In keeping with the theme of the New Year and getting your ship sailing in the right
direction, making necessary and often tough changes and decisions, this week I’m
going to take you behind the scenes of how I get so much done and manage so many
different projects, businesses, income streams, and relationships.
The short answer is, I work. Hard, long, often, relentlessly. But, that’s not the
sexy answer you are looking for and to leave it at that wouldn’t be telling you all
the truth.
My business is pretty much divided right down the middle in terms of getting money
and fulfilling for the money we get. My primary responsibility is being me, going
out and getting clients and expanding relationship into bigger opportunities,
creating enough demand to raise fees and become more valuable.
That’s all another way of saying creating chaos, running around causing trouble, and
doing a whole of stuff then having to figure it out after the fact. That’s the way
it goes if you want to get a lot done, we are valuable to a lot of people, and
create above average income.
But, there is after all another side to the business. You can never fully do the
“work on the business” versus “in the business” thing entirely. It’s impossible.
At least someone has to pay attention to the details, deliver on the goods, fulfill
for the money.
Without some backend support, someone taking care of the ying while you’re out
yanging…you’ll go nowhere fast and hit a ceiling in your business quickly leading
to frustration and unhealthy stress. I say unhealthy because too many people think
stress is avoidable and crumble under pressure. Not so. Everything happens under
pressure and stress is inevitable but it doesn’t ever have to be unhealthy.
Back to my point, and my brother, who is my business partner and really life partner
as friend and confidant. I mean, he keeps me alive, out of jail, and relatively
sane.
Yet, I seldom see him, less than once a month now, this year. We talk one
structured time each week and have more random conversations about football and
politics than business, because we have a system for working together, for building
businesses.
We divide things right down the middle both using our own specialized and developed
skills, maximizing our talents, things we prefer to be doing, we do.
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The ONE Word that Changes Everything
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011I wanted to remind you of something today. Something I think I have mentioned in
the past, but has never been truer.
Several years ago I attended one of the two Renegade Millionaire Retreats that Dan
Kennedy hosted and it was there he promised to reveal what he said was the secret to
life.
Which he happened to have written on a single 3×5 card, the card containing only one
word.
Dan cleverly wrote this promise into the sales letter selling the event, then having
gone through the entire event and concluding the final question and answer session
someone reminded him of his promise and then, in very anticlimactic marketing let
down fashion…
He gave the answer.
Dan said that the secret to all of life and the word he had written on the card was –
DECIDE.
Yes, that’s right “Decide.”
Dan said, “the secret is to just decide and then go do something.”
Now, before you dismiss this, understand the power in it.
The POWER that you hold the secret to life and everything you could possibly want.
Let me put it to you a different way –
Without DECISION, nothing, and I do mean nothing, happens.
When I look back at my life, periods of disappointment, unhappiness, lack of
success, even failure…times when I could have called myself “depressed”.
I can confidently say it was my unwillingness to decide
To change
To act
To think
To move
To ask
To be uncomfortable
To have integrity
To step up
To sell
To say no
To say yes
Simply, every action first requires a decision.
And that, my friend, is powerful.
Empowering.
The definition of DECISION is:
To come to a resolution in the mind as a result of consideration.
And RESOLUTION:
A firm decision to do or not to do something.
I will promise you this;
Any uneasiness you face is a direct result of you not making a decision.
Lack of commitment (by nature of the three words)
Is what kills a persons ability to have success.
Indecision is lack of commitment.
Now that you know what you must do more of.
Decide.
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