Super Stylist

Are you starting out in the hairdressing industry?

If you are one of those people just starting out on a career in the hairdressing industry, ‘congratulations and welcome’ to what can be an exciting, fun, worthwhile and potentially well paid career.

Now, I say ‘can be’ because for some people it doesn't become an exciting and well paid career, but I want it to be for you so I have 5 bits of advice that will help you on your way…

The first one is ‘Never stop learning!’

Now, if you are just starting out then there’s a real possibility that you have not long finished school and perhaps this is your first job.

But, perhaps, unlike school, you are now learning about something that you are excited and passionate about!

In fact, I’d take it the next step and say that you need to be passionate about it, because as well as a lot of fun there is also a lot of hard work and sacrifice in the years ahead if you are to succeed!

So my number ‘1’ piece of advice is ‘to be the best hairdresser you can be’

And for that to happen you must never stop learning, soak up every opportunity that comes your way and look for every opportunity to learn from everyone you can.

Learning is an attitude, so don’t wait for someone else to organise or pay for it, remember that it’s no one’s job to make you successful it’s down to you.

There is a great little quote made up of 10, 2 letter words “If it is to be it is up to me”

My second bit of advice is to acknowledge and understand that ‘Productivity matters’

You are now part of a business, someone owns it, and as well as doing great haircuts and colours etc you need to balance that with the recognition that the purpose of the business is to make a profit, in fact if it doesn't make a profit then the business won’t be able to exist and you won’t have a job.

So just like in school ‘results ‘matter’. When you’re at school your results in the form of exams etc are what matters.

In business it’s not so much results based on exams that your performance is measured on, its results based on your productivity.

In hairdressing that's things like the amount of clients you have each day, how many of them come back to you, and how much they spend on products and services. These things are often referred to as ‘Key Performance Indicators’ or ‘K.P.I’s and the results that you get will ultimately determine how much you earn.

My third bit of advice is to understand that ‘You can’t do it alone!’

You are now an important part of a team and you need to remember that other people are relying on you, because if someone on the team is not doing their job properly it affects everyone else on the team.

Now, you might feel like you are at the bottom at the moment and that you are not important, well that’s not true, everyone on the team matters and everyone has a contribution to make to the success of the team. The only difference is that other people on the team have different roles and responsibilities than you. But trust me when I say, “you are definitely an important part of the team!”

My fourth piece of advice should be an easy one and that is to ‘Have fun!’

Working in a salon is a great job, and it can be a lot of fun and I loved it!

You’ll often read that in surveys where they measure ‘career happiness’, hairdressing is always near the top and often comes up on the list as being number 1!

We are not usually saving lives or changing the world but we do have a huge impact on people and how they feel about themselves.

It’s important that we are professional at work, but it’s also important that we have fun and having fun doesn’t mean being unprofessional.

If you have fun, people want to be around you. If you have fun the day goes quicker, fun is more conducive to creativity and happiness for yourself and those you come into contact with. So make work fun!

My fifth and final piece of advice is ‘Sweep to perfection!’

What I mean by that is that if you are just starting out in a hairdressing career then you will probably begin with jobs like sweeping up, shampooing and making coffee etc but make a commitment to yourself that whatever you do you will do it to the very best of your ability.

Don’t be one of the those people that say, ‘When I’m a stylist I’ll’ be a perfectionist’.

Perfection is a habit and there is a saying that goes, “As you do anything is how you will do everything” so if you sweep the floor, “then be a perfectionist!”, if you’re shampooing make it the best shampoo that client has ever had, and if you make a coffee present it like you work at the Ritz!

Remember, ‘As you do anything, is how you will do everything’

I have an online course called Super Stylist it has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

What will you learn today?

Everyone I have ever met who is successful at what they do have one thing in common…

They never ever stop learning!

They learn from what works and they learn from what doesn’t, they learn from their own mistakes and they learn from the mistakes of others.

They learn from the books they read and the videos they watch, they learn from the courses they do and the seminars they attend …but they never stop learning.

“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got” and for most people “getting what they’ve always got” is not what they want, they want more!

If you are like most people and you’re not satisfied with where you currently are in life and you want ‘more’ in whatever that means to you whether it’s more clients, or more money, or more time off or more stuff!

Whatever it is, then in order to get it you need to learn new skills and gain more knowledge… Because the skills and knowledge that you currently have is what has got you to where you are today …and they are not going to get you to where you want to be tomorrow.

What are you going to do about that?

Will you just keep on doing what you already know and hope for a different result, spending all your time justifying why you do what you do, blaming everyone else, or blaming the economy your colleagues or something else beyond your control?

Or will you do something about it? Because there is another way…

You could learn more!

You could learn to think differently, to act differently!

You could learn more about color, or retail, or how to inspire clients to want more services… or you could learn more about people, how to motivate them, how to lead, manage and inspire them …or you could just keep doing what you currently do and hoping for a different result.

Staying with what you know is often [on the surface anyway] easier, at least it’s predictable and probably getting a consistent result.

The problem is, it’s not the result you want!

If you want a different result you have to learn something different and do something different, and that often means stepping outside your comfort zone and into the unknown and that’s not always easy.

Outside your comfort zone is where potential failure is, it’s where the potential for rejection and humiliation are. It’s where fear and failure are to be found.

But, it’s also where growth is. It’s where new knowledge, new skills, new insights and opportunity are, and it’s where success, fun, money and excitement are found.

You owe it to yourself…

No one owes you ‘success’! Not your colleagues or your partners, not your families, not your boss or your team, not the government, the product manufacturers or the clients…

The only person that owes you success is ‘YOU’,You owe it to yourself to be the very best you can be.

So, what will you learn this year?

What questions will you ask of yourself?

What books will you read?

What online course will you do?

What new skills and knowledge will you acquire?

If you need some help and you like what I do, I have an online course called Super Stylist it has helped many people all over the world learn more and become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Are you achieving your goals?

Are you achieving your goals? If you are like most people the answer will be, “some of them, yes!” And some of them “No”.

I always have goals. And they are usually about achieving a certain ‘result or outcome’ within a particular time frame.

And with goals like that you either achieve the goal or you don’t. Which can be uplifting and rewarding if you do! And fairly brutal if you don’t.

But there is a middle ground, and that is where the focus should be. The middle ground is more about momentum and progress. Let me explain.

Essentially, there are 2 types of goals.

First you have ‘Outcome’ goals. The ‘outcome goal’ is the end result goal, it’s a goal that is about achieving a certain target.

So for example, in a hairdressing context that might be something like, ‘achieving a certain amount in ‘Take Home’ retail sales’.

Now, the second type of goal you have is, ‘Process’ goals. And ‘process goals’ are how the ‘Outcome’ or end result goal will be achieved.

So, to illustrate the difference first of all let’s look at a practical example in a hairdressing context…

To achieve ‘10 units of ‘Take home’ sales a week’. Is an outcome goal. Whereas, ‘To educate every client about the products you use on their hair’. Is a process goal. And…

‘Weekly pre-bookings of 75%’. Is an outcome goal. And, ‘Give every client a reason to pre-book’. Is a process goal. I’m sure you get the idea.

Achieving your ‘Outcome or Results goals’ is dependant on achieving your ‘Process goals!’ You can’t get to the ‘result’ without the ‘process’.

The ‘Outcome Goal or Result’ is the culmination of the processes that gets you to the result you wanted.

Achieving the ‘Outcome goal is an event, it’s what I call the ‘Yahoo moment’ when you have achieved something.

But it’s the hard work, and that is the ‘process’ that makes ‘the event’ happen… or not!

You are 100% in control of the process, you either do them or you don’t. And whether or not you achieve the ‘Outcome Goal’ is the result.

When you start to look at goals this way, you realise that setting up a system for doing the process is more important than choosing a goal.

Everyone wants to make progress. And there is only one way to do it and that is to do the work! If we use the analogy of getting fitter and stronger it’s to do the repetitions.

Whether you are talking about getting fit or increasing your pre-bookings or growing your color percentage. Do the hard yards ‘consistently’ …Thats the key word ‘consistently’ and you will move towards the result you want.

So focus on the process, and you'll get results. If you ignore the goals and build the habits instead, the outcomes will be there anyway.

Often when people don’t achieve the outcome they wanted is because they are not focusing on the steps needed to make the ‘Outcome’ a reality.

So, “Focus on the process and the results will take care of themselves”

So, this is what I want you to do. Choose a RESULTS goal, any RESULTS goal. Write it down. And then right down 5 things, meaning 5 PROCESS goals that you need to do to achieve that result and focus on them. Not the goal!

If you want to learn more about goal setting and achieving your salon productivity goals I have an online course called ‘Super Stylist’ it has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Is it still working?

“Is it still working?” It doesn’t really matter what the ‘it’ I am referring to is.

Whether it’s the way you do consultations, the way you pre-book clients, the way you talk about home haircare or the way you use Instagram to market yourself. The question is, “Is it still working?”

Because, sometimes the easy option is to, ‘keep doing what you're doing just because ‘that’s what you've always done’.

But what worked ‘then’, maybe isn’t working anymore. And if that’s the case you need to question whether ‘it’s’ still serving you in the same way that it once did.

And if the answer is “NO!” Then that acceptance is the first step to changing what you do and therefore changing the outcome.

But it first starts by asking yourself the question, “Is it still working?”

And then giving yourself an honest answer. Not blaming others, and not justifying why… and not making excuses either. Just an acceptance, that ‘it’s not working anymore!’

I once read that the first step to getting a ‘break through’ is having a ‘break with’.

I take that as meaning that if you’re looking for a ‘breakthrough’, that you first need to have a ‘break with’ the way you are currently ‘thinking or doing’ things.

Once you’ve acknowledged that ‘it’s not working’ and that you need to change something, then you are already moving forward.

The next step is to have a brainstorming session, either by yourself, or with your partner, or your team and pose the question… ‘What might be some alternatives ways of achieving the outcome you want?’

Now, you are no longer stuck, you’re moving in the right direction. Keep going!

But, if it’s not working and you need some help I have an online course called ‘Super Stylist’ it has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

If there was just one thing!

If there was just 1 thing…

If there was 1 thing that you could do right now today [just 1 thing] that would make you a better hairdresser, or manager or salon owner what would it be?

Would it be to get better with your time keeping?

Or perhaps to make more effort with your own appearance?

Or maybe to smile more, and say good morning to everyone else on the team.

Or maybe it’s introducing yourself to clients, and making more of an effort to use clients names…

Or perhaps it’s remembering to show the client what you are using on their hair…

I’m sure you get the idea, there are countless examples…

They needn't be life changing things, and often thats the problem that we are looking for some huge thing to revolutionise our lives and our businesses when really it's often just about lots of little changes.

Just imagine if you changed just one thing every day imagine where you could be in a 12 months from now, imagine the difference that could make to your income, to your self esteem, to your relationships…

What's stopping you? You could do it yourself or you could do it as a team…

Either way, the idea is to just focus on one thing, one action or behaviour that you will focus on for a day…

Or maybe you only choose 1 a week… that's still 52 weeks. 52 actions or behaviours that will bring about a dramatic change to your circumstances…

If you want help focusing on your ‘one thing’ I have an online course called Super Stylist it has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

If you don’t grow, your business never will.

“If you don’t grow, your business never will”

That’s such an important sentence, “If you don’t grow, your business never will”. It doesn't matter whether you’re a stylist and ‘your business' refers to ‘your column', or if you are the salon owner, and it refers to ‘the salon'

The fact remains, that ‘if you don't grow, your business never will.'

So, whether you are an individual or a salon owner what are you doing to ensure that you keep learning, growing, and developing as a professional?

Unfortunately many people are doing nothing.

In some countries certain professions like accountants and lawyers have to commit every year to a minimum of two weeks further education as a condition of retaining their license to practise in their chosen field.

Likewise I come across some salons that build into employment contracts a requirement that employees need to attend a set number of training days to ensure that their motivation and skill level are always at there peak.

In hairdressing, like most occupations, once you have got your license your continued growth is down to you, and unfortunately for many people that is where they stop growing.

They expect someone else to spoon feed them ongoing education, but, the really successful people in any industry recognise that their education is never complete, and that ultimately it’s down to them to seek it out.

People like that are constantly looking for ‘an edge’ in every area, from their creative and technical development to the never ending fine tuning of their business and people skills.

Your business is a reflection of you, and if you don’t grow your business never will. No matter where I go, I am always aware that there are people in my audience who are very successful, and yet, here they are sat in the audience looking for any distinction that will help them continue to fine tune their business.

It's their ongoing commitment to learning by attending seminars, reading books, doing online courses and constantly looking for an edge which gives them the edge.

Too often the reason we stop growing is because of a fear of failure, a fear of getting it wrong.

It's not that those people that continue to grow never fail at what they are doing. They do, but the difference is that they don't see it as failure, instead they see failure as ‘feed-back'.

When something doesn't work out as imagined they see it as an opportunity to ask why, and they look for distinctions to make, so that they get a different result the next time.

They're not afraid of stepping outside their comfort zone because they know that is where they will find growth and opportunity.

Learning any new skill will always be a mixture of frustration and fun, but if you don't put yourself out there and try you will quickly be left behind.

So what are some practical next steps?

Well, can I suggest that you could brainstorm with your team this question:

“How can we create a salon culture of constant and never ending improvement that will benefit everyone?”

As you may already know, I have an online course called ‘Super Stylist’. It has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Just start!

We all have people we admire for their ability to do something that we can’t do as well.

Sometimes it’s hairdressing related, or it could be in any other area of life.

Whether it’s, ‘their ability to speak another language’, or ‘playing a musical instrument’, or their ‘sporting ability’ or their ‘communication skills’ or maybe it’s their ‘business skills’ that you admire.

I always find that it’s comforting to remember that there was a point in their life when they were only as good as you are now.

But what sets them apart isn’t usually some natural god given talent. But more often than not it’s that at some point in their life ‘they made a decision’ that they wanted to master a skill and then committed to doing whatever it took to make that happen.

I am sure that they would have had to make sacrifices, they would have invested time and money to learn whatever it was.

Perhaps, they read books on the topic, or did courses to learn whatever they could.

Maybe they took on a coach or they found a mentors and sought out advice from them.

But ultimately, I am sure, that they worked dam hard at whatever it was, practising and practising and refining their skills until they had mastered it.

But whatever it was, it all started at a time where they knew as little as you do now and they made a decision to start.

And that is what you have to do too.

‘Just start’ …because that’s the hardest bit…
Just start by reading that book
Just start by enrolling in that course
Just start by making that phone call
Just start pre-booking your clients
Just start talking about home haircare
Just start talking about colour
Just start trying to put hair up…

If you just start, whatever it is that you want to get better at then you are way ahead of most people who lack the courage to even try!

Don’t put it off…The more significance attached to something in my life or business, the more I seem to put off starting it. Instead I spend a lot of time getting ready to start!

Like everyone I can be plagued by thoughts of failure, “What if it goes wrong, what if someone complains, what if there’s no interest, what if I’m not smart enough, what if I lose money …or what if I fail!”

You will fail, so get over it. Fail fast! Learn, regroup and come at it again. Because in failing are the lessons! In failing are the seeds of getting it right.

After you fail you will be one step closer to getting it right.

You will be better informed! You will have made finer distinctions, you will know what doesn't work, and you will be way ahead of those that lacked the courage to even try.

So if and when you do ‘fail’. Get back up! Dust yourself off and go at it again!

In my online Super Stylist course I talk about many things but one of the most important things to focus on is having the right mindset.

The Super Stylist course has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Focus on the process and the results will come.

There’s a famous personal development book titled “The 7 habits of highly effective people” by Stephen Covey.

One of the 7 habits is, “Start with the end in mind,” which I interpret as meaning, “That if you have clear goal or outcome in mind ‘before you start’, then you are more likely to achieve the outcome that you want.”

Having goals is important, but having goals on there own won’t guarantee the results. If you want to increase the likelihood of getting the results you want, then start focusing on the processes involved and trust that the results will come.

The goal might be to pre-book a certain percentage of clients.

Or perhaps the goal is to achieve a certain figure in retail sales.

Regardless of what the goals is, achieving it depends on you ‘doing certain things’ that will bring about the result you want. And thats what I mean by the process.

A lot of times I see hairdressers put all the focus on getting the results with little emphasis on the process, but what I am suggesting is that if you focus on the ‘process’ the results will come.

For example, if we were talking about your salon retail sales it’s important to have a goal. But, then focus on what the steps are [the processes] that you need to do at every part of the client journey to maximise the chance of getting the result.

So, to illustrate what I mean. If you had a goal of achieving $500 a week in retail sales, that is better than not having a goal at all, but focusing on that isn’t going to get you there.

What you need to focus on is “What do you need to do and say or not do and say” in order to achieve $500 a week in retail and that’s what I mean by the ‘Process’.

So for example:

What are the things that you need to do and say during the consultation?

What are the things that you need to do and say while the clients getting their hair shampooed?

What are the things that you need to do and say at the styling station? And finally…

What are the things that you need to do and say at the reception desk?

Remember; ‘If you focus on the ‘process’ the results will come!’

As you may already know, I have an online course called ‘Super Stylist’. It will give you and your team the edge.

The Super Stylist course has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Make me feel important!

I was talking to someone recently who had met a very well known political figure. And even though they had only met her for a couple of minutes, they said that, “She had this ability to make you feel like you are the only one in the room and that she was completely focused on them!”

Now you and I are not in ‘politics’, but having the ability to ‘make someone feel like they are the only one in the room’, strikes me as a very important skill for us to develop as hairdressers.

We want our clients to feel important. We want them to feel that we don’t take them for granted. And we want them to feel that we are 100% focused on them.

Just think of the opposite for a minute… When I go to my local village Post Office and the guy who runs it makes me feel like a nuisance, like I am interrupting his day and how dare I come and want to send some packages.

He never makes eye contact, and grunts his way through the entire process even though I have been in there dozes of times.

It’s now got to the point where I play this little game with myself to see if I can get him to smile or even acknowledge that I exist. So far he is winning the game.

Or how about when you are dealing with someone, often they are in government departments or banks or other large institutions’ and they just treat you like a commodity and they couldn’t care less one way or the other about whatever your issue is.

Then occasionally you meet someone who just blows you away with service and friendliness and wanting to solve your problem, whatever it is! And so you leave with problem solved and happy. How good does that make you feel?

No business is ever always perfect but frequently get that positive feeling when I visit the Apple store with a tech issue I might have.

There is a famous quote from Mary Kay Ash who once said, “Pretend that every person you meet, has a sign around his or her neck that says ‘Make me feel important!’”

I love that quote, it should be on the staff room of every salon in the world!

So how do you do that? How do you make people feel important! Because it really isn’t that hard.

First of all, make eye contact and smile at them’ before you’ve even said a word.

Secondly, introduce yourself if it’s the first time you’ve met. Or even just engage them with a simple bit of small talk such as “How’s your day been so far?” And respond to their answer with sincerity.

Third, ask their name and use it in conversation. It’s the simplest thing to do but it instantly makes people feel important and starts to build a relationship.

Next, be attentive and have a helpful positive can do approach.

Use positive verbiage like, “It would be my pleasure” or “Thanks for your patience, I appreciate it” or “I’m always happy to help”.

Fifth, Listen to them, really listen, don’t interrupt or get defensive or try and second guess them … just give them your full attention and listen!

Next, remember them! Use their name if you can [even if you have to cheat] people feel important when you remember them.

And last is ‘Thank them’ …Remember they have a choice they don’t have to come to you!

So thank them, tell them it was great to see them and you’ll look forward to the next time.

So I am sure that you can add to that list as it’s know where near complete.

So, here’s an exercise for you and your team ‘What are 10 things that you can do as an individual, or as a team, that will make that client that walks in your door feel like they are important and that you are completely focused on them?

My online ‘Super Stylist’ course has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

And if you don’t already follow us, then don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @growmysalonbusiness

Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

Do you want more?

Do you want more?

I once heard it said that exactly ninety five percent of people would like to get, be, do or have more… And that the other 5% will probably lie about other things too!

Most people want more! They want more holidays, more clothes, more shoes, more time, more money! …More choice… a better home, a second home, a new car, to eat out more, or to spend more time with a loved one …Most people want more of something!

But, if you ask them what they are doing to learn how to get more? Other than waiting and hoping, most people are doing very little, if anything at all. They just want a different outcome to what they currently have.

So, what about you? What are you doing to get a different outcome?
In other words, what are you learning?
What books are you reading or listening to?
What shows are you watching?
What podcasts are you listening to?
What courses are you attending?
Who do you associate with who has already achieved what you want?

You earn what you currently earn based on what you currently know and do. If you want to earn more, then you have to learn something that you don’t currently know, and then do something that you don’t currently do, in order to get a different result!

I love the expression “Nothing changes… if nothing changes”
But, many people want and expect a ‘Change’ to happen in their life, but they expect that change to come from someone or something else.

If you want something different, don’t expect someone else to do it for you, It’s not their responsibility, it’s yours, it’s all down to you.

Many of the people who watch this are young, perhaps 20-30 years young, [lucky you!], and you’re optimistic about your future, [which is fantastic!]

You’re optimistic about succeeding and becoming wealthier. But if I were to dig a bit deeper, you don’t usually know how it’s going to happen. But, you’re optimistic none the less, that ‘something will just happen’. And I hope it does!

But, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, because the chances are ‘it won’t’. It won’t happen unless you know ‘what you want’ and start planning ‘what you need to do’, ‘what you need to learn', and ‘who you need to become’ in order to make your dream [whatever it is] a reality.

The problem is that most people invest more time and energy planning their summer holiday than they spend planning their life?

But by the very act of planning for success, you are setting yourself up as being someone who is more likely to succeed!

Some people will invest in an asset like property, or perhaps stocks and shares in the hope of a quick win and making some money. Some do, some don’t.

But what do you invest in yourself? Because ‘YOU’ are your greatest asset!

So, what do you invest in the hope of growing ‘YOU’? Because if you have aspirations to get more from life, you need to be prepared to invest the time and the money [when necessary], to learn more, and become more, and therefore get more as a result!

So, what skills don’t you have? And more importantly what are you going to do about it?

Instead of justifying why you can’t put hair up or do extensions, or to get better at colour, cutting or whatever skill you might be lacking in. Why don’t you enrol in an online class, buy a book or attend a live training. And then spend the time to practice practice, practice until you master it.

But PLEASE don’t make the mistake that hairdressers often do by thinking that you only need to invest in learning better technical and creative skills because as important as they are that’s only going to take you part of the way.

It is every bit as important to invest the time into developing your own mindset, your people skills and relationship building and communication skills, if you want to succeed.

So, do you really want more? And have you got the necessary motivation, and self discipline, to put in the time and effort to get more? Or is it all too hard?

So what are some practical next steps?

Well, can I suggest that you could brainstorm with your team these two questions.

The first one is; As a team, what areas do we need to improve our skills in?

The second one is; As individuals what areas do we underperform in?

I have an online course called Super Stylist it has helped many people all over the world become more successful in the hair and beauty industry and it can help you too.

We launch it 3 times a year and if you want to get on the wait list for the next launch, or are just curious about it and want to find out more visit growmysalonbusiness.com and register your interest to be notified when it’s next open for enrolment. I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

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Thanks for watching! Have a great week!

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