CrossHair Targeting, Is It Your Business?

Is Your Business In Someone's Cross-Hairs?

Hunters know what a cross-hair looks like.  It is the cross design that pinpoints a target on someone's scope.  It is the mechanism to make sure your shot hits the target where you are aiming to hit.

Is your business in someone's cross-hairs?  Is someone aiming directly at your business to take it out?  Do not be too surprised if you run into this scenario sometime in your business career. Competitors will never cease to surprise me at what lengths they will go to destroy your business success.  The more you are recognized for your abilities to perform well, the more you attract a competitors interest.  This is especially true when your sales begin to become noticeable.  Your competition may not actually telegraph their dislike for your success, but trust me, they will do despicable things to try and injure your market success.

What do you do when you are in the cross-hairs of your competition?

Carve Or Starve, Get Creative In Your Business

Carve A Creative Mind

What if your business was treated like an ice sculpture?  Better yet, what if you treated all of your work like ice sculptures?  What would it be like to carve away new pieces of daily items only to have them melt away so you can start all over tomorrow with another one?  How creative can you make your mind behave?  If you did not need to worry about how fast your ideas would melt away, would you generate more ideas?

Creativity is a key factor to building strong business growth.  Most business owners have a good deal of creativity in their general make-up.  Even so, a lot of business owners do not do enough creative thought.  Why is that?

On Second Thought, I Do Own The Keys To My Business!

I Own These Keys!

Come to think of it, I own the keys to my business.  Sometimes I do so many things I find I am overwhelmed with getting it all done.  Good thing I have a lot of people employed to help me.  They fill in to do the things I cannot find time to complete.  Good thing.  I have a lot to do.

If more work builds up beyond what I have time to accomplish I can always delegate some of the work to my employees.  I do not have to do it all.  I can also pass on work that is more difficult to perform to some of the more experienced employees.  That will have the effect of taking some pressure off.  I can choose to do some of these things because I own the keys to my business.  I like taking some pressure off.  This is one of the reasons why I elected to own my own business.  I wanted to get rid of some of the goofy pressure I discovered as an employee.  Now I have my chance.  I own the keys to my business.

I used to struggle with delegating important work to my employees.  I think I was intimidated by the fact that they may be able to do a lot of things better than I could do.

If Only I Could Be In Charge Of This Business

If Only I Could Be In Charge!

I have the advantage of owning some small businesses and at the same time being employed by other small businesses.  In some business models I am employed as their manager, or adviser.  As a manager, I am not the true decision-maker.  As a manager or an adviser I recognize the true limitations to my decision-making responsibilities.  With regards to the major and more critical decisions, as a leadership employee, I am subordinate to the true responsibility for making those deeper business arrangements.  There are advantages to being subordinate, depending upon your bent of personality.  As well as there are challenges with being subordinate.  Both areas of work responsibilities, owner versus employed manager, are different.

I suspect a good many of the readers of this blog are managers or leadership employees.  You are given some form of leadership role in a small business model.  I would like to talk to you for a bit.  You who are employed by a small business model have completely different roles and uniquely difficult work responsibilities to perform.  I know.  I am one of those leadership employees, too.

Business, Birthday and Benevolence

Happy Birthday

The order of things in life are not always selected with care.  I am a person.  I do what I want to do bad enough more often than I do what I need to do.  That is what ensures that I remain a person.  I know I must be reminded to place first things first, but I backslide more often than I care to admit.  I have no excuse.  It is sloppy 'mental' business.

I am certain, however, as to why today is where it is.  I am certain, without a doubt, who's birthday falls on this day.  When I opened my eyes this morning I saw the world as it was yesterday.  Today will bring more experiences that are somewhat similar to yesterday.  New things will certainly happen today but most of the world will bring loads of things that are typically similar to what the day before produced.  A lot of each day brings about a lot of the same things we saw yesterday.  My house does not show up today with painted stripes and yesterday it hosted polka dots in blue.  Much of today is very similar to what we experienced yesterday.  We wake up each morning with a lot of yesterday in mind.

Its A Special Time For Christians In Business

This Is Not Santa Claus!  I Think You Know That.

Confusion is all around us.  Disputes are plentiful.  Wild arguments can be secured easily.  A contrary soul can become uncomfortable.  Sharp tongues can roll out their plan for protecting sides of opinions.  Refusals to submit can be bolstered.  Eyes and ears can turn away, quit hearing and seeing.  It is the stuff that sets fire to the world in tiny little pockets everywhere.  This time of year is filled with so much confusion in the deepest part of a human's soul that we have become very accustomed to ignoring the truth.  We work to eliminate some parts of why this season is upon us.  We work to change the language, the representations, the associate connections of why the holidays are so important to the retail world.  Confusion is all around us.

For the billions of those who are sitting on the fence, conflict is something they would just as soon ignore.  This time of year brings a subject to everyone's life which many have learned how to flow along beside instead of take to heart.  Ignoring the roots of this season may seem easier to those who avoid conflict when they participate in the season as a holiday instead of a celebration for a birthday.  They do participate, but not from their soul.  It may sound like a safer way to go.  It may keep their convictions for doing what they love to do in life, hidden, especially if those things are not necessarily of good report.

Today is a day that becomes the eve for the birth of Jesus.  The history of that event has not gone unnoticed in the smallest pockets of this earth.  For every person who has tried to reach the world with all the new technologies we possess, Jesus was able to squish your efforts with just his birth and later, his walk and death.  You will never be able to measure up to that exposure.  Never.  And from a business perspective, reaching people with a message of interest is a very difficult act to perform.  Reaching as many people with a message as Jesus has, is and will be able to reach in the coming future...is unparalleled.

Period.  End of marketing lesson.  Finished.  No dispute.  Bar none.  Try as you may.  You are totally whipped!

Happy Birthday, Jesus.  I tip my hat to you.  Thank you for teaching me the proper laws to apply in my work and to perform as well as I can by employing those fundamentals.  They work very well when I bring myself to allow them to exist within my spirit.  Thank you.  Again, Happy Birthday.

Until next time.....