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Fight the Recession – Make Your Business Grow by Being Present

You can only focus on one thing at a time. If you are giving your attention to multiple tasks at once you are spreading yourself too thin and producing inferior work-product. If you disagree with this statement let’s take a quick example to cement this concept. Have you ever been on the phone with someone who is watching t.v., playing on the internet or is otherwise working on something? You can tell right? Even if they deny it, you know that they are not giving you their full attention because they respond slower to your questions or answer you with “uh-huh” one too many times. Multi-tasking in the end makes projects take longer to complete, period.

Master The Details

Your brain has to switch between channels to move back and forth between the different projects or tasks that you’re working on. Each time you switch, you have a mini-delay while your brain processes information to get you back up to speed with where you were in the task. If you have enough distractions this process could take you several minutes to complete. This accounts for the sensation of losing your train of thought when writing or an inability to focus on a task after coming back from a distraction. By focusing one task at a time you are better able to handle all the requirements of a project. You are less likely to forget a step or a crucial detail. You will also get your work completed faster because you will not have to constantly make switches in your brain back to the task at hand.

The Future Will Be Better If You Focus On The Now

You cannot act in the past, you cannot act in the future, you can only act now. Regardless of how many projects you have to complete or how many fires you have to put out at any one time, you cannot be in two places at once and you cannot do anything about a problem that hasn’t happened yet. While you can set up systems to help you deal with potential problems in the future, your energy and focus needs to stay with the present. Worrying about future contingencies sucks energy from your present ability to handle and accomplish your current objectives.

Don’t Dwell In “What If’s”

Stop thinking about and letting your mental energy dwell in “recession-land.” The more you think about the recession or bad economic times the more you will actually create failing conditions for your business. You’ll subconsciously begin to sabotage your business if you continuously think about the market going down or the financial crisis on Wall Street.

You’ll start to think things like “my customer won’t buy our product because of the recession” and your actions will start to match that mentality. You will make less sales calls, you’ll lower the amount you ask people to buy or even lower the price of your goods without any real need to do so, all to keep up with the mental image you have in your brain of a slowing economy. Don’t tell yourself “no” before your customer has even heard your pitch. Let them tell you “no” and then reframe the offers to match their expectations if need be. Your first and only thought should be that you have a superior product, that is worth its price and that the customer will benefit greatly from your service or good. That’s it. Ignore the recession and press on.

Pick Your Five Things To Accomplish Each Day

Start out each day by making a list of the five most important things you need to accomplish and start working down your list. Begin on number one and do not work on number two until number one is complete. Do not open e-mail, take phone calls or engage in any other distraction while you are working on your list. If you have meetings or other interruptions, come back to your list each time you have quiet time to work. If quiet time is a problem then set up some boundaries with your employees or co-workers. Shut your door and put a sign on it saying you are in a meeting. By engaging in this process you will be able to focus completely on the ‘now” and your actions will be much more effective. If you do not finish all your five items, then just start the next day with the rest of the projects on your list and repeat the process.

Breath and Push Through Problems One Step At A Time

If a problem or fire does pop up, just mentally reframe your five most important tasks. Take the problem and place it at the number one spot. You will not be able to focus on anything until you calm your mind and put out the fire. Once extinguished, your ability to focus will return to normal and you can breath and move on with your productive day.

Lastly think of the type of life you really want to lead and look at how you are living now. Do you think that your current habits, actions and thoughts are congruent with what you want to create in your life? What can you do to bring those three things into alignment?

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How to Go From Idea to Product

Are you someone who has plenty of ideas but you struggle to actually implement them? In this article I am going to describe how you go from having an idea to actually putting that idea into practice and creating a product.

I am sure that there are many people out there who have so many ideas but the one thing that stops them from actually doing anything with that idea is because they don’t know what to do. Having ideas can sometime be the hardest thing for people who do know what to do – so you are blessed if you can come up with ideas easily!

If you have an idea then the very first thing you need to do is to make sure that your idea,if you turned it into a product, will actually be profitable for you. You may believe that your idea is great but that isn’t actually what is important. You need to make sure that other people will think your idea is great and will actually want to buy your product.

Market research is critical if you are going to have a profitable business and therefore you need to determine exactly if your idea will work and the form that your idea will take in terms of a product.

In this article I am talking about information products – that is products that share and explain how to do things or the importance of why you need to do something in order for someone to see a specific result and achieve something.

Therefore once you have an idea and you know that people will want that information all you need to do is to put that down on a piece of paper as an outline of exactly what you will include when you package it together as a product.

Your outline is based on the steps that someone might need to take in order to achieve something or it might be what people need to know in order to achieve something.

It is far easier to create a product if you have an outline than just trying to create it from an idea in your head.

Once you have your outline on paper then you can begin to fill in and pad that outline out so that you actually create an information product.
The way that you sell that product and in what format you sell it is entirely up to you. Bear in mind that certain formats will command a higher price than others.

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The Fundamentals of Six Sigma Presentation – Key Factors That You Should Know

Six sigma was originally introduced in the 80s by Motorola for measuring productivity or quality control within the operating methods/frameworks of corporations. In majority of the cases, Six Sigma Presentations are handled by veteran presenters who hold a Six Sigma certification. There could be different types of certification though. Those who are novice would be awarded with a Green Belt, whereas the intermediate level presenters are awarded with the Black Belt. And finally, the highest level six sigma presenters are known to be Master Black Belt holders or Champion – who formally orients the whole process into an organization.

However, let’s first see what the Implementation part should include. The presentation is often coincided by invitation and serves as a great introduction to and kick-off for the implementation phase of Six Sigma. So you can always start your presentations with a chart that showcase the progress of the company for incorporating its philosophy in the day to day practices. The second part would be about Measuring Quality. The majority of the manufacturers have come to realize today that a great customer service should begin with a prominent quality product.

Ventures that implement Six Sigma processes for improving product quality can succeed with a setting and achieving their goals for boosting customer satisfaction. And this translates to increased profitability. And the third phase should cover the Critical Elements. This phase is accompanied by slide shows that make use of PowerPoint or alike software applications. However, the presenter here would provides a basic overview on the Six Sigma which includes the background as well as history, along with the relevant objects like graphs, the line-length of the product and especially the success stories with other companies which have been successful in implementing the Six Sigma.

In totality, Six Sigma is a Measure, Process, Tool and all round vision to boost the performance of the organization. You should focus on the objectives though. There could be different types of objectives based on the unique needs and demands of the company. But the typical objectives include gaining operational excellence in the company and understanding the fundamentals of the 6 Sigma Program. Nevertheless, the six sigma presentation also covers how the organization and sigma steps relate to TOC (Theory Of Constraints) or TQM (Total Quality Management). The sigma presentation generally holds a brief discussion on the ability to well define a strategy or roadmap for the success of the company. The 6 sigma presentation needs to be customer focused, nevertheless. But at the same time, it must also cover the operational training in respect of comparative performance of competitors regarding customer support services.

In other words, the presentation should help companies understand the viable avenues to figure out their stance against the performance of their close and distant competitors. Most successful six sigma presentations also focus on Data Driven Decisions. The presentation should thus explain why is it worthwhile testing or inspecting a certain department, venture or process. In line with that, it should also show how the performance of that factor, department or aspect relies on output effect symptoms.

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