Time Management is one of the great challenges for business owners. Your time is the most valuable resource in your business. Time is the one thing you can not buy, hire or steal more of. To build a beautiful business, business owners must learn to treat their time (and their health) as the rare commodity it is.
Highly Chilled Habit #3 is all about the numbers, Kpi’s, Dashboards and mailboat reports. In other words Highly Chilled Habit #3 is about putting and keeping your finger on the pulse of the key indicators of the health of your business every day, week and month, so you can drive your business without having to keep your fingers crossed.
Highly Chilled Habit #2 is all about being absolutely clear what your niche is: Who are the customers that have a need that you are able to deliver to them better than anyone else in the world
The 7 Habits of Highly Chilled Small business owners is about real business owners and the really simple and really successful habits they trained themselves in. Habit #1 is about Colin and being dependable and making good on your promises.
Many small steps lead to big change. To build the Fun and sustainable business you’ve always dreamt of, means getting on the journey and start walking. Change is always about getting on the journey and staying there, through thick and thin, and the first thing to do is to accept that you can’t do it all on your own. You need support, you need help, you need advice and sometimes you need someone to hold you accountable to your commitments.
All the business gurus, leaders, books, videos and training courses that you can tune into will tell you that: “Business must grow or else it dies”. But that’s nonsense. More is not necessarily better, and there is such a thing as enough and to build a Fun business that sustains you for years to come, it’s worth pondering the question: What is enough?
Leadership is a key component of profitable businesses. To truly build a Fun Business, however, you have to become a leader of a special kind
Once we’ve laid the foundations of a Fun business that sustains you for years to come we have to focus on the five business management truths: planning, goal setting staff, systems and processes (rhythm) and measurement. All of them need attention. All of them sound hard, but all of them can be managed much easier than you think by following these 5 Management Truths
Have you thought about the Big Question of Small Business: Why does your business exist? What’s it on this earth for and Why would anybody care? Once you’re able to answer the Big Question in a short succinct statement, a statement about Purpose, Passion and Profit, a statement that truly speaks to everything your care about in your business, everything changes. The Big Question is the foundation of a Fun business that sustains you for years to come
Fun (with a capital F) is a key indicator of the success of your business, because when your business is fun it means everything is working. It means you’re making money, it means your customers love you, it means your staff are engaged, and it means you’ve personally got the kind of balance in your life you dream of. A relentless focus on making business Fun is the one thing that will help you build a business that sustains you for years to come.