Time Marches On

You can’t “manage” time.  It keeps going at the same rate and you have the same quantity as you did yesterday, and as everyone else does.  

What you can manage is priorities; what you are doing with your time, and what you are not doing.

What are your priorities?

Why Some Successful People Aren't Happy

This may be the most important message some entrepreneurs ever read.

Some people have achieved a lot, but still aren’t happy. This is because they compare themselves to their ideal (life, business, accomplishments). They are always reaching, and when they get it, they reach for more. This is a great attitude to keep you moving forward, but in thinking about it all each day and determining how happy you should be, it doesn’t work.

Instead, compare yourself to WHERE YOU STARTED.  How does it feel to be here and have accomplished this much in relation to where you came from?  That’s what matters.

In thinking of it this way, it’s easy to be happy.

The Drilling Innovation Dividend

How much money will your family save this year because of lower gas prices?

How much will your company save?

What effect will this have on consumer spending on other things?

What effect will it have on your bottom line?

What effect will it have on Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other countries who have less free people/markets and less innovation and have developed little else to offer the world?

Mistakes in Business Cost $

What mistakes are you making, or did you make last year? How much do you reckon these mistakes cost you?  Really, what was the cost in dollars?

Are you going to repeat these mistakes this year?

Hobbies are not necessarily businesses

Some passions are not businesses, and best remain a hobby.

There's only one problem.

For entrepreneurs – there really is only one business problem.  

You.

With the right changes to you, your other problems go away.

Confident Salespeople

The objective of training salespeople is to give them the confidence that they have a winning hand when they are in front of a customer and up against the competition.

Do your salespeople feel they have the winning hand?

A bigger difference

Your company is rewarded for how much of a difference you make for how many people.

How can your organization affect more people more meaningfully?

"Great Devotion"

If a leader shows great devotion, unwavering commitment, and great care for the organization, the customers, the cause and the future of it, team members will notice and follow.

Are you “all in”?

Think long term

If you make long term decisions, your people know it.  

If you make short term decisions, your people know it, and they will, too.

Do you want your employees making short term or long term decisions?

What example are you setting?