Suppleness of mind enables you to have ‘double focus’ to focus on the big picture and detail at the same time. Concurrent views enable all facets to be included which can give us a huge advantage in achieving our personal or professional goals or aspirations. Below are 9 ‘C’ ways to encourage your thinking to be more supple: Core values Confirm continuity Compete Change the game Connect and collaborate Communication counts Costs and credit Create conviction Care for yourself and care for others Core Values - Being clear what our personal values are enables us to also determine what our business core values are; working on both of these together will help us personally which in turn will help us stand out more in our business Confirm continuity – Considering what marketing or promotion we want to do for our business is important, however, the key thing is consistency; if
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Occasionally we may feel that we are fire-fighting, never getting out of the ‘bit’, always working IN the business on admin and operational aspects, never having the time to consider the longer-term goals and be creative considering our vision and direction for our life or business. Sometimes it’s about mindset in that we focus on the problems rather than the solutions. Being solution-focused creates positivity and productivity and considering the opportunities rather than the threats, focusing on ourselves and what we can do to change rather than comparing with others and feeling we ‘should be doing better’. Being positive to attract what you want rather than what you don’t want means you will weather any storm, feel less fearful and create action to create your dream and fulfil your vision. If you can visualise on what you want, take action to achieve your goals you will find that you are
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Wouldn’t it just be perfect if we could make our dreams come true? If when we woke up in the morning having had the most wonderful dream that we’d done the most amazing things, we couldn’t just put all those wonderful plans in place and make things happen! Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that does it? We wake up to reality and realise that there are things that will probably hinder or prevent us from achieving our dreams i.e. it’s the wrong time, the wrong place etc. We know we only have one life, and whilst it’s sensible to be cautious, if we don’t take chances and aim for the stars, we may end up doing nothing and of course feeling a failure. It’s interesting that if we speak of our plans and dreams, people might say that sounds awesome and it’s a great idea and we should do it.
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Procrastination as we know is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline. This may be ‘just what we do’ i.e. this is our normal in that we habitually delay starting or finishing a task despite knowing this may have negative consequences. Often these tasks or actions are those which we don’t want to do, or don’t like to do, and so we avoid them, sometimes not even starting them, or we start and don’t finish. This doesn’t create action. This can make us feel we’ve failed or not achieved. This can be de-motivating. This also means we won’t achieve our goals or make us feel good. We certainly won’t feel productive. So how can we avoid the above and kick the procrastination out the door? The key, as I see it is, we need to put a stake in the ground, metaphorically
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We have this ideal and idea that when we set up, own and run our own business we are our own boss, don’t need to answer to anyone other than ourselves. We can be flexible when we work, what we do, how we do it. We aren’t accountable to anyone! How fantastic is that? But, is it? Fantastic that is? Reality tells us that whilst all the above is true, we can often lack setting directions, key performance indicators for us to measure our progress. We often drift to those pieces of work we like and let those dreaded distractions pull us away from what we need to do to drive our business forward. Often, we need some help to achieve this: Business Owners Support Solutions to give you the Success Factor When you’re running a business, it can be hard to manage your work / life balance in the
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Whether we like it or not we can get stuck in a certain mindset which isn’t helpful for us as an individual or in our business. How do we get ‘stuck’ and how do we get ‘unstuck’? It’s going to be different if we are talking about ourselves personally or in business or work or whether we are talking about our business or organisation. For us individually: Firstly, we need to be aware that what our mindset is before being able to change it and want to change it to something better than where we are. Then we need to have a plan on how we can go about this, so we do achieve it. Lastly, we need to find a way to keep us on this track and not slip back into our old ways. Steps to work through to shift mindsets: Consider and note our patterns, certain ways
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There are three key reasons why businesses struggle. As a business owner it's important for us to know what these are so we can see the sign of our business starting to go in the wrong direction. Reason 1: Jack of All Trades Just because we've set up a business or running a business doesn't mean we have all the skills and attributes for everything that is required. Of course, when we're starting out, we need to do things ourselves, but at what cost?We need to seek guidance, help and support to advise us on areas we know little or nothing about, the 'don't know what you don't knows'. When we do this, we can start making informed decisions at the right time. This might require a cost in terms of investment in a business coaching for example, however, the Return on Investment (ROI) can often be immeasurable if you
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We all seem to be dealing with so much right now. We seem to have so much to consider and look after, our family, health, job or business, finances, goals and much more. Sometimes it can all feel just too much, and we find ourselves stressed and overwhelmed and noticing problems or mistakes happening more often, our motivation starts to dwindle, our energy levels reduce and then our sleep gets affected; it’s just a vicious cycle. Let’s look at the possible cause and symptoms of ourselves and our business. Cause – we know that the cause of something is our signal to do something, take action to rectify a problem, where we need to set time aside to do this.  Symptom – this is an indication of something that is wrong, or not right, it might start with a feeling. Whether this is a condition of yourself or your business,
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I recently came across the quote below and loved the analogy used. Using analogies are helpful as they draw us an image or a vision of how we see things or could see things. The image or picture helps us understand them more easily and they are more memorable. “An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming” The Law of Attraction For me, this image portrays that of always seeing an opportunity where there is a challenge, seeing every setback as a chance to reconsider how we might do things differently. Mindset plays a huge part in our lives and can set us off in a positive or negative direction, it can lift us up and drop us down, sometimes both in the same
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Here we are back at Levels Two and Three in New Zealand. Somewhere we hoped we’d never be again, but we are. For some, this is a real blow, unexpected, perhaps unprepared. For others, it’s a time to put into place what we spent time preparing for during lockdown in terms of business continuity and business disruption. Either ways, it’s tough isn’t it, and during tough times the tough need to get going as the song goes. We need to consider some steps and strategies to help us, our businesses and our teams through yet another transition period. Below are some strategies which you might consider using personally, or in your business, or for you, your business and your team, to help motivate, inspire and achieve great results. Recognition: Designed to inspire, unify and value our teams to retain top performance to gain the best results. Recognising our team members
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