An out of the blue call from a lady I met last year got me all excited. She's an incredibly talented dress designer and in her words "I dont need patterns" and "ideas just come from me" got me even more excited. The reason is, one of the many things that I have planned to do in conjunction with IWW is to release a line of chair accessories. I have already made mockup..rough ones and had hoped to get proper samples made in the very near future to help me make my millions....well so I thought.
Until I was reminded of the 2 books I am currently reading in my preparation to do my best for IWW Magazine! One is "Cashflow Quandrant" by Robert Kiyosaki and the other by business expert Micheal Gerber "E-Myth Mastery". While reading the begining of E-Myth I learnt something that really made me step back because I'm not exactly an entrepeneur as I thought! Why??? because "i do do do" all the time or as Gerber puts it I need to work more "on" the business than "in" the business.
I'm having such a hard time because " I'm a chronic "doer" and until yesterday(I have relunctantly changed my mind)I had such an urge to go full on with my accessories idea without doing any real research first(if I'm not doing anything I'm not being productive right??) so I have to consciously slow myself down before jumping on my next new idea bandwagon. So last night I wrote about 20 business questions....how will i distribute it? how much will it cost to start? how much will it likely make? whats it dependant on etc etc and I couldnt answer 1/3! Again I had started "do do doing". So my tip...read these 2 books and work on your business first. Robert Kiyosaki has a fabulous pyramid for business success. On the base of the pyramid is "Business Systems" and at the top "Product". I had started with the with the product first....time to start again. So its time out for me and instead of jumping into "do do" hold back and "think, think" first!!! Oh and read those 2 books you'll love them.
Until I was reminded of the 2 books I am currently reading in my preparation to do my best for IWW Magazine! One is "Cashflow Quandrant" by Robert Kiyosaki and the other by business expert Micheal Gerber "E-Myth Mastery". While reading the begining of E-Myth I learnt something that really made me step back because I'm not exactly an entrepeneur as I thought! Why??? because "i do do do" all the time or as Gerber puts it I need to work more "on" the business than "in" the business.I'm having such a hard time because " I'm a chronic "doer" and until yesterday(I have relunctantly changed my mind)I had such an urge to go full on with my accessories idea without doing any real research first(if I'm not doing anything I'm not being productive right??) so I have to consciously slow myself down before jumping on my next new idea bandwagon. So last night I wrote about 20 business questions....how will i distribute it? how much will it cost to start? how much will it likely make? whats it dependant on etc etc and I couldnt answer 1/3! Again I had started "do do doing". So my tip...read these 2 books and work on your business first. Robert Kiyosaki has a fabulous pyramid for business success. On the base of the pyramid is "Business Systems" and at the top "Product". I had started with the with the product first....time to start again. So its time out for me and instead of jumping into "do do" hold back and "think, think" first!!! Oh and read those 2 books you'll love them.
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