Don't bail him out. Be honest with him, and yourself. Refer him to someone who can help him if necessary. Try this: "Joe, although I appreciate your business, in my opinion my company is not serving you in manner you require, and this is not a good fit for both of us. With your permission, I am going to refer you to a company that I believe will be a much better match for your needs."

You should have a list of at least 100 people of every profession to whom you refer business and expect them to return favor. You haven't done that? Refer Joe to an organizational, or business coach. Refer him to a competitor. Let them have him. You get rid of him and saddle them at same time! Seriously though, you need to keep your priorities in line and in focus. Customers like Joe, no matter how well they pay, are seldom profitable when you factor in time, actual costs and energy consumed.

Focus on customers or clients you want to attract, and make sure you have room in your business when they do show up. They always do.

Your Coach and online friend,

Miami

Miami Phillips Helping others find their path - and stay on it. www.creativemasterminds.com

Quotation of Week Be careful environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone

Eat Only from True Hunger

Our physical body has biological needs that food can satisfy. Our emotional and spiritual bodies have emotional and spiritual needs that food can never gratify. When choosing what to eat, it's helpful to be able to distinguish difference between true hunger (physical need) and "false" hunger (emotional and spiritual need).

When you learn to discern emotional and spiritual hunger (emptiness) from physical hunger, you can then adopt attitude and actions to attract right people and activities that will truly fill hole of soul emptiness.

Chew Life Well before Swallowing

An astute Eastern adage suggests: "Chew your liquid and drink your food." The guidance is to chew your beverages so that your liquids mix well with saliva and, therefore, are predigested by digestive enzymes in your saliva before you swallow. In same manner, chew your solid food until it breaks down into a consistency that it can be drunk as a liquid. This chewing mixes your food with same helpful saliva pre-digestive juices-and saves your stomach chore of breaking down chunks of food.

Chewing your liquid and food well leads to good digestion by making your body's job easier. The less energy body needs to expend to digest, absorb and utilize your food and liquids, more energy you have available to create, play and enjoy life!

In same manner, recommendation is to chew or contemplate well any experience or information before you swallow or believe it-that is, take it in as part of you. With this approach you're intuitively prescreening ideas, interactions and events before you allow them to become part of your belief system-and, therefore, part of your personal reality!

Yummy in Your Tummy

Only eat foods and hang with people and pursuits that excite you!

The insightful Japanese observe, "Digestion begins with eyes." When a meal is attractively presented in a way that makes us excited to eat it, energy activated by excitement will actually help body to digest meal more efficiently. In same respect, when you choose kinds of foods that excite you, you'll digest and absorb these foods more easily. Yummy looking and tasting meals yield a net increase of energy for you.

The same principle applies to your choice of people, career and life ventures. The more exhilarating your friends and endeavors, more flowing and full-filling your relationships and pursuits will be. Joy in, joy out! It's Your Party!

You may not be experiencing life as a party. Perhaps because you're not living your own life in your own way, according to your unique nature and spirit.

Whether you're aware of this truth or not, life is your show. It's your body and your dream-to do with as you choose. You have a right to manage who, what, where and how your energy field is entered and affected. Steer clear of any person or philosophy that does not honor that right. You'll be healthier and happier for it.

If you don't steward your energy well, what will you have available to share with others?

Drink in nourishment of each moment! It's your party!

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