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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!
What to Do When You’ve Made a Life-Shatteringly Bad Decision
Nov 14th
The type of thing I’m talking about can vary, but an example from my own life was my decision to take up smoking when I was 16. I knew it was probably a bad idea at the time, but sometimes bad ideas can have a fascinating seductivity to them that makes them impossible to resist. I struggled with cigarettes for seven years after that before finally giving them away for good.
Other examples of life-shattering decisions include adultery, recreational drug use, crime, debt, and pointless arguments with friends and family. There comes a moment in everybody’s life when they do something so stupid that they will be dealing with the consequences for years afterwards. Sometimes, the choice can be made in an instant, sometimes over a few months. But always, it turns out to be damaging and wrong.
What should you do after you’ve done such a thing in your own life?
The first thing to do, when you come out of the initial shock, is admit that what you’ve done was stupid and wrong. Many people live in misery and destruction because of their simple inability to admit to themselves that they might have done something wrong. Instead, they try to rationalize it away – “I enjoy taking cocaine”, “I was falling out of love with my spouse anyway”, “who cares about money?”.
Once you’ve admitted to yourself that you’ve made a mistake, the next thing is to assess if it’s possible to return to the circumstances before the decision was made. In the case of drug addiction, it feasible that you can free yourself from it and end up in much the same state as before. In the case of infidelity, you must accept that your marriage will never be the same again, no matter how hard you try.
If you’re able to return to your previous, more pure state of life, then you must immediately start working out a concrete, achievable plan for doing so. Don’t be unrealistic, and realize that it’s going to be difficult to return to first base, but find a determination to do so. Some of the motivation articles on Paul’s Tips can help you do that.
In the case where you are unable to return to your previous state, consider what would be the next best thing. If you’ve committed infidelity and ruined a marriage you love, is it possible you can rebuild it to some kind of still functional state? If you’ve been caught committing a serious crime, is it possible you can rebuild some kind of decent life after the jail term has finished?
Once again, the trick is to make some kind of concrete, achievable plan. Write it down if necessary. Acknowledge that it’s going to be extremely difficult, but combine that with a determination to see it through.
So there are the two steps: firstly admit your error, then take steps to repair it. The life-shatteringly bad decisions we all make from time to time will have a devastating effect. Learn how to recover from them gracefully.
