What Small Business Choices Are You Making?
July 16, 2009 by Sharon Wilson
Filed under 30-Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge, Diversify Your Income
I have started reflecting on the choices I have made in both life and business and wanted to share with you about one of those choices and how it worked out.
My daughter recently graduated from 5th grade. I started to think back to our decision to put her in a public school system. For her first 4 years of school she was in a private school but we weren’t satisfied with the curriculum and started discussing putting her in public school. In our area, the public school system is award winning and I had conversations with everyone I knew that sent their children there.
My husband said to me one day that with all we teach our daughter about how to handle things we should put her in an environment with the most possibilities, which would be this public school system.
A few days later, my third grade daughter came to me in my office and gave me all the pluses to going to the new school. She laid out the benefits to each issue that she could think of. I just looked at her and couldn’t believe she was so wise at such a young age.
At her recent graduation I asked her how she felt about the decision to change schools a couple years ago and she was so happy. She told me that she was happiest about the choice that she got to make on what school to go to.
Now I ask you…what small business choices are you making…and are they the right ones for you?In our business every day there are new decisions to make and multiple choices in front of us for different paths to pursue.
• Add a Joint Venture
• Add an affiliate program
• Work on a new product
• Hire additional staff
Even in a large corporation, there are small business choices to make. Not only do we have large choices in our business but small choices each day.
I have found through my daughter that you need to always take a step back in business and life and really think through the issue and list the benefits in order to make the right choice for your business.
You need to have an energy blueprint in your business to make the choices you need to make guided by spirit. In the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge you’ll get access to 16+ lessons that will help you to make these everyday business choices, there will be an amazing Spiritualpreneur forum of like-minded entrepreneurs, a chance to win a spot in my 6-month Empowered Spiritualpreneur tele-Program ($2,000 value), and much more.
Start making those choices in an easier way today once you have learned the energy blueprint we teach in the Free 30 day challenge. You will be on the road to making quicker and more effective choices in your daily life and in your business.
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I must say your daughter is really bright at her age, ya sometimes a kid teach us some of the life’s lesson in such a simple manner that you are left dumbfounded. But as your daughter taught it to you you taught it to me,i think you are right we need to step back and take a bird view of the whole situations ans then act accordingly.I would like to know how your spritualprenuer program is going to do for my business.
Asking a question to ourselves such as “is this decision bring me closer to my goals or taking me futher away from my goals?” can be a useful check and balance when making large or small every day decisions.
Nice post. Thanks for your tips.
Sharon, I believe it’s important to ask this question not only when we are about to embark on a new business effort, but as an on-going question about our business. Every 3 months, I take some time to reflect and let go of what isn’t working so I can embrace something better suited.
Thank you for reminding conscious business-owners about this important step!
Many blessings,
Nancy
Really very useful content is posted above.I am impressed with your thoughts that are written above for making our small business.
I am in awe of my children every time I’m with them and I do learn quite a bit from just observing and interacting with them.
I think the best business decision to make is that you CAN succeed! It’s an internal game more than anything.
You can call it spiritual power, or positive thinking, or whatever. But I believe we are all divinely made with the ability to succeed. It’s just all the garbage we’ve accumulated over the years that is gunking up the process.
The job now is to get ‘un-gunked’ and press on to whatever success you desire.
Nice blog. Thanks you for the enlightening about small business. The more you know, the better you will succeed!. Also, nice layout. I use Brian’s themes a couple of my sites. Thanks
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i’m choose selling my own product, well not to much profit for now because i’m still a newbie but i will keep learning. thanks for your sharing sharon
But I believe we are all divinely made with the ability to succeed. It’s just all the garbage we’ve accumulated over the years that is gunking up the process. Thanks for your post
I think you have guide her well. back in spiritual experience,teach us better wisdom, with better understanding of what is happening. thanks for the blog.
Depends on the business. Growth isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight. Whether you feel your business is ready to diversify its service offerings, enter new markets, or branch into new territory, a strategic and operational plan for growth is a must.
I agree we do need to take a step back when making choices. It’s easy to make a choice quickly and without much thought – yet if we took a few moments to think about it, we might decide on a different choice that would work out better.
After the crisis stroked I definitely stopped thinking on hiring additional stuff, my primer thoughts are now about whom should I fire.
Sounds like you have a smart kid on your hands! One of the joys of having your own business is making decisions of your own.
Nowadays, you must be super creative to have a good business idea that works.:’~
Hey Sharon,
This post has really made me think about ways I can go forward and improve my business. I’m still quite new to internet marketing but have got some good results recently which has motivated me to stick with it. Your post has also helped me stay positive – thank you!
Sez
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good info, i really enjoyed the read.
i ran out of business ideas, but i mostly invest on stuffs related to food and real estate:::
I have recently dipped my toe into the overload of affiliate marketing as I put my first product together. I have spent a long time putting content together on my blog for my audi9ence and I thought that I needed to introduce some commercial aspect to the site before I launch my own product.
I find so many people are just plain scared to make a decision! There are no wrong decisions when you go with your gut feeling. Everything always works out the way you really want it to… Depends on how you want your future to look, feel and be. A Business Plan always helps.
Hello from South Afirca! Im going the route of multiple small income streams, set and forget type projects and seeing if they can build critical mass over time. Im tired of these all eggs in one basket deals they never seem to pan out properly for me.
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The US Small Business Administration says that small businesses create two of every three new jobs, produce 39% of the gross national product, and invent more than half the nation’s technological innovation. And this kind of statistic could be repeated in country after country around the world. Just because you work for or run a small company doesn’t mean you are unimportant. Your contribution to your country’s economy is huge.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the larger a company grows, the harder it becomes to provide good customer service. Just try to find the right person to help you on the phone in a huge corporation — it’ll drive you batty. But when you ask for the owner of a small business, chances are you’ll be speaking to her or him within a few minutes. Marketers toss around buzzwords like “Customer Relationship Management (CRM),” but it’s the small business not the megacorp that really excels at it. Small businesses know that their livelihood is based on their customers. Small is great for customers.
In a small business, you have to excel at a lot of things to succeed. Small business owners and their key employees are masters of dozens of disciplines and perform their intricate balancing act like pros. So what if they wear more than one hat? Whom should we admire more — the corporate manager or the jack-of-all-trades small business owner, whose skill-set is sharpened to a razor’s edge, and who survives and succeeds and serves? My vote is with the latter.
For what it is worth, for myself I have learned that joint ventures are not for me. Both of my recent JVs have ended in stress and near lawsuits. Some of this is my responsibility, of course, and I am taking the life lesson to heart. For the (my) world to be a more peaceful place, I will honor my conviction to only do business in a way that has proven beneficial to my customers and lower stress for me…
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I am a firm believer that you should always have lots of little income streams in a business, as many streams become a river in the end. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, use multiple income streams and then expand the ones that work well
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This is probably one of the best brings up of this topic I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s obvious that the understanding of the topic is deep and this designed for an extremely interesting study.
To be honest I have some small business decision in my life that fail. But no matter what happen I just have to try and try again. Sometimes we are faced with life difficult choices, the important thing here is that, you have a God that love you and a family that support you all the way. Your lucky to be able to have a wonderful husband and a great child.
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Definitely, your daughter has a great potential to become successful someday. I think she knows her potential and she knows how to grow up well-rounded.Great things happen when we make choices that can really contribute for a greater outcome. Thanks for sharing!
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I’m still quite new to internet marketing but have got some good results recently which has motivated me to stick with it. Your post has also helped me stay positive during the process.
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We have to excel at a lot of things to succeed. Best small business owners are masters of dozens of disciplines and perform their intricate balancing act like pros.
Now, all is very competitive. I want to enter into small business market but afraid of failing because I have only basic knowledge.
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Very helpful. Sometimes we just think we know exactly the path we are taking business-wise but we all need guidance. Even pros try to learn new lessons and beginners have to learn the hard way. Keeping yourself as well as your decisions under check is important to avoid risks, although it is unavoidable but what’s important is we learn from our mistakes.
I totally agree with your post, everyday many entrepreneurs encounter small business choices that they must make in order for the business to run smoothly such as adding more products or services, changing suppliers, etc. These choices must be done carefully in consultation with your staff or partners.
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