Starting a business is exciting, fun, stressful, mysterious, and tricky. One thing I have noticed and love is that all businesses want to live and strive. In most cases if you work hard and stick to the format of success it will happen. So why does most small businesses still fail? In an economy always looking for something better and smarter to come to life, we are in a generation made for new companies to do well in. We literally thirst for new companies. With all this opportunity and the millions of tools and help available for your business, you have ask again… how are businesses not popping up making millions everyday? A quick reality check will show that 543,000 new businesses start each month in the US, this doesn’t help. Also over 27 million small businesses already exist in the US, which is a whole lot. So now we have great and not so great circumstances. Bottom line is a lot of new businesses survive and even take off faster than a jackrabbit on a hot date, this can and should be you. And end the end only one thing will matter… You, the owner. In the end if a business closes down and they look back, […]
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -Henry David Thoreau It’s easy to put a price on things, especially if you have a price gun. There is countless businesses and websites finding the value of things and ideas. The one factor that has always been overlooked if the amount of life used in exchange. How do you put a price on a piece of art that was made with the last strands of love from a hopeless romantic or the favorite watch made by a clock worker that made time pieces with passion most might never know. It would have no value to someone that did not know or care about the life put into it. How can the time put into something make it more important, just because something makes money right away does that really have more value then a slow growing business built with the sweat and tears of a hard working individual? You can check the blue book value of your car but can you forget about the time it saved your life or provided shelter when it was freezing outside? Maybe the value of something is simply what someone else will pay. Or […]
Being driven is not something you are born with, it’s takes time to learn just like any other trait. Here are some short cuts to start taking more action towards your goals today. Shout out to TADLA for helping me clean things up! 1. Feeling Bad for Yourself. Most driven people take what they can from a bad situation, learn from it, and move on. Never feel like the world owes you something, it does not. 2. Allowing Others to Use You. Driven people can see right away if someone is trying to use them or take their energy. When you see this happening or foresee this, shake it off and move on. 3. Being Afraid of Change Driven people embrace change and realize to succeed you must adapt and excel. 4. Worrying About Things You Cannot Control To be driven is to not let minor situations set back your overall goal. Things will always set you back, the trick is to let it effect you the least amount possible and stay moving forward. 5. People Pleasing Driven people do not get ahead by kissing butts. They make their own path and plow through anything in their way. 6. Fear […]