Collision Repair Magazine 16#2

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MANAGEMENT

instead, build amazing businesses. During my company’s (Elite Body Shop Solutions) business dealings and throughout the process of writing the new book, The Secrets of America’s Greatest Body Shops, I have been blessed to meet some incredible and positive-thinking entrepreneurs. They have figured out how to overcome negative thinking and focus their energies on the things that matter. One may easily conclude that the people operating these super-successful shops have been given an unfair advantage. This is far from the truth! The successful people in the collision repair industry have faced many struggles to get where they are today. What sets them apart is how they view those challenges.

Unsuccessful people blame others for their problems. Successful people collaborate to find solutions and common ground.

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Honour the Struggle Life gives us tremendous blessings every day that we refer to as “problems.” How we acknowledge them makes a world of difference to our ability to reach success at the highest levels. The unsuccessful person encounters a problem, and says, “Well I won’t try that again!” The successful one says, “What can I learn from this to do better next time?” Exposing problems and system failures


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