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5 Ideas A Day
Author:
Sarah White
Can you come up with five ideas a day to improve your business or professional practice? When Julie bought an old, cluttered hardware store in the late 1980s, she was the only woman she knew in the hardware business.
Can you come up with five ideas a day to improve your business or professional practice? When Julie bought an old, cluttered hardware store in the late 1980s, she was the only woman she knew in the hardware business. Ten years later her store was the most successful hardware store in her state of Kentucky and one of the most successful stores in the industry. Julie says that by making a list of five ideas every day, she was able to turn a very lackluster store into a tremendous success. Just five ideas, but she made her list every day. Sometimes her ideas led her to put up a new window display or promote a certain product. Other times her ideas have been to conduct "how-to" classes on home repair or remodeling. Others were holiday promotions, innovative advertising and sponsoring a girl’s soccer team. But the point is that any owner of a small business or professional practice can come up with five ideas a day.
The discipline is to do it every day. The Japanese philosophy of "Kaizen" is a way to turn continual small, daily improvements into huge changes. Day by day, these small improvements accumulate into dramatic transformations. Sit down every day with a sheet of paper. Write out the numbers one through five and ask yourself, "How can I improve my service to my customers?" "How can I reach new customers?" "How can I sell more of this product?” Don’t stop there; come up with more ideas of your own. Ask yourself questions focused on improving specific parts of your business. Fill in your list every day and put these ideas to work.Kaizen is to management what compound interest is to finance. Over time the cumulative value of all those small improvements can help you realize a tremendous transformation.
COPYRIGHT(C) 2006, Charles Brown. All rights reserved.
Just a few years after attempting suicide because every area of his life was in crumbling apart, Charles Brown has learned to literally "re-wire" and "re-program" his brain to achieve success in everything he attempts. He now teaches others how to use neuro-linquistic programming (NLP), subliminal technology, self hypnosis, and other methods to make major changes in their lives. He is the author of the free downloadable e-book
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