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++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TABLE OF CONTENTS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ..WELCOME to BizSuccess Breakthroughs ..THIS ISSUE'S MESSAGE - "The Bigger Game" ..SPOTLIGHTS - Products and Services for you and your enterprise ..QUOTES - To Get You Thinking ..THE FUNNIES - On the Lighter Side of Business ..MORE RESOURCES AT BizSuccess.com
WELCOME ++++++++++++++++++ Hello. Gary Lockwood here again with more breakthrough ideas and information on how to: Grow your business - Make more money - Have more fun. We had 142 new subscribers join us in the past two weeks. (Welcome!) Thank you again for referring this newsletter to your friends and colleagues. I really appreciate you for helping to pass the word about this newsletter. By the way, we just added the MoneyRoom Radio Show to our website. Mike Lamb is the host. I've known Mike for a couple years. He's a great interviewer and gets world-class guests to reveal their best secrets for making money and boosting business. Mike has a new show every weekday. Check it out. http://www.BizSuccess.com/MoneyRoom If you are like me, you occasionally discover that you are dabbling in tasks that are not taking you in great strides toward your goals. Today's article is about identifying your Bigger Game. What are the handful of activities that produce the results that you want; and will make a difference, taking you in the direction you wish to go? Remember, you are rewarded only for results. My hope is that you use the ideas and information in these BizSuccess Breakthroughs broadcasts to get the results you really want. If you want some help in putting them into practice, or if you have questions, email or call me. SUCCESS to You.... Gary Lockwood, Your Business Coach P.S. I heartily recommend Michael Angier's new book to you. Michael has presented all of us with an extraordinary gift of wisdom in this exciting new book. Open this book to any of these easy-to-grasp concepts and you'll get ideas to help you create your preferred future. Michael is my mentor and my friend. He has a knack for saying just the right things to inspire and motivate me. I trust you'll enjoy Strategies for Success as much as I have. Check out Michael's book for yourself at: http://www.BizSuccess.com/Angier
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THIS ISSUE'S MESSAGE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Bigger Game Last week, one of my clients told me a story about the new Chief Operating Officer he just brought into the company. It seems that Beth, the new COO, had left her old job because the president of that organization had a bad habit of micro-managing. He had his fingers in everything and was constantly making decisions that should have been the realm of the COO. My CEO client, Tom, does not want to make the same mistake of micromanaging. As Tom and I discussed the situation, it became increasingly clear that, while Tom does not want to micro-manage, he does, in fact, dabble in decisions and issues that are not CEO-level issues. Says he gets drawn into these situations regularly and doesn't have a graceful way out. When I asked Tom why he hired a Chief Operating Officer, he said that he wanted to pursue more strategic issues, elevate his vision and take his company to the next higher level. Tom wants to play a Bigger Game. When asked to describe the Bigger Game, Tom couldn't do it. Oh, he had some lofty-sounding platitudes and some interesting buzz words. But he couldn't crisply describe his two or three key focused accountabilities. No wonder Tom is dabbling in smaller issues. The people in his organization don't know what Tom needs to be focusing on. And Tom doesn't have the compelling, crisply stated vision of how he needs to spend his time. Only a small percentage (about 20%) of the tasks you personally perform REALLY make a difference in your business! The rest is just stuff. What are the 2-3 things that YOU do to drive the business? Regularly examine the results you get from the investment of your time and money. Leverage to produce high-impact results is attained through support people, automation, outside specialists, smart delegation and shrewdly managed priorities. Many CEOs and entrepreneurs are still operating under the mistaken belief that results are in direct proportion to how hard they work. This is why it's so important to make wise decisions about how you invest time and energy. Why do you feel that there's more to do than you can possibly do? Because there IS more to do than you can possibly do. You must make choices. Often very difficult choices. It is imperative that you are doing the right things, every bit as much as doing things right. You've heard of the 80/20 rule -- 20 percent of all activities will produce 80 percent of the meaningful results. What are your 20 percent? What are the handful of activities that produce the results that you want, that will make a difference, that will take you in the direction you wish to go? Remember, you are rewarded only for results. When you can clearly and succinctly describe your contribution to the organization, it's much easier for those around you to rise to the occasion, filling in the gap left when you stop doing non- essential tasks. Describe your Bigger Game in 3-4 bullet points. Focus on what counts. Then, take aggressive action to let go of the tasks that are just not part of your Bigger Game. Let go of your need to say "Yes" to every request - Those around you will give you all the work you are willing to take. Examine all activities where you spend your time. Which ones can you "let go"? Let go of some meetings - The typical manager spends 17 hours each week in meetings plus 6.3 hours getting ready for those meetings. Nearly a third of that time in meetings is wasted. That works out to be about six full weeks of the year of useless meeting time. Skip some of the meetings or send someone else. Let go of interruptions - Interruptions can drain 1-2 hours a day. Rather than spend time with anyone who happens to stop by, close the door, turn off the phone or work from home one day a week. Let go of useless tasks - quit doing some of the routine things you do just because "that's what I've always done". Practice good priority management. Plan each day to stay focused on those tasks that will move you toward your goals. Watch for tasks that can be delegated or simply dropped. Most of this is really caused by losing focus of true priorities. Learn to tell the difference between "urgent" and "important". Play your Bigger Game.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D'Angelo Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness. Thomas Jefferson Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
THE FUNNIES +++++++++++++++++++++++ Stop by our website every day to see the Business Cartoon of the Day by Ted Goff. http://www.bizsuccess.com/cartoon.htm ------------ The Frog Who Would Be Prince ----------------------------- A frog telephones a psychic hotline and is told, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you." "Great," says the frog, "Will I meet her at a party?" "No," said the psychic, "Next year -- in biology class."
Laws of Life ------------ * Murphy's First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five. * Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed. * The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay. * Miller's Law of Insurance: Insurance covers everything except what happens. * First Law of Living: As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else. * Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness: Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale. * The Grocery Bag Law: The candy bar you planned to eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag. * Lampner's Law of Employment: When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot. ***excerpts from: http://www.joker.org/ *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RESOURCES AT BizSuccess.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Listen to the MoneyRoom Radio Show - We *Talk Business * Moneyroom has Great Guests with New Shows Every Weekday, On Demand 24/7 http://www.BizSuccess.com/MoneyRoom Hear top experts discuss how to make money, how to start and run a business, how to turbocharge your current business, and more. Get vital information now. Increase profits by hosting the Moneyroom Show at YOUR site. http://www.BizSuccess.com/MoneyRoom
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