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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Just Do It!

The illustration in the book “The Secret” of the way you handle a journey sticks in my mind. If you are embarking on a road trip to New York City, commencing in Los Angeles, you don’t need to know the detail of the journey. Just start driving, the “way” to get from A to B will unfold as you go. The visual image I had in my mind was of a car, travelling at night, its headlights lighting up the first 100m. Then once you pass that landmark, the next 100m is lit up, and so on and so on until you reach your destination.
It is the same with a new venture or startup business. You may have an idea. But you may not know exactly how to get to the final destination of where you want to go with the idea. Just start. The “way” will unfold as you go. This has worked for me in several businesses. Too many people sit around, waiting for everything to be “perfect” before they start. Very often they never actually get the business going, because life although it can get very close to perfect, will never BE perfect this side of eternity!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Write a Detailed Plan for Your Business


Write a detailed plan and be very specific. What I am talking about is not the official “Business Plan” that people sometimes ask for, full of words that are just copied from someone else’s idea off the internet. This must come from the heart. Visualise the success you desire. This becomes the blueprint of your future and amazing things will start to happen to cause your dream and your vision to manifest. I have found that by writing these things down, it forces me to focus on the specific tasks that I need to do daily, monthly and annually to achieve the end result. This focus also causes me to attract into my life the things, people and resources of energy, time, finances and materials that are necessary for the fulfillment of that vision and that goal. I have very specific goals for Beautiful Bracelets and already these things are happening to enable fulfilment of the dream.

“Where there is no vision the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18) Where there is no goal you will drift aimlessly and I really don’t believe a business can survive long term or prosper without one.