At the end of the day, look back and ask yourself, “What did you really accomplish today?”

If you can’t answer that question with:

• I did this
• Got this completed
• Talked to so-and-so about this
• Finished this project
• Closed this deal

Then perhaps it is not how you are ending your day; it may be how you are starting your day.

I keep a long list of things that I need to do. Every morning I look at the list and ask myself, “How can I move these tasks forward?”

Will it require an email?

Do I need to make a phone call?

Is there a specific task I need to do?

I realized a few years ago that all I can do is move things forward one step at a time… one baby step, then another one.

Trying to do too much too fast usually means that nothing substantive actually gets done.  In the end all you have is a bunch of unfinished items, which leads to unfinished projects.

Take a step back and see what little things you can do to move a project forward. You will find that you actually have a lot less to do than you think, and can accomplish more than you can imagine.

Get moving…

No business owner ever has enough time or information to make the right decision. Too many things can change that are outside of your control.

Technology is changing. The customers are changing. The market demand is changing. And yet we are hopeful that we make the right choices on a day-to-day basis.

What I have found in the last few years is that it is not the correctness of the decision that has been my saving grace. It has been the ability to change from the decisions that I have made to something different, quickly and without reservation.

When the world is changing around you, your best position is that of flexibility. Don’t get stuck and fixed in the idea that this is the way that it is going to be. As soon as you dig in you will find that the market has yet again changed around you.  You are left standing there and wondering, “What happened to my glorious sure-fire plan?”

Learning how to make good decisions is one thing.  Learning how to make good decisions on the fly is becoming a required skill for the business owner who is working in ever-changing market situations.

Think better. Think faster. 

• What is your definition of success?
• Are you giving “it” your all?
• Are you making a true effort?

Listen for the definition of character and reputation… Very powerful points.

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Question for you?

Are you leveraging technology for your maximum benefit?

This one person is acting as a full orchestra.

Tools. Practice. Willingness. Performance. 

How can you use the technology that you have access to…

• keep in touch with more people
• increase your productivity
• communicate better with clients and customers
• be better organized
• promote our products and services
• get better information

These are real situations that there are technology leveraged solutions that do exist.

The real question is: Are we using the resources that we have available to us?

Enjoy…

As I viewed this video in the wee hours of the morning, I was struck by the collaboration and combination that the embrace of technology has spawned within the arts community. Because of the internet and social media technologies, dance moves from one part of the world are easily shared elsewhere. Thus an acceleration of the evolution of dance as we know it.

Moving the art form to levels that we have not seen before. This is spectacular to watch.

This is the true use of technology as it used to create new movement and expression. This is the highest and best use of media.

In this short video I saw:

• value exchange
• emotional response
• years of dedicated practice
• self discipline to perfect a craft

Manipulation of space, time and energy are within the realm of quantum physics but are part of the vocabulary of dance. Amazing and intriguing.

What I also observed was dance styles that are from the 70’s still being practiced and refined and taken to new levels of control and perfection.

Alot of implications here…

Like when was the last time, you got up from your computer and really interacted with people?

Hmmm….

Enjoy.

This is an interesting video that is still valid. How can you position yourself and your business based on trend thinking?

Social media is part of the getting ideas into the marketplace.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are everywhere. You just had another idea.  In fact, as you are reading this you will get a few new ones.

You can be inspired by anything. The key is what you do with the ideas that you or others have.  Innovation is the buzzword these days… but to truly innovate, someone has to build it and make it work.

In short, an idea that is not executed is nothing but a fleeting flash of brilliance.

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Are you creating noise or productive thoughts with the conversations that you are participating in?

What tools are you using to listen to the effects of the conversations that are you are creating?

Are the conversations that you are creating valuable?

Are they meaningful?

Are they productive or supporting productivity?

To whom are your conversation valuable?

How do you know?

What is your metric?

Just something to ponder as you create and add sounds (called conversations) to your marketplace.

By David Bullock

Are you leveraging your efforts and managing your time with regard to your social media marketing and networking?

This simple question comes from the following client observations:

• Plenty of traffic with no revenue.
• Plenty of content with no revenue.
• Great rankings with no revenue.
• Beautifully designed website with no revenue.
• Huge followerships with no revenue.
• Large networks with no revenue.

So here are a few of the questions that I ask…

• Do you have a strategy for your content?
• Are you making headway in terms of leads, conversions and sales?
• Are you just creating and posting content for the sake of posting content?
• Are you just online and now using this thing called “social media” because it just sounds like a good idea?

In your social media productivity mix you have…

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Sometime you need to sit back and analyze what you are doing with your business.  There is a whole area of activity that can suck up time and funds without the business owner truly being aware of the drain it can have on your bottom line.  I called this activity “Non-Revenue Generating Actions”

As a business owner, you can easily get caught up in doing things that don’t make any money for your business. Usually we classify things like:

• getting the mail
• paying bills
• paperwork
• building websites
• answering email or the phone

as things that need to be outsourced and not “important” for a business owner to handle. The craze right now is to outsource everything. That is fine, if you are outsourcing the

• right things
• to the right people
• for the right projects.

But there is a bigger hole in your business that is beyond outsourcing. It is the thinking that chooses the projects that you work on.

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