Repair Your Business, Repair Your Mind

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"How To" business manuals do not always have a chapter dedicated to teaching us how to repair our business minds.  Plenty of material is written on the steps and procedures of the physical responsibilities a business owner should perform.  It is easy searching the web to find written suggestions on how to do the physical steps on operating a business successfully.  There are virtually hundreds of thousands of those types of sites that provide that kind of information.  The trick is not how to search and find this kind of material.  The real trick to building business success is to recognize where to look to build a stronger business mind.  Landing on material that is designed to strengthen the mind of a business owner is far more necessary than going to the SBA and listening to the rules and procedures of how to function like a "real" business.  No offense to the Small Business Administration (SBA) folks, www.sba.gov/, they are very sharp and provide excellent material to those who have no idea what to do on the accounting and financial portions of their business responsibilities.  The SBA forces business operators to practice due diligence within the accounting portion of their business model before going forward with any hopeful ideas.  That force is a necessary force.  Any business operator who intends to ignore this crucial component within their business building efforts is an operator destined to fail.  Do not get mad about this reality, just prepare yourself for its results.  Failure is not fun nor is it cheap.  The truth remains that every business owner should and will need to practice this portion with great attention in order to succeed well.  The SBA is a wonderful source for this kind of guidance.  Quit running all over the web looking for a site that is friendlier to accept.  The SBA is a stellar choice and should be in your favorites.  It is in mine.  However, the SBA has little to do with the necessary repair process a business mind must visit on a regular maintenance schedule.  They devote very little time to study this topic and offer an operator less than enough good substance to become friendly fruit to an owner's needs on this subject.  Wrong place, wrong subject...great place, great subject...depending upon what you are looking to improve.

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While on the subject of providing great favorites to own on your computer...make sure you add the link to SCORE, http://www.score.org/index.html , another wonderful resource for business owners.  Groups like SCORE are also out there providing excellent advice to business owners on business mechanics.  I especially like the idea that these 'non-profit volunteers' have operated business models in their careers.  The information they offer is priceless and flowing down the proper stream to a current business owner.  The rest of us on the web out there are busy throwing out bits and pieces for readers to review.  The "SCORE" guys are flowing deep with a wealth of excellent, relevant and useful material.  Skipping them is a little bit like skipping past your future success.  Shame on you.  Check them out.  Place them into your favorites list and learn to go back and forth to them once in awhile.


Rest assured, your business needs these two sources.  It is a very simple job with today's simple tools to go view what they have to offer.  All you have to do is click the links.  If you decide to flush their suggestions after you visit their information sources, good luck.  The 'art' of navigating a business, successfully, through the world of obstacles that exist is a daunting task all by itself.  Getting crappy advice as you blunder about the web looking for useful business tips will only lead to a good dose of stumbling onto information that will feed the obstacles you already cannot overcome.  Think really hard about it.  This is how you begin to repair the business mind.  It is your mind that controls your destiny...not fate, nor luck.

Be very careful.  If you have trouble growing your business during these tough economic times, you may actually blame the economy for how your mind visits success.  Many businesses have revealed proof that some can grow during tough economies.  Even more, some have become slightly more profitable during tough times.  There is something to be said about the repair the owners practiced within the mind set of their thinking.  This mind set of winning thoughts helped those models become 'tough times' winners.  I admit there are not very many of these winners running about.  That does not excuse the fact that some are there.  It is not about luck, either.  I suspect something in their mind set of thinking is quite a bit different than the rest of the mass of business owners.  Winners think completely different than 'also-rans.'  I am a business operator who has wandered my trail through several recessions.  I am one of those 'also-rans.'  I ran along side the hard economies, also.  They stink.

If your business model is suffering during these times, change the way you are working the thoughts in your mind.  Be a courageous operator and try creating something worth growing.  Turn on your mind and let it become free to think.  Think your way out of what is not working and direct it closer towards new things that might work.  Try new ideas.  Try new concepts.  Try new products.  Try new services.  Try new marketing techniques.  Try new marketing niches.  Try new employees.  Try new advertising.  Try some creative cross-marketing ideas.  Try thinking completely different than how your habits accept thoughts.  Change your mind about some of the things you believe to be necessary in your business practices.  Work harder on building new mind thoughts.  Push your thinking until it begins to hurt.


Let's examine what this kind of change in thinking involves.  For example, if you are a building contractor looking for necessary work to begin building again...quit being a contractor of homes and remodels, and try approaching small colleges to teach building techniques for income opportunities.  Become an instructor of night time courses.  Some of those students may be looking to do some work on their own.  You may find some small projects to fill your work schedule while it is quiet on the building front.  Maybe you can search to find organizations that are doing some minor expansions and see if you can arrange to become an inexpensive superintendent on an outsourced basis to help them remodel or expand internally with employees from their own staff.  Go find new ways to think.  Go find new ways to do different work.  Break open your current mold of how you operate and develop new ways to operate.  Take your business methods and turn them upside down, shake out what thoughts will fall and see if anything good surfaces.


It is a great time in our careers to strengthen our business minds.  Business minds are not normal minds.  Many success stories evolve from gutsy thinking.  Be determined to develop a gutsy mind.  Create new lips, new hands, new feet and new ideas.  Wake up your inner strength and shore up the muscles in your mind.  Success does not land on a weak attempt.  Never.

Go get to the core of new thinking...learn to push your mind.

Until next time...