4 Core Ingredients For Exponential Productivity
November 27, 2009
Find out the 4 Core Ingredients for being more productive, more focused, more creative and resourceful. So you can attract more leads, more sales, live a more healthy and balanced lifestyle.
The leader who works most effectively, do not say ‘I’ but ‘we’", Peter Drucker
Synergy comes from 2 Greek words: "syn" which translates as "with" or "together" and "ergos" which means "work". συνεργός means the working together of. Synergy is coined by Buckminster Fuller.
Action Item: Take up the challenge and experience great team synergy
Solo Entrepreneur Renting Multiple Expert Input
November 16, 2009
Most solo business owners and the self employed manage their business all by themselves and work pretty much on their own.
To constantly improve and to increase their productivity, some attend weekend seminars and workshops to learn from experts while others stay on top of the game by updating themselves with magazines and books.
However, this is still trying to do most if not all of the entrepreneurial work of planning, deciding, managing, sourcing all on your own. That often feels like you are working in isolation and you wonder how others are handling issues that you have. You wish you can have a peep into or better still ride on others' way of doing things and move forward faster and easier.
What if …
There is a way for you to tap into a wide collection of skills, creativity, experience and expertise as well as resources of other business owners so you achieve your desired results using their proven paths to avoid pitfalls?
This way –
1- You can create results that you could not otherwise have achieved (at least not as quickly nor smoothly) without the combined resources and assets of others.
Imagine if you can connect with others on a regular basis -
2- You increase your influence and network with others, you reach further and wider with less effort.
Would it not be worth considering?
3- Also something magical happens when a few people put their heads and hearts together regularly in a concerted effort and work in harmony to support each others' success. The combined effort far outweighs the sum of the individual efforts. Buckminster Fuller calls this synergy.
Synergy does not happen if you work alone. Your brightest idea stands alone. But when collective wisdom and expertise work together, you get far greater results, more creativity, more resourcefulness and more options or solutions to choose from.
That is the beauty of having an avenue to tap into others’ sphere of knowledge and influence. You not only network with others but also achieve your results faster, tapping into others' experience and assets.
Combine your skills and influence
Some business owners meet on an ad hoc basis in an informal setting where different persons take turns chairing a support meeting. This is on a need-to basis and these meetings are generally dissolved when the project on hand is completed.
Imagine what greater benefit you can have when you have regular and on going structured mastermind team meeting. A mastermind team is often more "objective driven", focus-and-to-the-point and with a facilitator in place. The facilitator normally runs the meeting with a process which ensures that more focus questions are asked and more focus goals are set. The facilitator also will put the meeting time to good use when there is focus discussion.
Equally important is to ensure that every participant gets her/his chance to have his/her concerns addressed and attended to. In any case, the mastermind will be a place of resource and it will set up some accountability structures for you to keep focus move towards your target.
In this fast paced world with new opportunities every day, it is so easy to be side tracked and distracted from your goal. Keeping on track and on target could make the difference between surviving and thriving.
I cannot stress the benefits of having a regular mastermind enough. I recommend you join one and experience the magic for yourself.
What Makes You A Prodcutive Trail Blazer And Not A Reactive Fire Fighter?
November 9, 2009
Majority of people begin their work day with checking emails and diving into addressing one crisis or another. A typical day at work may feel like you are rushing through tasks and projects and attending to whatever is most urgent and pressing. Goals? Well, those are around too, but many just do not get round to these carefully crafted goals and mission statements.
It is also not uncommon that projects are delayed for months, even years or that they may be pushed out the door in haste in an effort to “go live” with a bang. Sometimes testing has not been done and you go into fire fighting mode when project "goes live". Band aids and quick fixes are applied and you pack in a day’s work for some well deserved rest at the end of a long day – before you drag yourself to another day of fire fighting the next morning.
I have been through this, and it is too painful. It drains you of energy, efficiency, and creativity. You are driven passively to react to patching up instead of proactively creating, planning, implementing, testing, rolling out, tracking and reviewing projects that you are passionate about. Before long, you get de-motivated, exhausted and just “get carried along with the flow”. Alternatively you may decide to do something to break the cycle and go into productive, efficient and stress-free mode.
Fortunately you are your own manager; time manager, resource manager, risk manager, project manager, finance manager, marketing and sales manager, operations manager, business development manager all rolled into one whether you run your own business or not. Yes, you are in control of your own life.
If you want to blaze the trail,
If you are working on getting more leads, more sales, more partners, more products to be created and
If you value ideas and multiple objective expert views from those who have "been there done that" (or "are there and doing that"), then
Reach out and join a mastermind group.
People who are like-minded gather regularly to share and bounce off ideas. If you have the motivation, the mindset that embraces change, and if you are looking for independent views and support then a mastermind group will serve you well.
There is a 70% chance that people will not reach their goals even if they fall within the 10% of the population that has some sort of goals. To be among the top 3% who achieve goals 89% of the time you need more than just having clearly define goals.
Awareness is a good start and desire is another great ingredient but if there is no implementation or if there is no objective external views, projects can get off course or downstream. Casualties arise and projects fail. In a mastermind group you are ready and open to consider others views and you hold yourself accountable to the targets you set. It is rather unlikely that one will show up week after week without working on their goals.
The structures that are built into the mastermind group support you as you work on your goals. You take incremental and small steps every week and you achieve much more by chunking down your goals. You have others collaborating with you and giving you input on how you can enhance your project or what booby traps to watch out for. And most importantly, you are serious about the goals you declare to the group and you work on them during the week.
If you do not want to end up like many who spend 90% of the time fire fighting and you are ready to take action then come join a mastermind group in your area, or one that meets over the phone from the comfort of your home. Blaze the trail with your creativity and intentions instead of being a fire fighter!
A word of caution though, not all mastermind groups are effective and respects your precious time. So if you want to invest your time and business in a mastermind group then find one that is lead by a professional mastermind leader who is trained to facilitate the group and who take care of the logistics so you can concentrate on the content and discussions.
I am opening up a mastermind group for professionals as well as solo entrepreneurs and service providers who are just starting out their home businesses and who want to increase productivity and releases unnecessary stress. If you are working on getting more leads, more sales, more partners, more products to be created then write to Contact@AbundantLivesCoaching.com before 25th Nov.
I am offering a free month of phone mastermind facilitation. You decide if you want to continue with me after the initial month. More details will be given on the free orientation call on the 25th Nov at 8:30am US ET (check out the latest event). You can ask any questions and we will address that on the call. Write in and details of the call will be sent to you/ we will have a conversation on how this mastermind can help you set your blaze.
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