Make Your Business Relevant
Yesterday, I covered 3 questions to ask if your business is struggling. This morning while I was doing some social media work, I ran across a great video by Michael Gerber, author of the E-Myth, that also provides great insight on how to ensure that your business stays relevant. The first point that Michael makes in the video is that your small business should be focused on growth. He states that if your business is not concerned with growing, then you should shut it down. In the talk, he also gives 2 essential ingredients for your business: Is it scalable? and Is it transformational? One way to kill a good
3 Questions To Ask If Your Business Is Struggling
Yesterday I shared my opinion about bailing out small businesses with government aid. Today I want to go through 3 questions that you should ask if your business is struggling. In reality we have all struggled or will struggle at some point in time in our lives for various reason. How we deal with the struggles will define how are lives turn out. When your business is struggling, it’s time to evaluate what you can do to get back on track. The following questions are questions I have had to ask myself to overcome obstacles in business and in some cases life. Question #1: What skills do I need? New
Why Your Small Business Does Not Need a Bailout
I have read a ton of articles recently on what the current administration is planning on doing to “bail out” small businesses which have been hit so hard in this recession. The question is, does your small business really need a bail out? To start, I consider myself to have fairly reasonable views politically. (Don’t we all?) With that being said, I may not agree with everything that President Obama does but I don’t think he is knowingly trying to create the 2nd coming of the Third Reich. In fact if any of us ever completely agreed with a president I don’t know what we would do. In the case
A Life Coach Builds Your Strongest Asset—You
No matter where you are on your journey to success, there is always the desire to attain more, have something different or achieve a deeper feeling to the meaning of your life. It is the nature of people to want to attain more or become more. Because of this, you will experience “growth opportunities” and what you choose to do with them can have a significant impact on your quality of life and overall sense of success and well-being. A common belief is that these growth opportunities must be met with hard work and a self-reliant attitude. You must struggle, sacrifice and generally pay a price for the happiness you
The Difference Between Roles and Purpose
An easy tell regarding how well we understand the idea of Soul Purpose is to look at the disconnect that we have between a role that someone plays in life (mom, dad, accountant, police office etc.) and how that relates to their actual purpose. Roles are not purpose and purpose is not one specific role. We see this mistake made constantly and it is most prominently on display in the world of professional sports. I started thinking about this when I heard that Chris Chelios (NHL superstar, future hall-of-famer) was going to play minor league hockey for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves at the tender age of 47. Chris played 28
Simple Tools For Identifying Your Talent
One of the reasons we don’t delve more into our own self discovery more is that we feel it may be too time consuming and difficult to really find the answers about ourselves that we are looking for. While I do think that this process is an ongoing process that does not happen over night, there are some things that you can today that are simple ways to indentify what you do best. Kolbe A Report If you haven’t done a Kolbe report, now is the time to get it done. It costs around $50 and tells you a lot about how you approach tasks. For instance if you are
The One Thing You Don’t Know About Yourself That Others Already Do
The underlying theme of this blog is based on the powerful concept of Soul Purpose. When it comes to understanding our strengths , it seems to be one area that we really suck at figuring out, until it’s too late. Knowing our strengths is the one thing that everyone else already has figured out about us long before we ever do. Maybe this just happened to me but I have a feeling that it has happened to most of us at some point. I also still hear a disturbingly high number of people who suggest to me that they don’t have any kind of special and unique talent. The reason
Do You Treat Your Clients Like They Are Shopping at Walmart?
Business Owners kill themselves trying to get new clients. In the process of getting new clients they forget how to treat their current ones. The best and cheapest way to market your business effectively is to treat your current clients great, not OK, great. People complain about bad customer service all the time. Walmart is a company that I commonly hear complaints about but people still shop there even though the best way to protest poor customer service is to stop shopping at the place that sucks at service. I actually think that sometimes the person at Walmart who is “helping” me actually hates me but Walmart can get away
Book Review: Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
I am personally fascinated and passionate about understanding what makes me, and other people, tick. Strengths Finder is another great tool to help you understand how you operate and what that may look like in your life. One of the things that trip us up in life is that we think we are born to do a certain role. We aren’t born to be an accountant, we aren’t born to be athletes and we aren’t born to be doctors. These are roles that allow us to express ourselves at the core of our being. The thing that we miss in all this? Understanding what’s at the core of our being.
