Restaurant Success Secret #2

You Must Take Action on the Right Activities.

There are two parts to this.  Taking action is one thing.  Lots of people, especially in the restaurant business, are very good – they’re not lazy people – they work hard, long hours, so they’re doing lots of things.  But… You need to put all your effort and energy into the right activities.

You have to recognize that success is based on action, not ideas.  There’s no money in ideas, no money in the collection of them.  “You need to take the ideas and put them into action.  You need to take action on the ideas and get going on them.”  Pick one thing and focus on it and get that up and running and then move onto the next.

The more action you take, the more results that will come.  If you want massive success, you need to take massive action.  With massive action come mistakes and problems and even chaos.  You need to be all right with that – with lots of success comes chaos.

Don’t dwell on the failures.  Learn from them.  Recognize that there’s something that you did or didn’t do that got that result so you need to make a change or move on to the next thing.

You need to focus and figure out what you are spending your time on.  What are the right activities that are going to get me where I want to be the quickest?  Is being in my kitchen dicing carrots going to make me more money?  You need to look at what you’re doing and ask yourself if those are the activities that are going to lead to success.

It goes back to a comfort level in being busy, dealing with one crisis after another, thinking that’s your job.  It’s busy work.  Take a step back and say to yourself, are these the things – the things that I’m working on now – the things that are going to take me to where I want to go?  Are you the best person working on them?  How can you get yourself away from that so you can be working on the right activities?

Remember, there is chaos involved in great, successful businesses – controlled chaos.

Schwarzkopf said that, “A bad decision is better than no decision.  A bad decision gets you into action.  A bad decision can be fixed.  No decision leaves you immobile.  You can’t fix or improve a non-decision and inaction.”  At least you’re moving forward.  When you’re not doing anything, nothing happens.

Don’t be afraid of making decisions and moving forward, you can always adjust; but doing nothing can usually be the worst thing that you can do.

Without having a foundation, a desire to change, a willingness to confront the situation head on and being open-minded and willing to learn, and taking action on the right activities – the other stuff doesn’t matter.

These success clues are fundamental and part of a foundation that individuals can build upon to really have that success.

Side Note:
As we continue through these secrets you are going to find the actions “The Right Activities”. If there is anything that I can do for you it is provide you with step by step the right actions at the right time.  Whether it is through my extensive in depth done for you systems and checklists or the step by step promotions and the background to implement them quickly and effectively simply by changing “your restaurant” name and address and printing off the hundreds of done for you promotions… the right activities will lead you to success.

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