Manifesting Your Vision
Whether you have a personal dream or a business vision, unless you do something to manifest that vision in the real world, it will not materialize.
At its core, the process is simple:
- Write out your long range vision,
- Determine intermediate and short-term goals (or projects) that will bring you closer to that vision,
- Take action and implement steps that will help you reach your goals.
The bigger the vision, the more nebulous the path to accomplishing it may be. But no matter what size your dream/vision is, you need to take concrete steps to make it happen.
You need to keep the long range […]
Can’t or Won’t (Achieve Your Potential)?
How many times do you hear someone say they can't do something?
The problem with thinking like this is that you almost guarantee you won't.
Can't is defeatist. There is a finality and despair to it… a sense of giving up on yourself or a cop out.
If you say you can't do something others will lower their expectations regarding you and you can continue to safely coast through life.
But have your really tried? Do you really mean you won't do something?
But you have a choice.
You can choose a goal. You can take steps towards achieving your goal. You can change your attitude to can […]
Make the Pie Bigger
One option for increasing sales is to partner with complementary businesses, put your products or services together and tackle bigger markets jointly.
You share sales and marketing costs and can significantly increase revenues for both parties. The relationship can be informal, formal or you can even launch a joint venture.
There are two keys to making this work:
- Both partners need to give to the relationship so that both win, and
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Both partners need to give to the relationship so that both win.
Yes, the biggest killer of any type of partnership is when one partner takes without giving back. Unfortunately, it happens too often.
You […]
ProCoach Update and Intuition
Al Dhalla and I (Doug Wagner) went to another ProCoach Success Systems seminar put on by Andrew Barber-Starkey. Andrew is based out of Vancouver and was in town for this seminar and other ProCoach activities.
My intuition was telling me I should attend, but I’ll get to that part later.
Their System
Seeing a second presentation by Andrew, talking to some of the people in the room who are (or were) working with him and reviewing some of his materials that he provided as part of the seminar helped me form a stronger opinion about ProCoach.
My feeling so far is that he has developed […]
Strategy – The Amazing Race
On Sunday night I watched two contestants get eliminated from the Amazing Race. It came down to the fact that one of the team members drank so much liquid she had to stop for a bathroom break on the final leg to the pit stop. Not a good way to go down.
This applies to business strategy as well. It is really easy to get caught up in the task at hand and lose sight of the big goals… causing you to lose everything.
On the show, one team member had to eat a bunch of deep fried creatures. In this case, […]
Back to Business
Hoping everything is back to relative normality health-wise.
I will be focusing on my primary role, business development, so the focus of my writings will be shifting to… well business development. Being that the role includes software product development, I will be also returning to my roots in technology and agile development experiences.
In the meantime I hope at least some people enjoyed the ligther side of my more recent posts.
Guys with Sensitive Eyes
I had to take a bit of a hiatus from blogging. Had a flare-up with the eyes and it was a bit hard to read or write much, at least without lots of grammar and spelling errors. But I did have lots of time to think and writing helps clear my thoughts and motivate me… so here goes.
Government Forms Can Cause Blindness
I didn’t know this either and it is not in the fine print anywhere… I found it out the hard way on Wednesday evening. Ok, I admit I procrastinated a bit on the personal tax returns and had […]
Door Openers – Getting The Right Foot In
If your product or service offerings are fairly expensive and you are looking for new clients, one way of getting in the door is having a door opener.
Retail
In retail you see door crashers all the time. Special prices designed to get you in the door or to generate a bit of a marketing buzz.
If oranges are on for 50 cents a pound, you might go to the store and while you are there upgrade to bread and cereal. The upgrade path is clear.
If a big screen TV is regularly $1500 and they have 5 on for $400, they are […]
Spring is Taxing
Just looked at the weather forecast. Cool, wind, rain and snow accumulating until May. Life in the foothills.
Just looked at the calendar, personal taxes returns due by end-April.
Good news, eyes are better… the redness and watering are gone and I can see well again.
Bad news… I can see the snow and tax returns.
Thanks Team!
I like to acknowledge things that are done right.
On Friday, one of our good clients came to us with an unexpected problem. Their client had changed the infrastructure specifications and the application we had helped them build would not run in the new configuration. They had spent a fair amount of effort over two days trying to get it working and then reached out to us.
Of course these things always happen when your most experienced developer on the team is away. Well we managed to connect with him via phone but he was unable to remotely offer a working solution and […]