John Ellsworth and his staff at Success Strategies have helped us to better organize our business decisions through the development of an annual operating plan.
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
- Remember the song entitled “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”?
- Humorous? Yes, you couldn’t help but smile when you heard it!
- Wish you could do so? Yes.
- Realistic? Probably Not!
- Steve Chandler, in his book 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, states, “Don’t worry. Or rather, don’t just worry. Let worry change into action. When you find yourself worrying about something, ask yourself the action question, ‘What can I do about this right now?’ And then do something. Anything. Any small thing.”
- Most of us worry about lots of things. Why? We think it will get better if we do. WRONG!!!!!!
- Chandler also says, “But when we worry, we don’t worry a thing to death, we worry it to life. Our worrying makes the problem grow. And most of the time, we worry it into a grotesque kind of life, a kind of Frankenstein’s monster that frightens us beyond all reason.”
- He suggests we take four problems – 5 minutes each – No more than 20 minutes! Not too much time to commit! I discussed the following four problems with a client recently:
* Upcoming Bank Meeting -
- How could I better prepare for Friday morning?
- What will she want to review/discuss?
* Deadline Environmental Report –
- What must be reported/measured?
- Did I need help? If so, from whom?
* Stack of Bills Facing Me –
- Open and sort them.
- Pay whom and by when?
- Set a day(s) to do so…
* Plans for my son at College –
- What do I want for him?
- What does he potentially want?
- Set date to outline plans.
- Set date to discuss this with his son, Bobby.
And it only took 20 minutes – WOW!
* Fear cannot coexist with Action!
* If you’re worried, take some Action Steps.
* Ask yourself, “What small steps can I take NOW?” I think you’ll be glad you did!
read comments (0)
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
Previously, I talked about how to come up with ideas to improve your operation and implement positive change. “The Best way to manage change successfully is to create it.” Peter Drucker in his book, The Daily Drucker, discusses how to be a Change Leader! “One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it. In a period of upheavals, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. To be sure, it is painful and risky, and above all it requires a great deal of very hard work.”
For more great in-depth advice, read our newsletter, The Business Confidence Maximizer!
You’ve probably heard about the Harvard Business School study regarding the value of having clearly defined goals and a written plan designed to achieve them. 3% of the study’s respondents had a “written, specific plan” for what they wanted to achieve. 10% of them had a “general set of goals” with no definite plan. 60% of those surveyed had only “survival goals” that would allow them to live day to day. The final 27% had “no goals”. When the study was completed 20 years later, people in the 3% group with definite written goals had out produced the 10% group by over ten times. In fact, this 3% group had amassed greater wealth in those 20 years than the entire other 97% of those surveyed!
For more great in-depth advice, read our newsletter, The Business Confidence Maximizer!
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
I was talking to an executive sitting next to me on a flight from Chicago two weeks ago. As we discussed our business prospects for next year, he sounded absolutely depressed. Given what’s going on in the US economy right now, I can understand why you might be a bit worried. The stock market is down, financing is difficult to locate at present and the big “R word,” recession, is in the air.