Passion inspires innovation and creates energy. It’s only when you are fully engaged that you can pass along that feeling to your customers. If you can’t feel it, it’s unlikely that they will either. In today’s super-charged business climate, there’s a good chance that no business model will produce the results you’re looking for if you’re just going through the motions - doing the same old things the same old way.
Energy begets energy...
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Drew is a Business Coach, Strategist, Speaker and Author.For details visit www.drewsimmie.com Follow him on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn. If you would like to, plesae feel free to comment at info@drewsimmie.com.
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( 3.2 / 17 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.In most major cities there is an area given over to young street performers, wannabe musicians and singers, each one earnestly seeking their 15 seconds of fame.
In Toronto, it is the Dundas Square, just in front of a major shopping plaza. Where else?!
Walking into the square the other day after meeting a client for lunch, I came across a young guy, standing next to a portable speaker attached with a long black cord to a hand held micro phone into which he was valiantly belting out a song. He wasn’t very good, but at least he was out there.
As I walked by, a young woman who had been standing in front of him, stepped forward and made a comment. I couldn’t hear what she said, but I smiled when I clearly heard him reply, “I’m just trying to be different!”
Aren’t we all? But it’s not easy. Regardless of the business, competition is tough. Everyone’s trying to standout from the crowd.
As we head into a new fall season and the game begins in earnest, success will come to those who show up every day, aware of their strenghts and what makes them different.
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Drew is a Business Coach, Strategist, Speaker and Author. For details visit www.drewsimmie.com Follow him on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn. If you would like to, he welcomes your comments at info@drewsimmie.com.
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( 3.2 / 18 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.“Inaction breeds doubts and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Get out and get busy.” Dale Carnegie.
Many of us have experienced occasions when we silently thought that we would do something if only we believed it was going to work or that it was the right thing to do, but then we backed away, afraid to try. We just weren’t sure…
There’s nothing sure in life. There are no guarantees that we will always be successful when are trying something new. When we step back from something we know we’re capable of, what we’re really doing is shrinking from our responsibilities and hiding from our true gifts and talents.
We were unwilling to risk it. “Better the devil we know than the one we don’t goes the old expression. We much prefer things and situations over which we have control and that are predictable. We have bought into the falsehood that says we are safer that way.
When we do that, though, we’re selling ourselves short. We’re accepting less.
The only way to get over the fear of doing something is to do the thing we fear and keeping on doing it until we don’t fear anymore.
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Drew is a Business Coach, Strategist, Speaker and Author.For details visit www.drewsimmie.com Follow him on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn. If you would like to, I invite you comment at info@drewsimmie.com.
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There was a thought-provoking piece in the Financial Times this past weekend. It was an interview with Adam Fergusson, reviewing a book he wrote 35 years ago – a history of hyperinflation in 1920’s Weimar Germany.
When Money Dies is an account of Germany’s economic collapse after World War I. The situation was so bad that money was measured by the wheel barrels full. The money wasn’t real anymore.
People deal with real money. As the old song goes, “Money makes the world go around.”
It’s not just the question of making it but managing it, centered not on how much you earn, but how much you spend. After the lessons learned over the past couple of years, frugality is back in fashion. For many, the days of free-wheeling spending are over. Keeping a tight rein on expenses is critical. That means buying what we need, not what we would like to have and looking for ways to reuse and recycle. Not a new concept. Our grandparents knew all about it and people in many countries of the world have always lived that way.
The key is to save where you can and spend wisely when you must.
“The most efficient way to spend money is to spend your own,” said Milton Friedman. “The least efficient way is to spend other people’s.”
He would be the first to acknowledge that there is no free lunch.
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Drew is a Business Coach, Strategist, Speaker and Author.For details visit www.drewsimmie.com Follow him on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn. If you would like to, I invite you comment at info@drewsimmie.com.
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Each of us has a set of values by which we do our best to live.Life being what it is, from time to time, these values are tested. Just when we think we have nailed it we are confronted with unexpected challenges. Someone or something throws us a curve ball and we’re blindsided. Then, too, they're events over which we have absolutely no control.
It’s at times like these, when our courage is thin, that we get out our compass and look for our true north.
Whether in personal relationships or in business, there are times when we have to listen to that little voice again, reminding us who we are...
Maintaining our integrity together with our sense of purpose forces us to stretch and grow. In the process we strengthen our character and resolve.
Doing things right rather than doing the right things is not always easy.
But hey, who said it was going to be easy?
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