Communicating with yourself: Acting on your decisions

Why are you here? On this page I mean. What was it that made you decide that you should look at this particular article over all the other thousands on the Internet?

That’s not for me to say but hopefully I can persuade you to stick around a while. It might not be as easy as it sounds because you are a free spirit – you make your own decisions and you decide what’s coming next in your life, not me.

Now think about that for a moment. Are you already wavering as to whether you should carry on reading this or not? Are you thinking that I’m wasting your time by not getting to the point? Just what is it that I’m trying to say? Well I’ll tell you: At every single moment of every waking hour you are making a choice and it is you that is in control of every one of them. It may not feel like it but it’s true.

Sure, there will be occasions when we will be placed in awkward situations by other people that we don’t want to deal with but it is us that writes the next scene. For example my boss could fire me. What would I do? I may get upset or angry or violent. I may be philosophical, rational or pleased. Hey, you always said you wanted to leave that crumby job.

Do you see what I’m saying? I’m faced with a situation, I react to it. The question is what reaction will it be?

10 strategies for making the most of trade shows

Internet World trade show

Trade shows don’t have the importance they once did in the business world primarily due to the development of the Internet and on-line services but they are still a great way to take your product to the wider world.

If you’ve had mixed results from exhibiting at shows in the past, you probably need to look at how you can make a better impact at these events.You may have seen the foot-fall at your stand but did you get the right type of visitor to convert them into sales. Ultimately, did you see a return on your investment for participating?

Tick-Block: Do the time and forget the detail (for now)

Tick-Block is concept whereby blocks of time are set aside by an individual to work on particular aspect of their life. This could be business focussed, household chores, financial planning or exercise for instance.

Tick-Block is not a to-do list as such but merely a demonstration that you have planned time to work on a particular project. To successfully enable you to ‘tick-block’, at least 75% of the time you have scheduled has to be dedicated to that task. The premise of this system is encourage progress in whatever form it takes. Make a phone call, read an article, write an email, anything, but just TAKE ACTION!

Ultimately this system is all about ‘doing’ in the first instance with the focus doing more than you are doing right now. It is there to give you momentum rather than getting bogged down in the process of achieveing specific tasks. That can come later but for now the important thing is to get moving…