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Radical Income Growth Strategy

Do you worry about how to make more money?

How much more?

What are you actually thinking about?

How much would make you happy?

Fulfilled…

Satisfied even…

 

Have you ever considered what would cause a breakthrough in how much you earn?

Watch this video…

Filed Under: Business Coaching, Business Strategy, Goal Setting, strategic planning, Time management Tagged With: business coaching, business growth, business strategy, strategic planning, Time management

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10 Business Strategy Questions To Figure Out Your Company’s Future…

What’s the fastest way to shift your thinking?

Ask the right questions.

What’s the surest way to change your future?

Same answer…

Ask the right questions…

Ask the right questions and you can change anything.  The trick then, is to ask the right questions.  (And yes, you do have to answer them.)

So what are the right questions? In this video I bring up 10 of them.  Are these the only 10 questions, or even the most important 10 questions?  Of course not, but they’re 10 good ones to help chart the future of your business and to make sure you are taking a direction that can get you there.

Watch the video and leave  your comments below.

 

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Decision making, Goal Setting, marketing, Mindset, strategic planning

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Keys to Business Failure Part 2

Last week I was in NYC doing a strategy session with one of my coaching clients. We laid out the exact steps they’re going to follow for the coming year to break through to the next level – in other words really generate some serious revenue.

Nothing weird about that of course because that’s what most of my clients want…

Except they kept bringing up the issue of wanting to make sure it all works out for them.  They don’t want to take on any more risk….

In other words, they want to guarantee success.

And it was perfect timing for that conversation because I’ve been working on this video series.

Watch this 10 minute video to make sure you avoid the things which guarantee failure…

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Goal Setting, leadership, marketing, Mindset, pricing, strategic planning Tagged With: marketing, pricing, resells, strategy, upsells

By pl 23 Comments

Strategic Planning for Purpose and Passion

Some people think of this as the holiday season…

Others also think of it as the “planning season.” The time of year when you start to figure out how you’d like the next year to go…

What you’re going to achieve…

What programs and practices you’re going to kick off…

If this sounds like fun to you, I’d like to offer a little spin in keeping with this very important idea:

Make sure that all – or at any rate, most – of your precious time should be spent in service of things which light up your life.

If you plan from that perspective, no matter what you chose to do, things could turn out…

Simply amazing.

So watch the video. It’s a short 4’53”…

And please leave your comments below for others to see.

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Goal Setting, leadership, Mindset, strategic planning Tagged With: business strategy, Mindset, strategic planning

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Mindfulness in Simple Action

Earlier this week I spoke to a breakfast group and asked what they did while driving to the meeting that morning.

Nothing surprising, people said they ate, listened to music, talk radio and motivational “tapes,” some sang, talked on their cell phones, some thought about problems, one rehearsed a speech, a salesman worried about a client, they checked email, they texted, one sexted, one woman put on lipstick, several drank coffee, and a man planned dinner. Some of them were doing a few of these things at once.

But not one of them just drove.

You see, driving is one of these activities we can do without paying the
slightest attention, despite the fact that it’s actually quite complicated. And it turns out that driving isn’t the only thing we do without paying attention. When you stop to think about it, there is very little besides video games, golf, and television that we actually give our full 100% attention.

Much of our life is done on semi-automatic, and sometimes – like driving – full-bore-auto. And it’s not just one thing that’s on auto-pilot, but often a whole bunch of things going on at the same time and none getting anywhere near our full attention, our minds flipping and switching and jumping from one thing to the next to the next.

Of course, what you end up with is sub-par performance because nothing is getting our very best, difficulty focusing (what a surprise), a lack of creativity (creativity definitely requires focus and you’re out of practice), procrastination (because when you’re doing 7 things at once who wants to do anything else), fuzzy thinking (again, no surprise), no spontaneity (we’re never really present), and more kinds of stress you can possibly imagine.

So I was driving to the talk on mindfulness, and practicing JUST DRIVING…

“Feel the foot on the gas and the hands on the steering wheel…”

And then I’d jump to thinking about what I was going to say. And then I’d remember to JUST DRIVE.

“Push the turn signal control down, turn the steering wheel slightly and sense the car moving into the left lane…”

And what was I going to say? Oh right – JUST DRIVE…

And so on. Then I started breathing into the driving. That made it easier. My focus became sharper.

When you ease into it, when you breath into it, everything starts to feel better. The mind chatter settles down almost instantly and your senses become sharper. Whatever else there was a moment ago falls away. Breathing is really key to mindfulness practice.

Try this:

Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Pay attention to the air flowing in through your nose and down your windpipe and into to your lungs. Hold the breath for a second and then slowly let it out, again feeling to the air as it leaves your deflating lungs, flows up your windpipe and out of your mouth. This is what yoga people call
“watching your breath.” Do that a few times. If you’re still with me, count from one to ten along with your breathing.

Go ahead. Just stop reading . Breath and count. After you’ve done it for a while come back to me.

How was it?

Most people get lost somewhere between 2 and 10. Their mind wanders and starts thinking about… Something.  Maybe you remembered what you were doing, came back and kept counting. And then lost it again. And then kept counting. And so on.

No matter how it went, if you did it at all, you did a great job.

You might try this little process again at different times throughout the day. You’ll find it refreshing and energizing. And yes, you’ll begin to get bits of everything I promised above. This really works.

One more thing…

Mindfulness is a funny word; it almost sounds like the opposite of what we mean.

Just an hour ago I was picking up a rental car at MCO. Alamo has an interesting system they let drivers pick out the car they want. So I jumped in the Jeep, didn’t like the seat adjustments, and the Kia felt like it was made of cheap plastic, so I ended up with a nice Dodge SUV something.  I moved my luggage in and out of one car and then the other. Got in the winner car, looked up the hotel address, checked the Nav, which was on the blink, finally figured out where I was going, acclimated to the chosen car, adjusted the mirrors, adjusted the seat… My mind was so full with the details of choice, hopping from one car to the next, driving at night in a strange city, the semi-broken navigation on my phone, so filled up with stuff, that I didn’t realize until 24 miles later that I’d foolishly left my trademark blue blazer in one of the cars. Called lost and found. Called the garage itself. No Blazer. No Joy. Complete failure for paying attention to the present moment.

Which brings me back to the mindfulness idea…

Most of us pass our lives paying very little attention to the present moment because our minds are so full with all the stuff we’re doing. Mindfulness is the practice of becoming aware by letting go of all the stuff and focusing on the one single thing we chose to do whether it’s driving while we’re driving, or walking while we’re walking, doing the dishes while we’re doing the dishes, or counting while we’re counting.

Over the next few weeks I’ll give you some other easy exercises to draw you into the present moment.

I’ve been working with a few of my business coaching clients on mindfulness practice as was a way of deepening concentration, sharpening focus and stimulating creativity. As if those things weren’t enough, it instantly floods you with energy (without caffeine) and it just plain feels good.

So go count from one to ten again, and when you’re done, leave me your comments and tell me what’s happening.

Filed Under: Beliefs, Mindset, strategic planning Tagged With: meditation, Mindfulness

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