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With the end of the year approaching, we inevitably look at our journey through 2022, acknowledging what has, or has not, gone well. We should especially use this time to acknowledge and celebrate our successes, something businesspeople are often not good at. We also need to reflect on 2023 and use that to understand the difference between two questions. What do I want? And what do I need?
Are you a business owner? Congratulations! Owning a business can be an exciting experience, and it can also be challenging. With freedom and time being some of the main challenges. However, with careful time management and efficient use of your time, you’ll be able to make the most out of the opportunities that come with being an entrepreneur.
Successful business networking is built on referrals. Some of the big networking organisations use phrases like “meet, like know, trust,” and “givers gain”. They do this to prompt their members to think about finding referral opportunities based on relationshipsrather than guesswork.
There is a huge choice of places and ways to network these days. Online, in person, hybrid, and social.
The 80-20 rule, otherwise known as the Pareto Principle, states that 80% of outcomes, or outputs, result from 20% of inputs. My experience is that our tendency as business owners is to look for new business from new clients. The 80-20 rule suggests that as we are likely to win 80% of our business from 20% of our clients. This saves time and energy.
Having been a Counsellor for over twenty years I found many people were coming to me with issues that related more to their businesses. So in order to support my clients properly I trained as a business coach, and I have now been supporting mentoring and coaching businesses for nearly 10 years, and have gone on to develop my skills as a life coach.
I have been working with clients as a counsellor and coach since 1999. I have found through talking to hundreds of people over that time is that, whatever success looks like to them, those who live happier more fulfilled lives are those who follow their intuition.
I first visited the Lake District over 30 years ago. My friend Sandra and I thought we would go up for a long weekend; that weekend it rained cats and dogs. We had driven up from Guildford in Surrey where the rain was gentle and posh and the rain in the Lakes was heavy and industrial.
Check out this great article on Mindfulness as a Management Technique from Jim Butcher in the Harvard Business Review, and how it’s been in use since at least the 1970s.
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