Challenges bring their own happiness..

Last post I was down. Now I am on the way back up. It feels SO good to be going up.

Remember I said the cool thing about being down is the relativity of being up. It is so true. I think also that being down brings with it a consciousness all it’s own of “why am I down” and “what can I/will I/must I do about it?”

From those thoughts come actions. Conscious thinking always brings actions.

This morning I spoke for a hour to 500 high school freshman and their teachers (more…)

Happiness like the tides moves in and out

Sometimes I go on and on about finding happiness and contentment where some might think I am just bubbling with joy every minute.

Not exactly.

You see, surely I am not that much different from you. Are you bubbling with joy every minute!

This weekend has me thinking this morning I would love to just pack and leave! Hit the road. Go do something new! (more…)

Happiness and success from someone else!

Finding happiness is a subject I am passionate about.

A lot of people share that passion, and I search them out wherever I can.

For the last two years I have also been studying internet marketing from some of the best minds on the interent. One of the best is John Reese.

John created an information product, rolled it out over a perios of time and created over $1 million in revenue – in one week.

John is a cool guy. He shares his knowledge well, and often and I enjoy his articles and his newsletters (paid subscription $99 a month!)

Today he released a video I highly recommend to you. He shares a system he used to go from over $100k in debt ot a slef made millionaire. and he shares it for free. No strings attached.

Click here to get the video. It is an hour long but worth it. He gives some great simple advice and three steps to happiness and success.

I think enough of it to start tomorrow!

http://www.marketingsecrets.com/newblog/

Miami

Happiness and Small Business Owners

Let’s take a different tack today and talk about small business owners.

Why? Because it is my blog and I am writing it and I feel like it!

Do happiness and small business owners go together? Not usually! I have coached quite a few owners and managers of business and they do not ask for happiness, they ask for less stress, more help from staff, more profit, and less work.

The key question I always ask is why? Why do you want that? Then I ask again when the answer comes. And again. Five times is the rule.

When you get the answer to the fifth why question you should be close to the truth and real reasoning. Sometimes people are very good at hiding the truth – even from themselves.

Many times I find the truth is owners and managers want happiness! Less stress = more happiness. Less work=more happiness.

I have many tools in my bag for helping small business owners find answers to the most common challenges that might just  then lead to more happiness.

Here is one that might help you.

There is only four parts to any business – large or small. Of course these four can be broken in many more, but it is relatively easy for me to get a quick overview of any business by looking at these four.

1. Vision – any enterprise without a vision is wandering out in the dark. Maybe the best way to communicate how important vision is would be to say “a great vision inspires teams to achieve”. No vision – no inspiration.

2. People. As Stephen Covey says so well: right people in the right seats on the right bus. Any one of those three is wrong – it is all wrong. And people are THE MOST IMPORTANT part of any business whether it is a one employee or ten thousand.

3. Process. There must be  process for people to follow. Process is the path to the vision – the strategy. How do we get to the vision. Which way, what tools, what goals?  With process people know what they are supposed to do and will do it.

4. Review. This is the management whose responsibility is to check to be sure the right people are following the process and it is moving everyone forward to the vision. It is measurement, milestones, rewards and feedback.

With these four in place the basic fundamentals of any enterprise are in place and simply need tweaking to work.

Look at your own enterprise. What is your vision? Who are the people and what are their responsibilities? What is their process and will it lead to the vision?  Who or what is the review or feedback?

Let me know what you find! Do you think it might lead to finding more happiness?

Miami

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