Archive for June 11th, 2007
Small Business Insight is a newsletter targeted toward – what else – small businesses. It is compiled by a group of business coaches from an organization called Team Nimbus. Their passion is “discovering your unique talents and gifts, and developing systems around the best of who you are.”
They always have great advice in their articles. Below are a few short snippets from this month’s issue:
Do you know the number one thing that STOPS small business owners from having the success they want? It is quite simple actually. The #1 reason small business owners do not have the success they want is that they do not have an adequate number of qualified people to ask for the business. Period.
Are you growing at the rate you want to grow your business? Most small business owners, even moderately successful ones, too often say No. Why? I believe it is because most of us were taught to play by too many irrelevant big business rules and have forgotten this one simple concept: (Click here to find the concept in the article titled, “Good profit over bad”)
Happy reading!
June 11 2007 | Marketing | No Comments »
A lot of smart bloggers like Jonathan and Nate have been talking about goals and making them public on their blog.
If you’re like me, you may have so many goals that trying to figure out which one to pursue first can become crippling to the point of halting progress. With about 3 major goals looming, I had been doing a fantastic job of not making real progress on any of them because I hadn’t clarified to myself which one was most important.
In his book The On-Purpose Person: Making Your Life Make Sense : A Modern Parable
, Kevin McCarthy maps out a smart, yet incredibly simple solution to prioritizing goals called the draw system. This is a game kind of like Famousr, but for your goals.
The object is to first list out your top ten goals in various categories such as work, personal, fun, etc all of the areas needed to create a balanced life. Your goals from different categories will not be going head to head in a challenge for which is most important, but the top ten items within each main category will.
With the draw system, each goal faces off against one other goal in a draw. The winners move on to the next round until one final goal is victorious. This becomes your next goal to work toward.
Wasting time trying to make a decision about which goal to direct your energies toward is draining and unproductive. I know this because I just spent about 2 months in limbo trying to figure out which direction to take next. I’m happy to say that I have made a decision about which short term personal goal to focus on next and will be moving to a new home by the end of the summer.
June 11 2007 | General Business Issues | 3 Comments »
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June 11 2007 | General Business Issues and Q and A | 7 Comments »
Welcome to the beginning of another week! I hope that you had a great weekend. Be sure you check out the guest post by Jennifer Rai. If you want to be a guest poster, please click on the button at the top of the second column and let us know.
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Wow, that’s strong. As we all know, there’s more to life than work. However, at CBG, we focus more on the work side. With that in mind, are you living your professional dreams? Are you doing what you enjoy? Why not? What’s holding you back? Life is too short to be working in something that you don’t enjoy, to be showing up for work everyday wishing for more. Make sure that you have life in your years not simply years in your life. At 40, I’m finding the years fly too fast.
June 11 2007 | Daily Quote | No Comments »
