Entrepreneurs have been finding ways to flow and grow into and out of a challenging economy...
Here are some ideas to help you THRIVE and grow during this transition...
1. Take time to read. Reading can spur creative inspiration and motivation. When you relax and read a book ie fiction, personal development or biography (someone you like, admire, or whose life your's resonates with) you will find within you innovative and refreshing renewal. As you sense that renewal, build on it and use that "momentum" energy to fuel your enterprise.
"To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
- A C Grayling
2. Refuel physically. Exercise and commit to a daily regimen, it will relieve stress, sharpen focus and give you needed "down time" leaving your mind free to explore creative marketing ideas, choices and plans. Why not say... " I am ready to get into the best shape I have ever been in my life!
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance. -Lee Iacocca
3. Commit to plans in writing.
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement". -Brian Tracy
4. Build onto your database and list of past clients. Commit to asking at least 2 people a day for referrals or more importantly thank them for their business and referrals.
"One of the very best ways to get more referrals is for you yourself to become a source of referrals. If you are viewed as a good referral source, then most people with reciprocate"!
-Ken Harrington
5. Seek out at least one way during the course of a week to help someone anonymously. Bank your gratitude to give out of the grace you have received. You have heard the expression. "How are you doing?" "Better than I deserve..." So take the reserve and pass it on...
"There is a wonderful mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else".
-Peyton Conway Marche
6. Call a friend you haven't spoken with in awhile and say hi. Remind yourself that who you are is partly because of your friendships.
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." - Abraham Lincoln
7. Be a mentor. Share your experience, love for your craft, knowledge with someone else. Think about those who have mentored you. Help someone else get farther ahead by sharing "tips and tricks," solutions and ideas.
To the world, you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just might be the world.
-Unknown
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
"Moti-Mentum"
I’ve observed that motivation feeds on momentum.So I started thinking about how momentum is built and sustained:
A plan to “achieve an objective” (succeed) in advance of the “doing of the thing” is the starting place within which momentum can take root and grow. I founded and created this networking group called COFFEEVENT with Mike Dunn. We had an idea that was bigger than both of us. We committed to meeting over the course of the first few weeks and put together a plan for the growth of the group and fed on the vision of what it was to become. Mike and I had seen it done before in other settings and with other groups and that sustained our vision. The definition of effective team synergy is when two in collaboration can “become three” and then Leigh Le Creux and many others joined in and have made it what it is today, a thriving business referral and idea exchange community!If we “envision the win” in detail it happens with greater ease. It’s not enough just to set a goal. It’s more important to play it out in the mind ahead of time the day before or morning before the appointment or event happens. There’s power in the rehearsal in the thought realm that helps “carry it out” fluidly and effortlessly in reality. Another building block of momentum is to be “focused, engaged and committed” in the moment. Simply “be” in the moment, not behind or ahead but “in”. It involves listening, absorbing, intent convergence of thought and action.
“Buying-in” is also important. If I invest in my company, enterprise or mission, monetarily, with my time or visually, I have a proprietary interest. That propriety reads through in my presentation, collaboration and enthusiasm for the product or service. What are your thoughts about the relationship between motivation and momentum. What do you feel are the building blocks of momentum?
A plan to “achieve an objective” (succeed) in advance of the “doing of the thing” is the starting place within which momentum can take root and grow. I founded and created this networking group called COFFEEVENT with Mike Dunn. We had an idea that was bigger than both of us. We committed to meeting over the course of the first few weeks and put together a plan for the growth of the group and fed on the vision of what it was to become. Mike and I had seen it done before in other settings and with other groups and that sustained our vision. The definition of effective team synergy is when two in collaboration can “become three” and then Leigh Le Creux and many others joined in and have made it what it is today, a thriving business referral and idea exchange community!If we “envision the win” in detail it happens with greater ease. It’s not enough just to set a goal. It’s more important to play it out in the mind ahead of time the day before or morning before the appointment or event happens. There’s power in the rehearsal in the thought realm that helps “carry it out” fluidly and effortlessly in reality. Another building block of momentum is to be “focused, engaged and committed” in the moment. Simply “be” in the moment, not behind or ahead but “in”. It involves listening, absorbing, intent convergence of thought and action.
“Buying-in” is also important. If I invest in my company, enterprise or mission, monetarily, with my time or visually, I have a proprietary interest. That propriety reads through in my presentation, collaboration and enthusiasm for the product or service. What are your thoughts about the relationship between motivation and momentum. What do you feel are the building blocks of momentum?
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