"Experts" are predicting a horrible global economic climate for years to come!
They're saying economic growth is going to be non-existent for years to come! Are you buying into this? It's simply a choice on your part, but let me tell you what happened about 3 years ago in Canada for small businesses.
Travelling northward along the A1 in Eastern Queensland, enjoying the sunshine between banana plantations and cane fields, when I'm not in the rainforest with the wipers on, I'm accompanied by interview after interview on ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Last night, in the campground south of Innisfail, visiting a castle built by a Spaniard in the 1930s, I was commending ABC for its stories about Australia's history.
Today I've heard nothing but DOOM & GLOOM about the global economic situation ... and how HORRIBLE life's going to be for all ... for years!!!
3 years ago when the U.S. (and the rest of the world, supposedly) was going through a very "cold" economic climate I was coming upon two sorts of small business owners:
1. Those who bought into the fear-mongering, the gloom & doom; and
2. Those who made a decision to step into opportunities created by this fear-mongering, which they chose NOT to buy into.
You were probably in the latter group, or you may have chosen to go the way of several small business owners who, whether or not following my telephone or newsletter advice, "got a job".
One fellow in particular said to me: I just can't put my family through this anymore. It's been 6 years that I've been chasing this dream and one day I think I'm stepping into the success and the next day I see that what the media's saying is true. They've suffered long enough while I've been working so many hard, long hours.
And he got a job. So sad, really, after a 6-year investment. He had options, but he quit. Why? Because the media was all around him! Only because he chose to listen to it, though ... and to believe it.
On the other hand, we have people like Randy & Pearl who, for 2 of those years, held themselves back from taking their business out of their home. Why? Because they watched the news every day - and then the more they believed what they were hearing, the more frequently they watched the news. Pearl said: We became addicted to the fear we were feeling!
So, instead of moving their business out of the house, they moved their TV into the kitchen (figuratively) ... until they finally made a different decision and we started working together.
The 1st thing they did following our VIP Intensive coaching session was go on vacation. 2nd, they hired more support, and their business continued to grow while they went on to take another 5 trips, business fun and fun with friends, over the following 5 months - while they nearly tripled their profits, pretty much in those same 5 months!
And then there's this cabinet manufacturer who heard me say in a seminar nearly 2 years ago now that I never watch, read, nor listen to the news and when I hear discussions of "news stories" around me, I choose not to listen. Here's a tidbit in psychology for you:
What we do not actively reject - we passively accept.
So, this cabinet manufacturer who insists that a business owner MUST follow the news closely, and thereby discounted my "worth" as a business success coach, struggled on by himself ... but only for another 9 months. At that time it was all the Chinese's fault that his business closed and all of his employees were instantly unemployed.
Remember: When we point 1 finger at someone else, there are 3 pointing back at us.
On the other side of the coin is Gary, from southern California, who was very hard hit with the cold economic climate. He chose to be in the 2nd category, and one of those opportunities was investing in himself as an entrepreneur. Just 4 months into a small program with me, Gary announced in the tele-seminar, with everyone listening, that their area was again in an even colder economic climate and he was afraid he was going to have to let go of even more employees - his best!
Following my advice, which I've talked about in print & video in these newsletters numerous times, in the next week Gary had 2 lunches with A customers and received 4 jobs!!! His new challenge was that he needed more manpower! And that was while southern California was in a deep freeze!
And then there's an electrical contractor who has 2 people helping him in the field ... oops! He had 2 people helping him in the field ... and who told me that in order to try to keep his business alive he was going back to work and would do all the "business" work at nights and on weekends, to keep his guys working on the service side of it and his pay cheque as an employee would help keep the business alive.
Well, that plan didn't work. Why not? Because once we start shrinking, we keep on shrinking. It's inevitable. (Similarly, once we start growing, we keep on growing.)
And then there's Wayne who, in that time some 2 years ago, had already been working with me for more than 2 years when he said something like: The way I see it, Lynne, today's economic situation is an opportunity for me.
And take advantage of that opportunity he did! Without discussing this with Wayne - as I write this newsletter in a McDonald's just south of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, taking advantage of a rest-stop and free Wi-Fi - I won't share in which ways, exactly, Wayne's business has flourished ... thanks to the recent economic winter ... but suffice to say that his profits have more than tripled, his FUN has way more than quadrupled, and RETIREMENT ... on his terms? Coming along very nicely! (And he didn't even seize that opportunity with the electrical contractor I mention above, whose business Wayne might've purchased had he been in the same geographical area.)
Which camp are you in? It's simply a choice; and simply requires a DECISION. I was just saying to Nicole, at Paronella Park (with the castle), mere minutes ago:
The strongest characteristic of a successful person is that they make DECISIONS quickly.
Nicole's comment was: My boss says: If you have to think twice about it, don't bother.
I totally agree! Thinking twice is what I call 2nd guessing ... and that takes you from a great idea that speaks to you, to diluting it with all those emotions that get stirred in from all those "but what if"s and now you're unlikely to do whatever the heck it takes consistently & persistently to make it happen.
So, if you're one of those people who truly wants your business to flourish during every economic climate during your ownership of the business, making it saleable so that you have a very handsome retirement, then you'll want to be sure to keep your eyes peeled to these newsletters because I'm about to launch a gift to you:
Business Success Strategies Training
in a video series,
that's absolutely f.r.e.e
and all you have to do is click on some links,
give us some info so we can connect you to it and
watch it on your own computer.
And you can share the link with every business owner you know. That's how f.r.e.e it is!
This gift is the very same business success strategies training that I've been delivering to my clients since 2003 and it's going to be available to you very shortly. It's my way of giving back, because it's absolutely no cost whatsoever to you.
So, your exercise for today, from this newsletter:
1. Turn off the television and the radio and unsubscribe from the newspaper. You could go outside and have a snooze in a hammock or play board games with your children.
2. Actively REJECT everything you hear that will negatively affect the growth of your business.
3. Mark in your agenda to keep your eyes peeled for my upcoming newsletters so you can take advantage of this no-cost, ie. f.r.e.e. business success strategies training - the very training that's been helping several hundreds of small business owners to TRIPLE their profits, QUADRUPLE their FUN and build RETIREMENT ... on their terms!
Until then, go forth and PROSPER ... and have a helluva lotta FUN doin' it!
Promising you, too,
MORE PROFIT
TONS MORE FUN
RETIREMENT ... on your terms!
'Cause that's what it's all about.
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