What Small Business Choices Are You Making?

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? Read more

Do You Have Your Career Builders In Place?

I have never liked doing housework. When I was single I lived in an apartment complex and decided to go for a walk one day because I didn’t feel like doing the cleaning, laundry and ironing that was waiting for me back home.

While I was on my walk, I noticed a woman with a number of children.  I stopped to talk to her and in our conversation she told me she had 7 children.

Being the oldest of 7 children myself, I loved being around kids and offered to babysit for her from time to time so she could go out with her husband alone. I knew it would be hard for her to find a sitter that could handle that many children at once and since I had grown up watching my siblings I knew it would be a lot of fun for me.

She was so thankful but wanted to do something for me in return.  Jokingly I said not unless she enjoyed cleaning, doing laundry and ironing.

To my surprise, she told me that she did enjoy those tasks. She said her favorite time was when her husband took the kids and she could do all those things in peace.  It was her way of meditating.

You can imagine how excited I was when we swapped tasks.  She was near tears that she could go out with her husband alone, and I was thrilled that I wouldn’t have to do these household tasks that I despised.
If I hadn’t stopped to talk to her, I never would have come across this opportunity.

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What Peer Pressure Are You Dealing With In Your Business?

My daughter recently came home from school one day looking a little concerned.  I asked her what was wrong and she told me that all of her friends have boyfriends.

I noticed she looked confused and we sat down to talk about it.  Much to my relief she stated that since they were only 11 she thought boys should just be friends not “boyfriends”.  Which I told her is a very wise choice.  She then told me that one boy asked her out but that she doesn’t want a boyfriend right now. She does feel like she is supposed to have one though.

This is a case of peer pressure. There are many kinds of peer pressure for both kids and adults.

We worked on visualizing what she wanted to have happen.

She wanted her friends to stop making such an issue out of having a boyfriend and she just wanted to be friends with this particular boy.

The next day when she got home from school she said the visualization worked.  The boy came up and told her he just wanted to be friends right now. Next, at lunch one of her friends said she thought that their group of friends should just decide to have boys as friends and not have “boyfriends” until they got older.

This same thing happens in your business.  You deal with peer pressure in a number of ways in your business, much like my daughter deals with peer pressure in a number of ways with her friends.

Just like her, you need to deal with the peer pressure in your business if you expect your business to grow.  Your first step is to identify what peer pressures you’re dealing with.

What peer pressure are you dealing with in your business?

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Is it Starting to Feel Like a Pain to Go Into Work Every Day to Your Own Business?

Having your own business does not have to be a struggle.  It can be like play!

When you come from a place of joy you are magnetic.  The best of you shows up.  You activate the best in other people and cause there to be an energetic shift.

How can you embrace this aspect of play when it comes to your own business?

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