5 important habits for the car dealership owner to get your business to the top.

     Welcome reader, This week, we are going to look at the issue of habits. There are important habits for the car dealership owner to get his business to the top and I shall look at 5 of them.
     Having good habits is a must for car dealership business success. It is clear that the only difference between successful car dealership businesses and unsuccessful ones lies in the differences of their habits. Therefore it is a must to create and have good habits.
     People usually become slaves to their habits. Bad habits such as procastinating, lying, improper management of time etc.How do we change these habits? I think only a habit can subdue another habit. Therefore, the only way to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. Here are 5 habits you can use to replace your old bad habits.
    
     1:- SINCERITY:- As a car dealership business owner, there are a lot of things you need to be sincere about. You need to be sincere about which habits you need to change. you even need to be sincere about your intention and reasons for needing the change of habits. And you also need to be sincere in your implementation of the changes. I've mentioned sincerity in relation to habits only, because it is the topic we are looking at.
    
     2:- INCREASING SELF VALUE:- This is what psychologists and business experts use the word 'personal development' to refer to in relation to development of self-awareness, talents and identity. This is often for the purpose of progressing towards achieving some overall life goal. A successful, ambitious car dealership owner may develop himself further in order to advance some of his business goals. The importance of self development rests simply on the fact that people are capable of being more, doing more and having more whenever they improve themselves. Greater personal health, stability and ability can lead to better opportunities and to an increased state of happiness and satisfaction with life.
    
     3:- MANAGE YOUR TIME:- Time management is another positive habit that is a must for success in our car dealership businesses. We have so many obligations and commitments outside our business, eg, family activities. Sometimes, they make us overlook our business commitments without noticing it. Therefore, it is important to draft a daily time allocation schedule for your business and your personal life. Know that income producing activities are tasks that generate money into your business.
    
     4:- COMMUNICATE:- By saying communicate, I mean you should interact. Interaction in car dealership business puts an end to confusion. To enjoy consistent progress in your car dealership business, there should be a spirit of communication in the system. Many start-ups fail because of tiny communication mistakes that could have been easily handled by the team. This is not uncommon in the car dealership business world. Some of the top companies out there are there because they have very great interaction systems.
    
      5:- ALWAYS TAKE ACTION:- I have left action taking for last because, taking daily action is the most important habit a car dealership owner can create and develop. Having the positive habit of taking daily action is the only bridge between our inner world and our outer world. Our outer world is simply the results of what we have in our inner world expressed outwardly. Our inner world consists of our thoughts and feelings that create our goals and dreams. Action is the bridge between the goals of our inner world and the results of our outer world. It is a fact that the habit of daily action is the only factor that determines the value of our car dealership business. You may be one of the smartest, most intelligent or most educated people in the world, if you do not have the habit of daily action that puts what you learn and what you know into action, nothing is going to happen in your car dealership business. Success in any area of life is all about habits. Develop these habits today!
     There you have them, my own 5 important habits for the car dealership owner to get his business to the top. Please feel free to add your comments and habits you think should be included.  

Own your car in 2 years----3 (tips).

   Own your car in 2 years series continues again this week as promised. Last week we took the first tip/strategy which says that you should find your motivation and really decide. If you were with me last week and you read that post, I believe you would have gotten motivated and really decided because eventhough I did not treat the topic of motivation and decision exhaustively (those are full topics of discussion each on their own and will have to wait till another day.)  I gave us an insight into it and a few examples of how you can go about getting motivated and really deciding.
    If you have really read that post and practiced the tips/strategies I gave in it, I believe you are now supercharged and ready to go and you are also eager to learn what the next tip/strategy is. I will not disappoint you because that is the essence of this blog in the first place, to give you all the tips/strategies that make it possible. Before I give you the next tip/strategy, I will advice that you go back to our first one and re read it to refresh your memory and to supercharge and motivate you as being successful requires that you really understand and implement all the tips and strategies I shall be giving you.
    I am saying all these because car ownership and a successful commercial transport business is not magic or some get rich quick scheme(If that is what you want, this blog and articles are not for you). It is a business that requires proper planning, perseverance, patience, diligence and a lot of hard work. If you can persevere and work hard in implementing all(and not some) of the tips and strategies I am sharing with you, then I promise you that you shall come out tops, you will build that commercial transport business and watch it grow beyond your wildest imaginations.
    We should now take the next tip/strategy, so our own your car in 2 years tip number two is;

                                   KNOW THYSELF AND KNOW THY CAUSE.

     Yes! that is exactly what I mean, know yourself in relation to cars. What type of cars appeal to you, what cars are you in love with, what is your risk tolerance level, what can you afford in terms of finance for installmental payments and so on.
     Knowing yourself in relation to cars helps your decision of what car you want to own. Some people like big cars, some like small compact ones, some people like fast cars with very big engine capacity while some do not mind speed and engine capacity, some people like cars with a lot of customizations while I will not even advise that for somebody that wants a car for commercial transport even if that is what he likes. I am saying this because sometimes the issue of knowing yourself goes beyond what you like to what you need. A person with a family of 9 members will be better off with a space wagon than a 406 saloon car. A person that cannot conveniently change gears will be better off with an automatic car than a manual one and so on.
     So it is really important that you seat down and think through all the factors that will let you know yourself best in relation to your car.
     The next thing is that you should now know what is your cause for wanting to own a car, do you want a car for commercial transport in which case I do not think you will consider owning a Toyota Camry 2013. Do you want to use your car for private purposes in which case I know you will hardly consider a Toyota Hiace bus. Do you want to give your car to a commercial driver to work with, you will need to sit him down
and seek his opinion concernig which car he wants you people to buy.
     I have listed these cases just to give you an idea of how the consideration of the cause of your wanting to own a car can affect the choice you will have to make because for every cause there is an effect.
     Lastly, I now believe that you understand that knowing thyself and thy cause cannot be overstressed when it comes to the issue of car ownership. Understanding your personality and other personal attributes goes a long way in making you go for a car that you know you can persevere for and see the installmental payments through.
     I shall stop here until next week when I shall come your way with another own your car in 2 years tip/strategy. See you then.