Last week we covered Simple Steps one through five, you can read them here. I hope you enjoyed them and don’t underestimate how powerful they are in your life. Now let’s move on to number six…
Six – Create A FUN JOB
Remember, you are the architect of your life and your business. You can change ANYTHING at ANY TIME. Watch out for the times you will inevitably go on autopilot and find yourself not liking something you created. Also remember that you are the mirror in your life and business. Your clients, your team, your vendors are all reacting to the the energy you send out. Be authentic, dependable, fun, and abundant in everything you do and you will find that you have created an incredibly FUN JOB for yourself and those you have chosen to work with.
Seven – Position Yourself
Pay attention to your choices. Subconsciously, everyone is making assumptions about you based on what you say yes and no to. For instance, do you write articles or author books, do you speak at workshops or provide keynotes to conferences, do you run a company of one or have a team… the list goes on and on. People are making assumptions all the time whether we like it or not. You need to be aware of this and you need to leverage this human behavior in everything you do from now on. I have a long list of ways I have my clients think bigger and act bigger in this area.
Eight – Slow Down
The paradox of time in business… Time is money and what I have learned is that the more realistic and balanced I became about the concept of managing and leveraging time, the more magnetic my company became. When I respected myself enough to create a schedule that included time for me to just “be”, I was able to “be” whatever my team, clients, or family needed later on. Slowing down also allows us to create in a conscious way so that we avoid mistakes in our lives and in our businesses.
Nine – Decide What You Will Leverage
In business, we have time, money, and expertise to leverage. That’s it. You can create more leverage by creating something once to sell over and over again. Could be a membership, an infoproduct, a software, a manufactured product, and so on. If you must provide a service, then go directly to managing others to provide that service and you skip a huge hurdle right away and introduce scalability (leverage) to your business. There are many more examples… your job today is to start leveraging something as soon as possible.
Ten – Write It All Down
Busy CEOs such as ourselves have a huge amount of information in our heads. Create processes in your life to to get it all out of your head and on paper or in virtual systems. I keep track of various parts of the business on a 4 x 6 write on wipe off board on my office wall as well as using Google Calendar, Google Email, and Basecamp to manage all the different parts of my life and business. This allows me to move from project to project faster as well as manage a team and a family because everything is written down somewhere. Be patient with yourself while you work on creating ways to track information you consistently need access to.
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