June 28, 2005
Strategic Services Business Tips newsletter, Issue #001
This month we have……
INDEX:
Strategic Services One Minute Tip
Power Quotes
This month’s Business Resource
Strategic Jobs and Applicants
Sponsored Resource
Editor’s Note.
Strategic Services One Minute Tip:
Turn persistence into a habit. These steps can be followed by virtually anyone.
1. Have a clearly defined goal. The goal must be something you are emotionally involved with, something you want very much. (In the beginning, you may not even believe that you can accomplish it - the belief will come.)
2. Have a clearly established plan that you can begin working on immediately. (Your plan will very likely only cover the first and possibly the second stage of the journey to your goal. As you begin executing your plan, other steps required to complete your journey will be revealed at the right time.)
3. Make an irrevocable decision to reject any and all negative suggestions that come from friends, relatives or neighbors. Do not give any conscious attention to conditions or circumstances that appear to indicate the goal cannot be accomplished.
4. Establish a mastermind group of one or more people who will encourage, support and assist you wherever possible.
What do you dream of doing with your life? Do it. Begin right now and never quit. There is greatness in you. Let it out. Be persistent.
-Bob Proctor
Power Quotes:
Career/Marketplace by Jim Rohn
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.
Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time.
Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand.
Strategic Business Resources – Articles & Tips:
Personal Philosophy is Like The Set of The Sail by Jim Rohn
In the process of living, the winds of circumstances blow on us all in an unending flow that touches each of our lives.
We have all experienced the blowing winds of disappointment, despair and heartbreak. Why, then, would each of us, in our own individual ship of life, all beginning at the same point, with the same intended destination in mind, arrive at such different places at the end of the journey? Have we not all been blown by the winds of circumstances and buffeted by the turbulent storms of discontent?
What guides us to different destinations in life is determined by the way we have chosen to set our sail. The way that each of us thinks makes the major difference in where each of us arrive. The major difference is the set of the sail.
The same circumstances happen to us all. We have disappointments and challenges. We all have reversals and those moments when, in spite of our best plans and efforts, things just seem to fall apart.
Challenging circumstances are not events reserved for the poor, the uneducated or the destitute. The rich and the poor have marital problems. The rich and the poor have the same challenges that can lead to financial ruin and personal despair.
In the final analysis, it is not what happens that determines the quality of our lives, it is what we choose to do when we have struggled to set the sail and then discover, after all of our efforts, that the wind has changed directions.
When the winds change, we must change. We must struggle to our feet once more and rest the sail in the manner that will steer us toward the destination of our own deliberate choosing. The set of the sail, how we think and how we respond, has a far greater capacity to destroy our lives than any challenges we face.
How quickly and responsibly we react to adversity is far more important than the adversity itself. Once we discipline ourselves to understand this, we will finally and willingly conclude that the great challenge of life is to control the process of our thinking.
Learning to reset the sail with the changing winds rather than permitting ourselves to be blown in a direction we did not purposely choose requires the development of a whole new discipline. It involves going to work on establishing a powerful, personal philosophy that will help to influence in a positive way all that we do and that we think and decide.
If we can succeed in this worthy endeavor, the result will be a change in the course of our income, lifestyle and relationships, and in how we feel about the things of value as well as the times of challenge. If we can alter the way we perceive, judge and decide upon the main issues of life, then we can dramatically change our lives.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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Networking for Fun and Profit
One of the most common "rookie mistakes" business people
make is confusing the act of exchanging business cards, or
handshakes, with effective networking.
Networking is NOT about how many people have your business
card. It is about how many people know you, value what you
do, and feel comfortable referring their friends and
colleagues to you.
This is such a critical distinction that it's difficult to
over-state it. Over the years, I have heard dozens of
professionals and business people complain that they joined
a service club or professional organization "but it never
did any good." When I ask how they actually spent their
time, they usually say they attended meetings and talked
with as many people as possible.
When I ask how many referrals they made TO the people they
met, I often get a blank look. When I ask about how many
luncheons or follow-up phone calls they initiated, there's
silence. When I ask if they volunteered for a committee or
served as an officer of the club, the usual answer is,
"No."
Effective networking is about building trust. It's about
building relationships that benefits BOTH parties.
Think about how many people a physician, attorney,
stockbroker or salesperson contacts in a year. If your
physician knows and understands your business and feels
comfortable referring to you, just one physician might make
dozens of referrals per year.
Networking is the art of building a solid, long-term
alliance with a circle of friends. A circle of a dozen
might be worth a million dollars a year in referrals. It's
not the number business cards, it's the quality of the
relationships, that count.
And here's a "quick tip" - I never focus on how many cards
I give away, because once I hand them out I lose control
and I fear most of them end up in the trash. Instead, I
focus on how many cards I can COLLECT because that puts me
in charge. I get to initiate the follow-up phone call. I
get to send a thank-you card or letter.
If I have the other
person's card, I can build a relationship with them. If
I've merely handed my card out, I figure the odds are I'll
never hear from them again. Instead of handing cards out,
become an expert at taking an interest in the other person
and treasure their card as a potential goldmine!
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Editors Notes;
For people over 40 . . .
A computer was something on TV
From a science-fiction show of note
A window was something you hated to clean
And ram was the cousin of a goat
Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And gig was a job for the nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes.
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano.
Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3 inch Floppy
You hoped nobody found out.
Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while.
Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode.
Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu.
I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead.
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