 part of their question helps them see new paths to success. That helps them see themselves as disrupters. They also know that you cannot manage change. You must embrace it, and ride its wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These people build solutions that get them to 80 or 90 percent of the goal. They know fretting about getting to perfect is useless.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As Jim Collins wrote, perfection is the enemy of greatness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They get to 90% and their momentum carries their organizations forward.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They handle the obstacles that pop up. They relentlessly pursue their objectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They take action when things get in their way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And they leave the rest of the naysayers on the dust. It helps them to Succeed Anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All entrepreneurs share one secret.\u00a0 Whether you have just started your company &#8212; or are running one you started a while ago.\u00a0 The secret is in the mantra, \u2018Succeed Anyway\u201d. They understand that we all live in an imperfect world.\u00a0 And, that life is not fair.\u00a0 They may not even have a clear picture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":31533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Business Report: Succeed Anyway! - Glens Falls Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2019\/04\/business-report-succeed-anyway\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Business Report: Succeed Anyway! - Glens Falls Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All entrepreneurs share one secret.\u00a0 Whether you have just started your company &#8212; or are running one you started a while ago.\u00a0 The secret is in the mantra, \u2018Succeed Anyway\u201d. 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