Let us hope that the R…… is well behind us. From the people I meet it seems to be. With plenty of time on the road recently I have enjoyed meeting plenty of new people. They all seem to have a glass half full, a willingness to learn and hopefully a willingness to change and at least try things. Tghis is the biggest challange I face. Send them off armed with teh ability, but do they use it??

“It’s not what you know, but Who you Know.”A popular saying and in my opinion very true.  An extension of this which has been great help to me recently is along the lines of:

“It’s not what you know, but Who you share the problem with.”

If no-one knows you have a problem-Big or small, easy or hard, funny or sad.  How are they going to be in a position to help you.

If I was to blog my problem would you come to my rescue-someone might I would hope. talking to friends, family could help.

In business you can’t necessarily wander over to a competitor and get sensitive information to help you out of a jam but finding a good business support network of people you trust will do the job.  Had you considered an independant director for your business.  Contact me and I will send you an interesting article on this.

At networking events the commentary that is popular is that you should be looking to help others, nothing wrong with that but it does need the other side to have a problem.  Someone needs to go first.

Finding a solution to a problem lets you move on, create change, shift that rock  and get you off from being anchor to the spot.

My problem: A broken garage door spring. Cost to replace about $60.  Cost of two conversations $0.  Problem solved on second conversation and I also now have a spare.

If it is going to be then it is up to me…  This has become a regular statement of mine at workshops. The point being that creating action or change is up to the business owner.  So easy to get back to work or even have a great idea in the middle of the night and fail to action it.

We are amazing creatures and  have plenty of thought.  Just need to find a way to get into action.

May I indulge you a little story.  I am someone  who can swim (can float and understand the basics of strokes but in all honesty I am useless at it)  After a weeks holiday on the beach and swimming (as opposed to paddling) this has become a goal for the year.  This week I have swum 3 times.  My shoulders hurt, I have tweaked a muscle in my neck, I have purchased a 10 trip pass to the pool, found a pair of spare goggles.  Had the swimming conversation with lots of people.  Whether they like it or not I will tell them my story.  Great support from home is a big plus.

Where does this take us.  Having a thought, creating a plan and creating action.  I really don’t like swimming but I will persevere.

Want do you want to change in your life or business?  You have the ideas, make a plan to make it happen, share it with others.   START.

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Here is a link to a piece by Dan Roberts of Xebidy. If you own or operate a business then this is for you and very thought provoking as to how well placed you are for the future!!
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Congratulations on making it to a blog.  This may be the first time for some of you, but hopefully not the last.  If  you were at one of my workshops and felt bullied into at least having a look, then I am delighted.

What next.

Have a look at the entries I have made

If you are feeling really daring just leave a comment.  It might not be anything earth shattering for starters but it will make me feel great that you have visited.  There may be subjects we could get some debate going on.

How do I use blogs.  I probably subscribe to about 10 blogs.  They are all not active with entries every day (But some are)

They give me different perspectives, ideas and even sometimes inspiration.  I see whats going on in my kids classes via the classroom blogs. I can read them at my leisure.

This is part of the new world and technology. 

You have an opinion don’t you. Lets hear it!

Not really news but i have just installed the twitter tools plugin so I am hoping that this post will then tweet!!!

PS. Yes it did, so most exciting.

Here is a link to a post by Seth Godin who I follow and enjoy.

The premise is that at some stage we are all new to this and we (the blogger) need to be 1. tolerant and 2. teach those new to the scene. 

So here is my best advise to you .  My reader who I am most grateful too…

Get yourself a feed reader.  I use Google reader. A click will take you to set up a new acct.  It is easy to set up and so far easy to use.  You can now subscribe to my blog and any others for that matter that may tickle your fancy.