Business Tip from Vinden Grace

How would you like to work less and accomplish more?

The key is laziness. Implement an intelligent version of laziness.

Clever laziness involves recognising your strengths and weaknesses.

When you focus on your strengths, tasks are easy to accomplish. Focusing on your weaknesses generally results in a lot of hard work.

Take for example, a body builder lifting a 120-kilo table up a flight of stairs.

The body builder can simply pick up the table and carry it up the flight of stairs in a minute or two. While you, on the other hand, might struggle… needing to drag the table up the stairs. Or worse yet, you might take the table apart so you can carry up smaller, individual pieces.

A task that is easy for one person can be extremely difficult for another. So the key is to figure out ways to eliminate or *delegate or outsource* your difficult tasks.

Ask yourself, what are your strengths and what are your weaknesses? What tasks are very easy for you to accomplish and which are very difficult? Or what are the tasks over which you always procrastinate?

Make a list with your strengths on the left-hand side and your weaknesses on the right-hand side. This list will become your guide to intelligent laziness.

Aim to eliminate the entire right-hand side of the page. So essentially, all you’re left with are your strengths.

January 10, 2012July 6, 2012

Business tip from Vinden Grace

Buying (& pricing advice!) from over a century ago

Something to weave into sales copy……in more modern language of course….

“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little a getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”

This is a classic quote on the possible folly of automatically choosing low cost as the best way to make a purchase decision.

The common law of business balance is a meditation on price attributed to John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).

Useful also to convince prospects why they should pay more for your superior offerings!

May 1, 2011December 31, 2011

Get Your Focus Now!

Why you need Focus in business and your personal life

I’m going to let you in on one of the biggest secrets to making a living offline or online and in your personal life. This is the one nugget of wisdom that separates the large-scale winners from that motley collection of also-rans. It’s called focus.

How does this need for Focus come about?

Here’s the situation. Let’s look say at Internet marketing: it is stuffed to the gills with great opportunities to make a living online. There are so many different fundamental ways to make money that it’s hard to get your head around sometimes – hard to focus on just a few. Each of those general money-making strategies can be approached in many different ways. People are coming up with new ideas every day. It’s a lot of potential and a lot of temptation, but also an awful lot of information to digest. So, to concentrate on just one project or even a handful becomes ever-harder, our heads becoming chock-full of new business opportunities. This is when we need focus!

How do you apply Focus to e.g. Internet Marketing?

The ‘trick’ to making Internet marketing profitable is in developing a mindset that will let you move through this minefield of temptation un-scarred. It’s focus: choose a course of action; develop a plan to accomplish it and then implement the plan. Simple to say – so much harder to do! You need focus.

How can we help you to maintain Focus?

As a group of coaches over at QCCgroup, we developed a book on this very subject to help our numerous offline and online clients who had problems achieving the success that they wanted, due to a lack of focus in many cases. Visit our GetMoreFocusNow.com site for more details on this course or contact us.

Where do Marketers go wrong re: Focus?

Many failed marketers put in a lot of the hard work necessary to make a living. Their mistake was spreading all of that effort across a series of projects that never reached fruition. They lacked follow-through. They lacked focus.

If you don’t see projects through to completion, you’ll never get the results you want. The successful marketers follow through on each project, not getting distracted by ‘shiny new objects, AKA the ‘next big thing’! They maintain focus.