It’s My Way!

This Weeks Summary:

Learned: Choose your way

Planning: Don’t be a lazy planner

Business idea: Pinecone picker

Vet Opp: Enjoy Memorial Day

I met: Missed opportunity, found!

Stoic Quote of the Week

It is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among the many.

-Seneca

What I learned this week:

I’ve worked with several coaches, hired marketers and implementers, and attended conferences on growing the business. I’ve spent lots of money on all these aspects, and all of them have provided me with an education and different approaches to building the business. I’ll also throw in some mentors and friends who offer advice and insight. I’ve truly learned through all these interactions that there is only one way to grow my business and myself. That is my way. I don’t say that in a narcissistic or arrogant fashion. It is the reality. The steps that Tony Robbins, Marshall Goldsmith, and Bill Gates took to discover their success are not the same path I can take. The beauty of it is that I control my path and my purpose. I can copy word for word and action for action what someone else has done, and it will not work for me. It is impossible because I am not that person, and it is not the same time or environment. When you realize that no matter how hard you try, you cannot do it the way they did. You can only do it your way. This is something I go over with every new client during our onboarding. I can tell you the answer, but the answer is my answer. My job is to help you determine your answer, how you want to approach the problem, and how you want to solve it. I share my thoughts and insights, but, in the end, it is the client’s actions that will create the solution that works for them. I am no different. My job is to take all the information I gain from all the experts I speak with and read about and create my path in my own way. Those experts allow me to learn from their successes and mistakes, and because of their efforts, I can create more success for myself and my business, my way.

Planning thought of the week:

It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but people still do it. They pull an old plan off the shelf, change the dates and names, and say, here we go! Using an old plan is an excellent idea because it gives you a jump start. But don’t be lazy and do a find a replace for the names and dates and call it good. You are screwing yourself and your team when you do that. Use an old plan as a point of reference. Then, build a new plan to follow.

Business idea I heard about or thought of:

If you live in the Black Forest near me, then you are experiencing the same problem we are. A plague of pinecones! Ms. Suzanne and I spent a few hours doing some of our springtime chore of pine needle mitigation. We looked back at the area we had just finished raking and bagging, and there were ten more pinecones on the ground in a 15x30 ft area! AUUGGGHH!!!!

To make matters worse, I see hundreds more pinecones when I look at the trees! We have what appears to be an infinite supply of these little thorny brown balls. I saw my neighbors picking up pinecones with a grabber. The thing used to pick things off the ground when you can’t bend over. That gave me an idea. Why not plop them up instead of grabbing one and dropping it in the bucket? There is a golf gadget used to pick up golf balls without bending over, and it has a holding bag. That same principle can work for pinecones. It has a 24-inch tube with a spring at the bottom that keeps the balls from falling out the bottom. At the top, there is a bag with a zipper to empty all the balls back out. On top of the bag is a handle. You walk around picking up 100s of golf balls. Then you can store them in the bag or dump them. The same design will work for pinecones. It’s either that device or some high schoolers who don’t mind squatting down or bending over to pick up with hundreds of thousands of pinecones we have in the yard.

Veteran opportunity of the week:

Happy Memorial Day. Always a weird phrase to say. We want to enjoy Memorial Day because the men who died that we remember on Memorial Day would want us to have a happy day. I don’t know one man who made the ultimate sacrifice and would say, “Be sad for me today.” Their sacrifice was so we, the remaining of us alive today, can enjoy the day. Enjoy our friends and family and enjoy being American. Remember those men and say a thank you to them as you enjoy your life.

Someone I met this week:

I am one of those people who hates to be late, and I hate missing appointments and commitments. This means that when someone reverses that to me, it really irritates me. I’m sure part of it is my upbringing, and a huge part was my time in the Army. When I have a no-show for a call or an in-person meeting, I allow myself to be pissed and feel sad about the missed opportunities. Then, I shift gears because I want to. Being sad and pissed off does no one any good. When I shift gears, I do what I did last night: I grab another tasty beer and enjoy some alone time with a bunch of strangers at the brewery. If I continue to waller in my sorrow and disappointment that beer doesn’t taste as good, nor is the guy sitting next to me as nice and friendly. When it happens when I’m in the office, it gives me a chance to take another walk and redirect my thoughts on something I want to accomplish. It is even an opportunity to call someone I wasn’t going to have time to call. Weirdly, I want to thank you for missing our appointment because it reminded me of how precious our time is.

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