Business Happiness, are you happy?

I read a study with over 30,000 respondents ranking happiness, with the findings (surprisingly) that the rich ARE more read the full article here

 

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Are You Interesting Enough?

Last week I had a meeting with a very interesting gentleman, he is an Investor, Venture Capitalist, been a GM of an international I.T firm and done things like walk for 5 months over North America to raise funds for a Cholmondeley Children's Charity http://www.walk4kids.org/ has a curious mind and is a big thinker... no surprise but to say, we hit it off....

 

It got me thinking, especially something he said about his walk over 4,500 k's in which he mentioned that he met many very interesting people, and if you visit his blog you will see he was all bearded up looking like a skinny Santa [which is an interesting concept in itself] and being interesting both physically as well as characteristically, had him be attractive to other interesting people, this had me have one of those ahha moments....

 

 

... A current trend in thinking promoted by the new age movement The Secret has a principal called the law of attraction, its typically sold as a mystical concept, but I believe to be logical and not metaphysical. We're naturally attracted to humans that are similar to us and once in their realm of influence [we are all influential, some positive and some negative] we take on more of their mannerisms, emulate their actions, values and ultimately get similar results in life they also get... So..

In a marketing sense are you interesting enough to be contacted by a prospect? Many of us like to be associated with interesting businesses ... What's interesting in your industry? Ask the question, what do your clients think are interesting to them?

 

The conclusion is if you're not attracting what you want then look at how you're being.... Are you interesting enough to the people that can make a difference in your life??

 

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A new year

Welcome back, yeah right.... So you've been away on a holiday break and you're now back at work refreshed and ready to attack a new year with vigour and passion. This break you made some decisions about your future and you can't wait until you get into it..... Hmmmm maybe not! So you've had a great break and now being back at work is horrible, you lack focus (especially with this hot weather in Canterbury we're having) motivation, got lost somewhere between Xmas pudding and 2am New Years Eve

Ok so the truth lies probably in the middle for most of us, we have plans for the new year but getting back into the daily ritual of working is hard, so here's how I have done it:-

• Plan the first day as a planning day only, clearing emails and generally mucking about. I found that after doing this I was more prepared to actually do some work, the tasks and objectives were now documented and recorded so it had me relax and not feeling over whelmed
• Turn up in the office everyday for the first week with no massive expectations of personal performance, expecting that after a lovely break you'll be full of beans could be dangerous as it'll set up feelings of guilt when you do get to the end of the day with little achieved. All I did was sit at my computer at 7-7:30 every morning and start from there, it was a making that a couple of days I worked so well that I didn't even consider breaking for lunch until 2am.... Of course I rewarded myself with a 2 hour training ride ;-)
• Be casual if you can get away with it, going straight from jandels to lace up shoes and a tie is down right depressing, I found that I went to the office a couple of days and wore dress shorts and a tidy clean shirt and this had me feel like I was still in control and on a break...

I'm sure that you may have a strategy feel free to share your strategies with us

 

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