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Give up or Keep Going?

Apr22

Give up or Keep Going?

How to Face the Toughest Decision of All

How does one know whether to give up or keep going in business? The way for me to tell whether something was working for me was to look to see if things were flowing well in the business. Am I making money? Are people approaching me for my services by responding to my marketing? When they make appointments do they turn up? Are my prices being accepted by my customers, clients or students? Do the representatives of my company work with me or against me? Am I enjoying what I am doing?

The answers to these questions and others like them will determine whether or not to keep going with the venture you are trying to develop. It is always difficult to give up on something that just isn’t working, especially if you have put your heart and soul into trying to make it work. Don’t fret, however, because you will have learned something from the exercise. As long as you come away wiser, then it has been a worthwhile exercise to go through. Your project will not have been a failure if you have learned enough from it to be able to do a better job the next time you have a go.

Imprinting a Success Mentality

Apr21

Imprinting a Success Mentality

Imprinting a Success Mentality

There is a knack to being in the right place at the right time in business. One of the ways you can increase your chances of having life unfold the way you would like it to is to repeat affirmations to yourself so that you can expand your mind’s way of thinking about the opportunity at hand at a sub-conscious level. Some of my favourite affirmations were taught to me by Stuart Wilde, and they are ‘I am always in the right place at the right time’. ‘All my needs are constantly met’. ‘I am blessed with unlimited abundance in love, money, friendships, opportunity and talent’. ‘It is safe to trust the process of life,’ ‘I am guided and protected’. And last but not least ‘Opportunity finds me’.

Once you begin saying these or similar affirmations to yourself, and you have gathered a bit of experience behind you, you will find that you begin to get into ‘the Zone’ in business. That’s when things will begin to fall into place for you in all that you do. Remember to train yourself to believe that you don’t have to be constantly involved in activity for your business to succeed. If you can make each action you take become effective, then you won’t need to do so much work in order to achieve the same result. People who are constantly running around trying to get everything done are taking on too much or not doing things effectively. The truly successful people make running a business look easy – because it doesn’t have to be difficult. It’s only when your belief system says that massive amounts of activity are needed for you to grant yourself the right to make lots of money that running a business becomes difficult. If you choose the right product or service, you don’t really have to work very much at all in order to make money. Train yourself out of thinking that success has to be difficult, because it doesn’t. Work with the subconscious mind by repeating affirmations in order to cancel out some of your old ways of thinking, and watch as the dollars come to you easily and effortlessly.

Build on Strength

Apr20

Build on Strength

Build on Strength

Once you have started the ball rolling with your new business venture it is important that you grow your business steadily over a period of time. Don’t go rushing to make everything happen at once. Many businesses have fallen over in their first six months because the person trying to develop theirs did not do their homework or tried to make their business expand way, way too quickly. Once you have had some success, allow a period of consolidation to occur before moving ahead into the next stage of development. Within yourself you will need to integrate what you have learned over the last few weeks or months, so don’t go rushing into the next stage of growth too quickly.

If you chart the growth of your business using statistics, it will become obvious when it is time to push to the next stage in your business. If you need to take on staff in order to handle the extra work, always employ them in a casual capacity or as a contractor, never as an employee. They will be too difficult to get rid of if they prove to be unsuitable to the position you have given them if they are an employee. Maintain control at all times by not having people employed in full-time positions for you. Hire contractors rather than employees, or use work-hire agreements. You’ll avoid alot of hidden traps by doing this.