If you were given an extra 10 minutes each day, what would you do with it?
Would you….
Here’s your ten minutes. Do it NOW. Set your timer and indulge for 10 minutes in something that will propel you forward faster. 10 minutes a day can move mountains.
Below is Part 3 of a 3-Part article designed to help IT and database professionals stay on top of their game in an ever-changing trade. Part 1 and 2 describe examples of how we inadvertently make excuses for our lack of progress in certain areas of our careers.
Part 3 offers several steps toward creating “No Excuse Zones” in our home, office and thinking. For more examples that fit your specific work environment, please feel free to contact LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info.
We all have “excuses‟ as part of our normal, default speaking and thinking patterns. It’s normal. It’s human. We often entertain ourselves with stories of how we got to where we “don‟t want to be”. We do not readily acknowledge these stories as “excuses” or blaming something or someone external to ourselves for our predicament; we’re simply “explaining” ourselves. But the longer we stay in the “explaining” stage of the current situation; the longer we are stalled and not making forward progress.
As you can see in part 1 and part 2 of this article, there are endless ways to take control over your own calendar and time. Using external people and event as excuses for your lack of progress is very natural but not very beneficial. We won’t be able to totally avoid our very natural and human reactions to things. But we can continually improve upon are recognition of what is more beneficial in moving us forward faster.
Beginning steps toward NO EXCUST ZONE thinking:
Step 1) Create several NO EXCUSE ZONES in your home, office and social environments.
These places will be designated as “NO EXCUSE ZONES”. These are places where you are deliberately on the lookout for excuses in your speech and in others. It will be in these places where “excuses” will no longer be acceptable.
You can place a “NO EXCUSE ZONE” sign to warn co-workers, friends and family that you have kicked-up your game. It will be at these places that you practice your new-found energy, focus, and purpose.
When you detect “defensive” speech from yourself and others, diplomatically challenge the thought as an assumption, a false premise or even an irrelevant truth. Just because something is factual doesn‟t make it beneficial or useful. There are lots of truths that are simply immaterial to forward progress or solutions.
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Laura Lee Rose is the Corporate Exiting Strategest for blooming entrepreneurs.
Laura helps others to easily transition into their next chapter whether it’s the next ladder of success within their corporate environment or into the entrepreneurial playground.
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Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – Corporate Exit Strategist for the Blooming Entrepreneur – and I am a business and life coach that specializes in time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. As a business coach, I received this recent question:
“How do you repel your existing customers from ever coming back?”
At first glance, this may seem like a strange question, but it is actually a great topic. In any business, it is unrealistic to feel that you can make everyone happy with your products and services. Most successful businesses do not plan to be “all things to all people”. As such, there may be certain customers that you don’t really want as regular clients. This is actually very good business planning.
Having said the above, how does one go about professionally “repelling” an existing customer without the risk of a “Better Business Bureau Complaint”?
One very positive way to “repel customers from ever coming back”, is to focus on your overall goal to an exceptional client experience. This seems strange, but please bears with me.
If your goal is for 100% client satisfaction (or an exceptional client experience), and you are unable to satisfy this particular client with your current services or products, point them toward someone else’s service or products that will satisfy them.
Laura Lee Rose is the Corporate Exiting Strategest for blooming entrepreneurs.
Laura helps others to easily transition into their next chapter whether it’s the next ladder of success within their corporate environment or into the entrepreneurial playground.
To sign-up for these tools, subscribe at http://eepurl.com/gGZtP
Side note: When re-entering into the corporate environment from either a consultant or previous entrepreneurial position, I highly recommend targeting executive or skip-level positions. Do not focus on corporate positions that are merely lateral role to your previous corporate position. The experience that you gained as a consultant or entrepreneur is equivalent to executive, director or VP status. Please don’t sabotage yourself by aiming too low.
Many people will be wishing you a “Happy New Year”. You deserve more that just a wish. I want to assure you a happy new year. Take the following 4 steps to assure yourself an exciting and prosperous 2012.
The 11 Most Influentials in 2011
designed to assure a prosperous 2012
As the year comes to a close, please take time to reflect on the people, places, and events that have made you who you are today. This would include both affirmative and challenging entities; for those items that most frustrated us in 2011 helped us clarify what we actually prefer. Use those most trying people or periods to create your 2012 goals.
4 Steps to a prosperous 2012:
Let me know how you feel when you have completed this assignment.
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Professional development series
This is Laura Lee Rose, Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur, and I am a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. This is a segment from my Corporate Exit Strategy Leadership series
I’m driving back from a lovely weekend with a close friend. My friend’s son is twenty-one and living in her home rent-free. While I was there, my friend’s son had a series of good friends drop in throughout the weekend. Some spent the night and others had full access to the refrigerator, video games, etc. While my friend was happy that her son was safe, happy and had good friends, she was disappointed that he had quit his fast-food job. And he didn’t seem to be seriously looking for another position. He was taking some college classes but was currently taking a break. When his mom nags, he makes minimum motion toward filling out a job application at game/video retail shops. But it doesn’t seem to be self-initiated.
I certainly understood her frustration, so I asked, “He seems very popular. His friends seem very much at home here. Tell me more about them. Where do they live? What are they studying? Are they students in college? Do they have jobs? What are they passionate about?”
She shook her head and said, “Oh, they are very nice. They have known each other from high school. Matt shares an apartment with his brother. He doesn’t have a job. Joe lives with his grandmother. I don’t think he works. And Chris lives with his parents; he doesn’t go to school or work either…. “ Continue reading