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You Can Work Less and Make More Money
Jan 24th
These days it seems we work longer and harder and still end up with less money in our pockets at the end of the Month. Wouldn’t it be great if you could work less hours and still have more money in your pocket? Well you can if you reduce your current debt and spend more work hours on tasks that produce more income.
Realistically there are only few ways available to us to make money. As an employee, investor, by marriage or inheritance or as a business owner. Of all these being a business owner will give you the best opportunity to control the amount of money you can make.
Let’s take a look at some ways to make more money in business. 1. have more customers, 2. sell more products 3. increase the price, 4. reduce your costs, 5. build up a strong business that you cans sell for a profit.
The best way to make more money in your business is to spend your time getting more new customers which will lead to more sales. Everyone is very busy in their business but if you look at what you spend most of your time on in your business you will realize that it is on doing things that are important but do not make you money. You need to work smarter not harder.
A good way of doing this is to Leverage your time, in other words getting others to do a range of tasks to help you get things done. You need to able to delegate some of the other tasks to other people in your business. If you create systems in your business there are 2 benefits. Your business can run without you doing the work which frees you up to focus on getting more customers and also your business is consistent in quality and standard because everyone follows the same procedures.
If you hire an assistant they will be able to process a lot of administration and organizational tasks which will free up your time.
Customer Service is very important to your business, You need to keep in contact with your customers and develop a good relationship. There are easy and relatively cheap ways to communicate with customers via the internet nowadays such as email, newsletters, telemarketing and EzineArticles. This will have numerous benefits. Firstly repeat business, good work of mouth referrals and even selling of other related products.
To get an idea of what to charge for your product you need to look at the market to see what prices are currently being charged and whether you are able in increase the price of your product. You may also be able to reduce your overheads and costs by simply taking control of your expenses and asking yourself if this is required to make your business more profitable. Also look for ways to make your business more efficient and a really good way to do this is to enlist your employees feedback and help.
Some people like to build up a business and then sell it for a profit. If you are looking to do this you must first assess the type of business to make sure it is saleable or does it require your specific expertise to be profitable. If not make sure good business structure and systems are implemented.
So just to recap we see that you can have more money with less time spent working if you implement some important strategies. Firstly work smarter not longer. Look at your current debt to see if you can get rid or at least reduce it. Then look at your current methods of making money and try to focus more on task that actually make you money. Hopefully this should lead to more money in your pocket and more time away from work to enjoy yourself!
Living Inside Two Boxes – The Power of Self-Image
Sep 16th
The Self-Image is a principal piece of Self-Awareness. Your Self-Image defines and limits almost everything you do. The Self-Image is the gateway to your talents and ultimately, the achievement of your goals.
It makes no difference what the goal is, if it is not consistent with your Self-Image the gateway or access to your abilities will remain restricted and sometimes, even closed.
A great picture of Self-Image is illustrated by placing a dot in the center of a piece of clean paper, around it draw a box with a dotted line about an inch on each side. Then, outside that small box draw a bigger one with a solid line about five inches on each side. Now you should have a dot inside two boxes, one small with dotted lines and the other much larger drawn with solid lines.
The dot represents you, the large box with solid lines represents your real limitations E.g. you cannot run a 4 minute mile because you have only one leg. The smaller box, with dotted lines,, represents your own self limiting beliefs about your self, usually much less than your real limitations and often incorrect E.g. I cannot run a 15 minute mile because I am fat and out of shape.
An essential piece to becoming all of which you are capable is to push the limits of your Self-Image (the small box) closer to those imposed by the bigger, physical limitation box. Expanding your Self-Image involves self-talk and questioning the limits of your current self.
Two phrases really make the difference between achieving your goals and not achieving them and both drive the Self-Image; “That is just me!” and “I can be all I choose to be!” One is four words and the other is eight, but “Oh, the power they hold. One is limiting and the other is open-ended.
“That is just me,” kind-of-talk is self-limiting. When asked why you arrive late at work and you respond, “that is just me,” you have set the stage that will encourage you to consistently arrive late. On the other hand, if you respond to that same question with, “in the future, I respect other’s time and always arrive early.” you are describing future behavior in the present tense and have chosen to be all you can. You can arrive early, if you decide to arrive early, almost all of the time.
What is your Self-Image? Are you living in the small box or are you pushing the limits of your self image to find out what your limitations really are?
