The latest news from Mike Foster, The Entrepreneurs Mentor - May 2023

How's the 4 day weeks going?!

May is a month that employees love and can often frustrate business owners!

In this month's update, as always I hope you find some useful information to help you?start, develop, scale or grow your own business.?

Mike

In this months news:

• My latest Blogs in Summary
• Another 'Habit Maker'?workshop with Sara Southey
• Links to my latest short video snippets
• Details of my?New Book available in Hardback, Paperback on on Kindle via Amazon
• Free resources to help you develop your business

A selection of my recent Blogs

Is your business contributing to your reason why?

Are your personal and business goals aligned, and is your business contributing to your overarching reason why? These are two key questions I’ve been looking at with my clients lately.

The alignment of what you do in your business to your personal goals in my opinion sparks your motivation whilst also fuelling the right high payoff activities you need to execute.

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Prioritise yourself so you can support others

Must you look after yourself, give yourself the encouragement, self-care and rest that you need so that you can support others with all the vitality and energy you have??And that includes, family, offspring, loved ones, clients, customers, suppliers and business friends.

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10 ways to cope with entrepreneurial stress

First off we need to be aware of what stress is and where it’s coming from.

Is it a bad day perhaps where you didn't get everything go your own way, or when someone didn't hear you?

From my experience of working with business owners I find entrepreneurial stress is often linked to our business objectives and our personal aspirations as well as our expectations of ourselves and others.

In the last article, ‘Stress Awareness Month’, we looked at recognising the sources of our stress. In this article we’ll go through some coping strategies that I’ve found have worked in the past.

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Join us on 13th June?for this 'Habit Maker'?event

If we want something different personally, or professionally, then something must change. To change, we need to adapt our behaviours, fuel our motivation, and create new habits.

Sara Southey and I?will be sharing our experience, knowledge and expertise that has helped many other individuals to create new habits, maintain them and make the desired change..

More details and tickets available on Eventbrite at?https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habit-maker-tickets-630733760657

My Latest?Short Video Snippets

Each video snippet of 2-3 mins is a thought to help you in the development of your own business.

Here's a few from recent weeks that you may have missed:

1. The Power of Small Improvements
2. There is one person you will never impress
3. Vanity Metrics or not?
4. How do you do it different

You can view all my video snippets (over?180) on my YouTube channel at?https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzpP1GPKRp6mbW2rfzxCoNkSrViJ2q_m-

My New Book

105 Ways to Accelerate Your Business Success

Fuel your entrepreneuial journey: Improve, Innovate and Adapt

Available in Hardback, Paperback and Kindle via Amazon here

Business owners understand the technical work of their business, hence why they had the confident to start a business. However, have you ever wondered why some businesses move towards “success” quicker than others? Is it the founder? Is it the team? Is it the business model? Is it the advisers? Or is it luck?

Many business owners face similar frustrations when they are looking to improve their business or when they are observing others. Some even look for the golden bullet that does not exist!

Unusually, this book will not tell you what “success” looks like as this has to be defined by the individual or the organisation, but it will share thoughts, tips and tools to help you accelerate your journey towards your goals and objectives.

The content will fuel your thoughts and help you improve, innovate and adapt your business so that you enjoy the “success” your hard work deserves.

By sharing 105 practical articles, this book will cover keys areas for any business including:

• Creating the foundation for Business Improvement
• Establishing your vision, purpose and why
• Effective planning for the delivery of your goals
• Ways to simplify your planning
• Making the best use of your valuable time
• Marketing that pulls your customers towards you with interest
• How to convert your prospects to paying customers with effective sales
• Understanding the numbers to make your business really work
• Delivering a service experience with operational excellence that creates your value
• Hiring and retaining the productive talent that will help you develop your business
• Introducing behaviours to create new habits that support your desired change
• Creating systems that work for your business processes

?Available via Amazon here

Each month the royalies and profits will be donated to a charity.

During May the donation will be to Oxfordshire Mind

Free Resources

My resources include my:

• YouTube channel with short video 'snippet' vlogs and interviews with trusted experts
• Podcast
• Blogs
• Knowledge base
• App
• Webinar - another new webinar coming soon

I also offer 4 downloadable eBooks.

More at?https://mailchi.mp/7958f78cd5ef/entrepreneursmentor_ebooks

All designed to?help you start, develop or grow your own business.

I do hope they help you in some way.