Who are your Cheerleaders?

Cheerleaders are those who rally around you to support you, challenge you and push you to do more, be more, go further than ever before. You’ll find Cheerleaders in your family, friends and successful business people who, themselves are doing things. Being so far away from home I found that in my support team of Dan Khan, David Beard, Joseph Stuart and Samantha Gadd.

Lighting Lab is a rollercoaster of emotions, choices and path ways. Just as the New Zealand weather can’t make up its mind, so is the life of an entrepreneur; in a fast-tracked business acceleration programme such as Lightning Lab. Claudia Batten calls this the squiggly line.

This is when you want to surround yourself with people who just get it and get you. They know their advice is appreciated and every persons journey is unique to them. They will share what worked for them and what didn’t in hope you can apply some of these learnings. They’ll also look at it from a different perspective, from their background, experience and industry and provide some unique insights; perhaps you hadn’t considered before. But they aren’t offended if you don’t take on their suggestions. To them its not an ego-thing. They want the best for you. And they appreciate it when you take on what they said, filter it through what you want and respectively thank them for their advice and explain how you’ve chosen to progress and why.

At the end of the day, these relationships are valuable. They’ll last a life-time. You may not touch base weekly or monthly. But, you’ll think of each other and may make timely introductions or forward on a blog post or some key industry insights.

Everyone needs to be surrounded by cheerleaders who get them, get their business and the journey you’re on.