Energize Your Business with Transformational Planning
Friday
Feb 12, 2010
Are you working working so hard in your business you don’t have time to make more money? Many independent professionals and small business owners get so busy working they don’t take the strategic action that will increase their sales and profits. And they burn themselves out because they believe they have to work harder to make more money. So instead of generating more money, they create a lot of hard work with not enough to show for it.
Growing your business doesn’t have to be hard. But unless you have a clear vision of what you really want, how to get there effectively and the energy and confidence to follow through, you’re going to get bogged down. You’re going to waste energy and time and end up with disappointing results.
So how do you get a clear vision, an effective plan and the energy to reach your financial targets? You have to transform your whole mindset. You have to free your talents and abilities, engage your passion and commitment and energize your actions by letting go of your limiting beliefs so you put your strengths to work.
Transformational business planning allows you to match your true vision with a powerful action plan and the ongoing energy and confidence to make it all happen. It combines personal transformation with nitty gritty business tools and strategies to generate a powerful path to reach your business goals.
In the next series of blog posts I’ll go into more detail about how that works in real life.
Stay Fresh, Stay Alive, Stay Open to Greater Possibilities
Tuesday
Jan 19, 2010
A business is often only as successful and innovative as it’s owner’s awareness allows it to be. Even most ‘successful’ businesses are only getting a small fraction of their potential sales and profits. That’s because the owners and managers are not clearly seeing or using optimum strategies and they’re not functioning at peak performance.
They’re often hunkered down, trying to meet the next payroll and waiting for the recession to be over. They don’t have a lively awareness of possibilities. They don’t look at the big picture and see the leveraged strategies that would probably take no more money and effort than they are already putting in.
Top business experts all agree that along with the right strategy you have to you have the right mental attitude. You have to not be affected by the limitations and negativity around you. Or the temporary set backs and aggravations of being in business.
If you want to generate a life and business that really expresses who you are and nurtures the life you love to live, you have to expand past the fear and stuckness that so many people are living. You have to stay fresh and alive.
Jay Abraham is a legend in business consulting. He has helped hundreds of businesses small and large optimize their marketing and make millions of dollars. He has a knack for seeing strategies that can dramatically increase sales and profits. That kind of insight is available to you if you expand your thinking and function from outside the limits most businesses are functioning from.
Expand past the day to day actions of your business and start playing on a much bigger playing ground. Your energy has to be large. You have to receive and be willing to implement much larger possibilities.
Richard Branson for example was brought up by parents who didn’t judge him. They fully supported him. He had a lively curiosity and dynamism that didn’t get squelched. He naturally gathered the resources and people that could make his dreams come true.
He saw the need for a student newspaper. So he started one. Then he saw a better way to provide the new rock and roll music young people in Britain were craving. He started a record store that was a place where kids could hang out and listen to the records they couldn’t find elsewhere.
Richard partnered with someone who knew who the up and coming bands were. His new company Virgin Records caught the huge tidal wave of rock music as it swept through the UK, the US and the rest of the world.
He found a system that worked and he multiplied it. And then he got out at just the right time before the record industry crashed. Fortunately Sir Richard had learned to diversify and had other businesses to keep building his brand of serving people’s needs better.
Opportunities abound. You can find the right strategies that will optimize your business. You may not build a multi- billion dollar business like Virgin, but you can generate your own entrepreneurial success if you’re willing to be and do what it takes. Stay fresh, stay alive, stay open to greater possibilities!
Follow-up For Success
Wednesday
Jan 6, 2010
A great post about the value of follow up as well as good business planning by Martin Zwelling at Start Up Professionals Musings. He talks about how without follow-up a startup never starts. Definitely. Good follow-up goes hand in hand with good planning. And quite often in order to upgrade their follow-up skills, I find entrepreneurs need to change their mindset and let go of whatever beliefs are getting in their way.
Usually people have to change inside before they change their life or business. Lets hope this year the demands of this recession make people step up their game. We need a lot more successful entrepreneurs to improve our economy in 2010. Are you great at following up? If not, how would you have to change for you to be great at follow-up?
What Matters Now – Ease in Action
Tuesday
Dec 15, 2009
“What Matters Now” is a free ebook Seth Godin is offering everyone to get ready for the new decade. It features 70 big thinkers on what’s important to think about now. It’s a great mind jogger to get you out of the box. Go ahead and download it. Just skim through it and see what catches your eye. You don’t have to read the whole thing. There are topic headings you can zoom in on. Find what matters to you.
What caught my eye was “Ease” by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author oof the best selling book Eat, Pray, Love. She makes a good point about taking time out to just relax and be. Great point, I thoroughly agree. And what matters to me now is also to have ease in action.
Ease in action is when you bring that peace and space and sense of yourself into your actions. When you know how to do it right, it doesn’t take away from your focus and effectiveness. In fact, having a greater sense of space and calm in the midst of dynamic activity makes you even more effective. Especially with the overwhelm of too much information and too much ‘connectedness’.
If you want to learn more about having more peace and sense of yourself in the buzz of your life, keep checking in with my blog. Better yet sign up for updates in the box at the upper right hand of this page.