So most successful businesses have business plans right? The best in business update and modify their plan according to changes in the economy or as they add new services or products, even when certain milestones are attained.
What about your life? Is it a endless-cycle of Sunday-to-Saturday with things you'd like to work towards, dreams you'd love to pursue stuck in the ether of "someday, sometime"? Month after month, season changing into the next, kids growing, bills getting paid, food bought prepared, on and on with regularity...Ho-hum dee-dum?
Time to consider working on a Life Plan. I've found that going through the process in preparing your Lifeplan can be just as beneficial as a company working on their business plan. Developing your vision, outcomes, disciplines, and so on can enable you to really put some targets, short-medium-long-term milestones, and help you to set the non-negotiable disciplines.
If you're interested in finding out more about the process, or are curious of what all this would entail with Phero Consulting Group, please drop me a line. I've seen many people engage their dreams and goals, and really get a positive-boost from the Life-plan development process. Some find it necessary and encouraging to review there own on a daily basis as they plan out there day.
~Ethan
Monday, February 21, 2011
Easy or Better?
As a coach I am often in pursuit of more education/learning/information that can be helpful or aid when I am working with a client. As I set up this blog to share these insights, here's another...
In choices you make, do you choose "EASY" over "BETTER"? Often our mode and mood can have us in a hurry, and as a dad sometimes looking after my boys "easy" is far too easy to pass up sometimes. In some cases, waiting and doing the "better" over the quick (dirty?) "easy" can pay-off much sweeter in the end.
An "Easy" I took advantage of over the weekend went like this. With the help of my aforementioned sons we went about the task of cleaning Dauphinee (my wife's car). While my youngest considered playing far more important, my older boy went to it with the shop-vac with gusto on the floors and upholstery. When it came to washing the outside, here's where the "easy" took pole-position in front of "better". As it was a slightly chilly and quite windy day, hand-washing the car wasn't a preferable way to go about cleaning the car. For less than $10 we did the "easier", and the boys enjoyed the time in the car with my as the "robot" touchless car-wash did it's thing. When we got back home, and got the boys inside for some lunch I took a few minutes to look over the job that "neato" robot did. In a nutshell: Crap-tacular! I needed to re-washed the windows, wipe off some of the grime it missed along the bottom of the doors, and so on. Naturally a much better job would have been done if I'd done it all by hand (and even with the waxing it'd be cheaper!).
This is just one minor (real-life) example of the "better" being side-stepped for "easy". How many business, or even more-major personal decisions have been blown when you chose "easy" over "better"?
~E
In choices you make, do you choose "EASY" over "BETTER"? Often our mode and mood can have us in a hurry, and as a dad sometimes looking after my boys "easy" is far too easy to pass up sometimes. In some cases, waiting and doing the "better" over the quick (dirty?) "easy" can pay-off much sweeter in the end.
An "Easy" I took advantage of over the weekend went like this. With the help of my aforementioned sons we went about the task of cleaning Dauphinee (my wife's car). While my youngest considered playing far more important, my older boy went to it with the shop-vac with gusto on the floors and upholstery. When it came to washing the outside, here's where the "easy" took pole-position in front of "better". As it was a slightly chilly and quite windy day, hand-washing the car wasn't a preferable way to go about cleaning the car. For less than $10 we did the "easier", and the boys enjoyed the time in the car with my as the "robot" touchless car-wash did it's thing. When we got back home, and got the boys inside for some lunch I took a few minutes to look over the job that "neato" robot did. In a nutshell: Crap-tacular! I needed to re-washed the windows, wipe off some of the grime it missed along the bottom of the doors, and so on. Naturally a much better job would have been done if I'd done it all by hand (and even with the waxing it'd be cheaper!).
This is just one minor (real-life) example of the "better" being side-stepped for "easy". How many business, or even more-major personal decisions have been blown when you chose "easy" over "better"?
~E
Primary Company Attitudes...
So, as I do, I'm reading another business book and stumbled upon something I thought was worth spreading around. This is keen-stuff for you if you're one who owns or manages a business, and likewise could be profitable to consider if you're just a "regular joe" with a dream of starting a business some day. The book I'm reading today is Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Sir Richard Branson (yes, the Virgin guy). So, despite linking the book, this post isn't directly related to the book, but something I read in it about another airline I admire, and the founder's (Herb Kelleher) "primary attitude" about the culture the company aimed to keep. I share this information because it seems to me one of the best lists to imitate for one's own business::
1. Employees are number one. The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers.
2. Think small to grow big.
3. Manage in the good times for the bad times.
4. Irreverence is OK.
5. It's OK to be yourself.
6. Have fun at work.
7. Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.
8. Think of the company as a service organization that happens to be in the _____ business. (Airline is in the blank on the original, left blank to describe your business)
9. Do whatever it takes.
10. Always practice the Golden Rule, internally and externally.
Now, I know there are many other things one could add or substitute on their own version of that list. Just the same there are probably other lists out there that make sense, and are probably more applicable to your particular business in regards to the culture of the company.
All in all, I have felt pretty blessed that the Albuquerque Sunport is a hub (although minor) for Southwest, as when I need to get on the the "bus with wings" at least I can count on the steward-team to embrace #4, 5, 6, &10.
~E
1. Employees are number one. The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers.
2. Think small to grow big.
3. Manage in the good times for the bad times.
4. Irreverence is OK.
5. It's OK to be yourself.
6. Have fun at work.
7. Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.
8. Think of the company as a service organization that happens to be in the _____ business. (Airline is in the blank on the original, left blank to describe your business)
9. Do whatever it takes.
10. Always practice the Golden Rule, internally and externally.
Now, I know there are many other things one could add or substitute on their own version of that list. Just the same there are probably other lists out there that make sense, and are probably more applicable to your particular business in regards to the culture of the company.
All in all, I have felt pretty blessed that the Albuquerque Sunport is a hub (although minor) for Southwest, as when I need to get on the the "bus with wings" at least I can count on the steward-team to embrace #4, 5, 6, &10.
~E
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