Where is your business within the business cycle?Written by Maria Marsala, Business Growth Specialist
What's saying, something like... you can't get where you want to go if you don't know where you're going. Every business starts and ends somewhere. First it's an idea and it may stay at this place for a short time or many years. Then it develops into a start-up that takes where you build critical strong business foundation.If you are stuck or on a downward spiral then it's time to re-evaluating where you are and where you expect to be in 1, 3, 5, and 10 years. If you want to move ahead quicker, take a look at what it is you need to get "there". Use list below to help you realign yourself and get help you need to get you to next level and beyond. It's An Idea -- I'm ready to make commitment. -- Want to reduce "overwhelmed" into making an initial plan. -- Find an "ideal" business I'm passionate about. -- Develop a business vision. -- Ready to catapult your hobby into a business. -- Create a personal budget, reducing expenses, and start saving money for your business. -- Work on your personal side to make time necessary to start your business. Let's Get It Going - Start-up -- Making a plan to transition to "business owner". -- Learn how to accomplish what you want to accomplish. -- Read books that are known to help my clients. -- Get "buy-in" from your family. -- Start process of transitioning between executive and business owner. -- Hire a mentor coach. -- Who can you partner with?
| | Wake Up! -- You Are Asleep!Written by Miami Phillips
WEEKLY WISDOM NEWSLETTER Wake Up! -- You Are Asleep! November 6, 2003 I'd like to welcome our new subscribers! If you've been forwarded this article and would like to subscribe.... click here.I am working on assembling a 3-month Group Coaching program for those who have requested it. I am doing my best to make it affordable, and accessible for as many as possible. If you are interested in learning more about this, please drop me an email. Now for this week's article... What do you do when you get up in morning? Is it same thing every day?Collectively, we as a people are zombies. We live our lives unconsciously most of time, doing what we do out of habit or by controlled reflex from historical data in our memory banks. This is rapidly changing. Recently, there has been an explosion of books, teachings, professions, and realizations that we are ASLEEP. The good news is ... we can wake up!There is a part of us that is in direct contact with Universe. Each of us have ability to tune in and be much more aware of what we do and how we do it. The first step in this process is to watch carefully and catch your self being asleep. Start with simple things like negative emotions. When we allow negative emotions into our life (anger, jealousy, fear) we are asleep! These emotions are so destructive to us and our environment that there is little chance that we are consciously allowing these destructive emotions into our lives. So it then follows we must be asleep and doing these things automatically. Where they come from and how we learn them is another story for another time, but let's just say each
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