January 2012

Episode 113 – One Trick To Control The Pandemonium, Chaos & Commotion In Your Business Life

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Do you look like this in your business?

“Man, you’re like a kitten. You chase every ball of yarn that enters the room,” I told this business owner. He’s one of a long line of business owners who’ve heard me say that. I doubt he’ll be the last.

Does that describe how you live? Boy, I hope not. But in the past three plus decades I’ve encountered many business owners and leaders whose lives were characterized by pandemonium, chaos and constant movement. Commotion becomes a habit for some business owners.

Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” It’s a biblical principle, but it has broad – secular – application. We build the life we want.

If your business is characterized by commotion, then you’ve behaved in ways to make it so. If you don’t want commotion to be the mantra of your business life, then change it. Behave differently.

But how?

There’s one thing you must do before any meaningful change can occur. Just one thing. I’ll warn you – it may not be easy for you. Many people find it tremendously difficult. Even so, dwell on this one thing. Embrace it. Most importantly, do it!

Hey, will you do me a favor? Leave me some feedback over at iTunes. I’d greatly appreciate it. In fact, it’d make my weekend!

Have a great weekend,
* Photo courtesy of MinkBlue

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4 Ways To Get Back On Your Feet After Being Kicked In The Gut

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Here are four things to help you get up after you’ve been knocked down and dragged out:

1. Stop feeling sorry for yourself
2. Decide your first step (and your second)
3. Pay attention
4. Make resilience your personal trademark

Watch the video and I’ll explain. Let me know if these help you. Shoot me a message on Twitter.

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How I Lost $50,900 (and my pride), But Kept My Wife

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Allow me to tell two stories of my own stupidity and foolishness. Both cost me a lot of money, but they may have cost me more in embarrassment and vulnerability. I certainly lost some pride over the deals. Thankfully, my wife stood by me – all without scolding me about how stupid or crazy I was.

As my kids were growing up I constantly preached to them about making mistakes. I knew they’d make mistakes, all kids do. My sermon to them was always the same, “Don’t make a mistake from which you can never recover.”

While these two stories had a high cost, thankfully…they were mistakes from which I could and did recover. I hope you can learn to be smarter by avoiding the mistakes I made.

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Is Getting Customers The Number One Problem In Your Business?

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Just about every business I’ve ever helped had a foundational problem associated with getting new customers. We all need and want more leads. More is always better.

Lead generation is a top of the sales funnel problem. There is almost always another problem at the bottom of the funnel, too. Maybe you’ve not considered this problem as seriously as you should.

 

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Episode 112 – Success Isn’t Binary Or Digital (It’s Not Even Numerical)

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Success Isn't Binary

Be a millionaire. What? You’re not already a millionaire? Loser.

All the cool kids are millionaires. They’ve had a killer IPO or acquisition. Banking millions.

That’s true success, achievement and mastery. If you’ve not yet pulled that off, then you’ve got a lot of work to do. Catch up. Get with the program.

Or not.

Truth is, most of us can live the life of our dreams (not the wildest variety perhaps, but still dreams) for $150,000 a year or less. Few of us will achieve millionaire status defined by having a net worth of $1M. Fewer still among us will achieve millionaire status by having liquid assets in excess of $1M. But the world is full of stories that compel us to think everybody is more successful than we are. The world loves to help us all feel like losers.

Suddenly, gratitude, thanksgiving and simply feeling good about our life are out the window. All because we’re drawn to compare ourselves to those at the top of the success pyramid. They have the success we want. They have the good life. By comparison, we’re a failure. We’re poor.

Hog wash! People with a more crude vocabulary will use two different words to describe it.

Today is my 34th wedding anniversary. Perhaps that has caused sober reflection on my life and driven me to a state of higher than normal (for me) gratitude. I hope you can learn something from it. I’m still learning.

 

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