3 Snaps, 2 Crackles And 1 Pop!

It Is Time You Celebrate In Your Business Affairs

Revelations appear in time to every person who operates a business model.  It does not matter if you are building a simple blog, working in a brick and mortar setting or managing a website that offers products or services to customers.  Sooner or later, you will have moments occur that will deliver some kind of great revelation in your thinking process.  Those revelation moments are usually hard to understand and even more difficult to accept.  They will rub up against your normal patterns of thinking.  That is why most really good revelations come packaged as a surprise.  They jolt us into counter-directional patterns of thinking.  They are the 'ah-ha' moments we can talk about for a long time.

I actually like 'ah-ha' moments.  I am always looking to find the next one.  And to make matters worse, they rarely come from me.

For the sake of simplicity, let's call those moments of revelation as "snap" moments.

"Snap" is when you get a head jerk revelation about something you thought was otherwise.  We need to talk about three really important anchors you will discover in every business that may require major "snap" moments to help you to create healthy new changes in the way you are doing things.  Accepting these "snap" moments will begin your first steps to becoming a better business model.  You will discover in every business a series of moments that will lend a helping hand to expose important opportunities for creating profitable change.  Unfortunately, there are three big anchors you need to address in order to allow your business the ability to promote the value of these "ah-ha" moments.  The three anchors are like parasites that link onto your business affairs trying to suck the life out of your ability to succeed.

Three Snaps, Two Crackles, One Pop

These three "snap" moments must be permitted to exist if you plan on having a profitable business.  The first "snap" moment has already been described in the above paragraphs.  I suspect nearly everyone reading this post missed it.  Some may even challenge themselves to go back to the upper paragraphs to see if they can discover the first "snap" moment hidden inside.  They are wired to go back and check it out prior to reading forward to discover what they missed.  They will accept their internal search as a challenge.  Others may try to skip forward to see if what they missed is easily prepared for them in the coming notes.  You each know who you are and how you are wired.  The real trick is not how you are wired, but remains in the discovery of what is true.  It really does not matter how you arrive, just find and accept the truth.

Do Not Miss This Target

Missing the first "snap" moment at this point is proof to how difficult "ah-ha" moments are to recognize.  They come in very disguised packages.  Some "ah-ha" moments need to whack us on the side of the head to get through.  That is why failure becomes such a great teacher.  Through failure we finally receive the true value of the "ah-ha" efforts laid in our paths.  Just in case you have not yet discovered the cost of these kinds of hard knock lessons, they are very expensive.

We people have a neatly arranged perspective about ourselves that interferes with our ability to see new things differently.  We can actually read about the "how-to's" of what we need to do to improve our chances for winning and pass over the number one anchor we drag along that keeps us from making it happen.  Go re-read the post on this blog about the "Villain."  You will find your first villain in the mirror.  It is natural for us to carry within our thoughts a battery of energy working to protect the things we know and do.  This process is very important to our survival.  It is also a process very necessary for helping us maintain the course that is pointed to successful business management.  We need to have some character flaws like this to help protect us from the world of negative impacts.

Beware Of Warm And Fuzzy Notions...

The first "snap" is the one in which you begin the search for finding ways to make your business work better.  You have decided to gather information that makes sense to you so you can incorporate that sensibility into your fold of business management.  Heres' the first "snap."  As you search you will select the information that makes sense to you.  You are reading to find answers in an effort to find what sounds good to you.  If that is the case, you already know what you are searching to employ.  Good luck with that one.  It sounds as if your business model will get to do a whole bunch more of what you are already doing.  So why are you searching?  You are not really searching for new methods of directional change.  You are likely searching for something that you understand and are willing to accept.  This kind of approach will run against how you operate successfully.  You need to be jolted out of how you are commonly thinking.  You need to remove yourself from the equation of answer searching.  It is never about you.  It is always about how well your business is doing.  Remove you from the equation.  That is known as the first "crackle."  Get you out of the picture.  Your business is not about you...unless you want to place serious limitations on your long term success.

Let us "crackle" you out of the equation.  Long term success is never about what you get, what you receive, what you do, what you believe, nor about who you are!  Nobody cares!  This may not be an "ah-ha" moment to any of you, but you will find that moment in your path somewhere.  Accept it and get to the next benchmark for success.  Let us go to the next "snap."  For those of you who are not ready to accept this truth...we will see you later.

I See Him In My Mirror

For those who are ready for the next "snap" lesson...go back to read the "Villain" post in this blog.  We need to accept ourselves as the true villain to our success.  We would much rather blame it on the recession, but the truth is the truth...many businesses do very well in a recession.  We just sold one of our business retail models in the third highest state of unemployment in America, in the highest unemployed county for that state, in the worst economy we can remember.  Sold to a buyer for cash at a worth three times its value.  These conditions and numbers are real.  Why is that?  Change how you think.

Pay attention to the things you do not know and have not accepted as being important.  This is "snap" number two.  We give up way too much energy and effort to the things we know.  We accept way too much of the things we can prove before we do them.  We model all of our decisions around the things we can define pragmatically.  We fill our buckets of ideas with 'make sense' justifications...only to end up like everyone else.  Go the other way.  Be relevant, but be different.  Be relevant in your thinking, but be different in the treatment of your thoughts.  Trust more in the truths of the laws of compensation. 

If you do not know or honor these laws, get closer to them.  Learn how to trust in their invisible nature.  This is the number two "crackle."  Google the law of compensation and begin to practice what it preaches.  I was helping a businessman recently at his office and needed to go online to show him a site I thought was relevant to our discussion.  I used his computer in his office to find the site.  As I was standing in his office, we could not get online.  His 'wireless' connection was offline, disabled.  As we negotiated through his computer to find out why, I discovered he had dropped his wireless provider and was using a restaurant next door for his wireless connections.  He said he could not afford his connection service and the one next door was open and free.  People, people...people.  This violation of the laws of compensation will only destroy his chances for succeeding in business.  I do not care how smart or how hard he tries.  He will fail.  Get to know these truths and accept them.  This is the second "crackle" you need to employ.  It is also the entryway into the third "snap."

Free Is Not Really Free.

The third "snap"...go back and start over.  Clean up the messes of this nature in your business affairs.  They are quietly sabotaging your efforts to succeed in a big way.  And they are doing it with or without your acceptance, belief, or understanding.  These laws are sovereign and do not need your approval to do their work.  They work just fine without your approval.  Flush this truth and refuse to accept them and they will continue to win by destroying your victory chances.  Go back and start over.  Eliminate the clever trickery, the unhealthy cheating, the creative ignorance and the borderline justifications of honesty in your business model.  You will eventually notice how much better the magic works on the victory side of the balance sheet.  There lies the only "pop" that matters.

You Can Spin Them Forever.

You can spin your wheels forever...or begin turning new pages to success.  You are the boss....remember, it is your business.  You get to be fully responsible for how well your business is doing.  I discovered a long time ago that I hated these kinds of words...but I hated the high rate of failure and lower income more.  Maybe we will discuss that kind of motivation next time.

See you next time.