What are you doing to create value? I’m sure you’ve heard, as I have, that business is all about creating value for those around you. I recently saw a post by Robin Sharma on five points to protect your company. The fifth point he made was: Become Obsessed with Value Creation. The point says “This is not some pie in the sky idea. It’s a hard hitting business growth tactic. Obsess over how you can add more value to more people and the revenues will take care of themselves.”
My success coach, Steve D’Annunzio, talks about value from 2 points of view: subjective and contextual. He says that “we are moving out of the age of information and moving into an age of context” and “that no truth exists without context”.
As an entrepreneur, you are never very far from your business. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, it’s always with you, slipping into your consciousness. You might be in the shower, lounging on the deck, on an airplane with everyone around you snoozing or out on the lake….your mind will still be spinning on the latest issue or the next big opportunity. When you’re passionate about what you do, you have an advantage because you’re energized and motivated to give it the extra thought that helps keep you ahead of the game.
ion, and explained that in order for people to give you money, you must offer them something of value that makes them want to pull out the green.
This isn’t limited to time and energy, but extends to reaching goals and running a business. How many goals can you have and still make sure you can reach them all? We try to limit our company quarterly goals to just 3 if they are somewhat large so that we retain enough time and energy to achieve them. I have run multiple businesses at once, only to find that the time and thought required to run them just distracted me and I lost focus.
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