Increasing your revenue or spendable income is a common desire. Hey, I’m right there with you. I want to invest more into my business, personal growth, learning technologies, home improvements, retirement funds, college funds, bigger and better car and airplane, not to mention clothes, vacations, dinners, gifts, and charities. I could keep going but you know what I’m talking about.
Many of you know the usual advice on attracting more money into your life. Right now, I want to focus on the thoughts and actions that you want to avoid in your journey to more money.
- Stop looking at your past reality unless you have achieved financial abundance. If you have, then look at what was different during that time. What were you mentally focusing on? How did you treat your money? Were you doing something different strategically?
- Don’t beat yourself up about the current state of your financial affairs. Logically, how does that help you? You can’t get new ideas, solutions or more money when you’re down on yourself, your business or someone else that you think caused this misfortune. Get your head into creating what you want, not what is. [Read more...]
Telling people what you do is pretty easy if they are willing to intently listen for 5-10 minutes while you give them examples and analogies. Even straightforward professions and products require a bit of dialogue.
My mom and I, along with my boys, drove down to Southern California to visit Disneyland. I, therefore, had six hours in the passenger seat to try to figure out the best way to navigate the Alice-in-Wonderland-like mazes that define the innards of the park. I opened my iPad and researched show times in the park, how to avoid the ride lines and which Disneyland apps were going to rock my world.
I never thought much about my business model until almost twenty years into being an entrepreneur. I know: crazy, huh? My model was to get an idea, implement it, and keep doing it … if it was fun. But I didn't have criteria to gauge what was working and what wasn't.
Most entrepreneurs have an abundance of ideas but have a difficult time determining which one is worthy of their time. Who wants to pour a bunch of energy and money into a project, company or product that may give little return on investment? Nobody.
When your main focus is on increasing profits and expanding the reach of your marketing it's incredibly easy to be taken down a dozen rabbit holes each day. There are so many marketing, leadership and small business experts giving abundant strategies to grow your business that it creates an obstacle course of to-dos for the average entrepreneur.
Even if you only have a few customers or clients, you're sitting on a goldmine. You just have to mine it.
5 Keys to Pinpointing the Right Prescription for What Ails Your Business.
