A discussion on fertilizer for home gardening plants seems like a dated topic. Yet the importance is utmost as per the interest of growers and gardeners. For all the gardeners, the knowledge of using fertilizers and ways to apply them is crucial. For attaining the vigorous plant growth, you must know about the hardiness of plant zones. In order to grow the plants, we are continuing the brief discussion on why, how and what multivitamins should be applied on the plants.

All ideal fertilizer for garden plants carry three chief elements named as Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium.

Nitren is important for promoting the leaf development and growth. It helps iogn the development of chlorophyll. Basically, it helps in converting sunlight into food.
Phosphorous is very important for the growth of stems, roots, blossoms and fruits.
Potassium is another important element helping your plants in digestion and making of food.

Why do they need Fertilizers?

Often, we may wonder that, all the important nutrients are available in soil and air, so fertilizers are important? Fertilizers act as a mediator as some plants cannot get complete access of soil nutrients. So, the choice of nutrients also depends on the type of soil, the plant is growing into. Some modern farming techniques, traffic and construction can disturb the soil’s nutrient chemistry leading towards limited nutrient base. For such reasons, the gardeners must use fertilizers to help plants reach to their full nutrient capacity.

Some Homemade Options:

1. Seawood:

This fertilizer type has the long-held lineage of 1000+ years. It is considered as all-embracing organic option. However, it carries mannitol which can increase the plant’s ability to absorb more nutrients. You can use fresh or dried seawood in this regard.

2. Fish Emulsion:

Fish emulsion works like a homemade option which is obtained from fish-waste. The results with this have been truly great. However, it works very gradually. Also, the smell can bother you a little more.

3. Aquarium Water:

The aquarium water while cleaning the tank also works as a great source of fish waste for plants. It is easy and anytime available option.

4. Coffee Grounds:

Used coffee grounds are a good source of two percent of nitrogen. It can also provide some phosphorous and potash. Let them dry and scatter lightly over your plants.

5. Egg Shells:

Egg shells can be the most ideal and practical fertilizer option. They carry calcium which makes an important element in cell growth. You can simply crush in grinder and sprinkle over the soil.

With the right strategy, a marketer can easily enjoy the amazing benefits of content marketing. Some of these benefits are more traffic, a better reputation, and continuous growth in both traffic and reputation in the long run with only a little increase in the budget. With entrepreneurship, costing and keeping the marketing budget within the limit is really important.

Though content-marketing is very popular due to its cost-efficiency, it is not free nor cheap. Investing heavily in an internal employee or respectable external firms is necessary to produce excellent work and execute a high-quality strategy. And always keep in mind that in marketing, an effective brand design is necessary too so keep your audience hooked.

Fortunately, a marketer can still cut costs without having to sacrifice the campaign quality with the help of some money-saving tricks. Below are the strategies found to be incredibly useful by many marketers.

1. Reusing old content.
For some, this is not a good idea. But honestly, it will only be bad if the old content is reused in the wrong way. If for example, a marketer has a successful ‘evergreen topic’ blog post which he posted two years ago. Since the content of this blog stays fresh and can attract lots of traffic, it wouldn’t hurt if he will revisit and re-post such article.

Evidently, reposting the same article say every month will not give him new results. His possible option is waiting for a year or two before reposting, he could even get away with a full republication.

If in case he decides to repost a blog of his with an evergreen content but without waiting for it to turn one-year-old, he can do so by changing the headline, reorganizing the internal sections, or editing the body content to give the article a new “look.” He just needs to ensure that the URL where it was initially published is the same or else, he might lose the SEO equity that the article has already built up.

2. Re-envisioning content in new mediums
A marketer can convert his successful article to different mediums such as infographics or video highlights. He can also use certain snippets of his article and share it on social media as a tweet or a Facebook post. Reimagining new ways to republish an old but effective blog will definitely help in cutting content-marketing costs.

3. Don’t stop at content publication, move forward with content promotion.
Content marketing starts with idea brainstorming and content creation, editing, and publication. But successful marketers do not stop and think that their job is done after publishing their articles, they go beyond that and promote their content.

Eric Siu, an Entrepreneur contributor and Single Grain CEO, mentioned that a marketer should spend 20% of his time in creating content and 80% on promoting content. One can start by showcasing his work across his social media channels and move along by sending paid ads to it, conducting influencer marketing, submitting it to StumbleUpon or Reddit, and building internal links to it

In the past 60 years, manufacturing has shifted tremendously; from positions driven solely by men to the liberation movement that brought wives and mothers out of their home to share in the labor force.

Today, Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. proudly supports 21 women manufacturers in professions ranging from Investment Assembly and Metallurgical Project Specialist to Human Resource Manager and Accounting Personnel. These roles vary with experience and qualifications but are not separated by office and foundry.

SF&E interviewed some of these women to share in their experiences, as women in manufacturing, in celebration of International Women’s Day 2018; Lois Ranieri (Foundry Engineer), Victoria Brockhaus (Customer Service Manager), Francine Veguilla (Purchasing Agent), Lori McCulloch (Contract Specialist), Jenny Hall (Metallurgical Project Specialist), Donna Kittler (Investment Assembly Setup) and Jeanne Wagner (Technical Director).

SF&E’s women manufacturers are not shy of stepping out of the office and getting their hands dirty. Brockhaus will be seen working with the machinist at SF&E’s machine shop or tracking an order for a customer in the foundry. McCulloch, following in Hall’s footsteps (sisters and coworkers for over 20 years), both started as Metal Lab Technicians, both given the opportunity for growth, now improving SF&E’s Quality Departments capabilities by pulling test bars, updating the QMP’s and Quality Policy Manuals under the supervision of Mike Porfilio.

The women interviewed came into manufacturing either straight out of high school (Kittler with 30 years of manufacturing experience) or right out of college (Wagner with 23 years of manufacturing and metallurgical experience). Veguilla, one of the newest members with 8 months of manufacturing experience, joined SF&E to follow in her father’s manufacturing footsteps. Veguilla is a full time purchasing agent for office and maintenance supplies all the while obtaining her masters degree at Cardinal Stritch University. These women all hold critical roles at SF&E to contribute to its greatness.

Based on Kittler’s expertise, she was first to assemble SF&E’s largest and most complex investment casting which was assembled from 7 wax pieces. Over the years Kittler’s versatility has allowed her to perform all jobs in the wax room from injection press operator to lead person.

By working with our customer’s engineering team, Ranieri delivered a unique and efficient solution to one of SF&E’s highest volume customers for their new line of all-terrain vehicles. Ranieri is an example of how hard work and perseverance pay off. Initially hired as an engineering technician, she put for the extra effort to earn her position as foundry engineer.

Hall has contributed positive cost savings, by using an innovative technique to save the company, and its customer’s, time and money by using extra material for new heats.

In addition to being our technical expert, Wagner has used her role and ability to positively impact her coworker’s confidence, strength and knowledge. Her passion to see other’s succeed is evident in her daily interaction with employees.

With all the guidance and support these women have offered they still face difficulties in their roles. “We’re always on the outside”, mentioned a key contributor to the casting process. “Earning respect with male coworkers can be tough”, said a female who works above and alongside other foundry personnel. Another insight was the “foundry male mentality” that makes it sometimes hard to develop as a women in manufacturing.

Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. would not be where they are today if these valuable women didn’t give manufacturing a shot. Manufacturers need more women who are smart and strong to bridge the gap to open more opportunities. This environment gives you the chance to watch something incredible unfold and it’s not just a man’s world, especially if you find something you enjoy doing and do it well.

At times people indulge in tickling their taste buds to get the best out of the cooks and explore their culinary skills. But food in spite of being exceptionally tasty has to be healthy and nutritious at its best. Only health and nutritious meal or snack can provide you with habit of a right palate.

Besides, providing sumptuous and tasty food they should be able to create the children’s palate for the right food. There is where they have to create a latent value if you are in the business of food service catering for schools.

That is developing the taste for the right food instead creating food to suit taste. It is difficult. But over the time if you have developed you culinary skills you can understand how to develop the taste for the right food, both nutritious and that can contribute to the health of the budding souls.

Food service in schools, a major part of the federal school lunch program has many responsibilities for food service providers besides playing with culinary skill they have to serve the most sensitive palate of school going and also provide food that is nutritious and supports their growth in the early stage of life.

Food service school in NJ involves more guidance and bounds us with budget constraints. There is also an expectation from the school nutritionist and school children and management. Mostly as a service provider you have to scrape menus of two sides with rival expectations. On one side the expectation is of nutrition and the other side the expectation is of tickling taste.

Any imbalance can lead to rejection and wastage. Therefore as a school provider what is important is you bring the best of the both to provide a menu that can be acceptable to all and that only you can confirm when you see no wastage or coming back. Only when that happens can a food service provider claim he has met the standards and expectations and brought about customer delight.

Children who submit school lunch application on personal grounds are provided with meager funds to provide for their food. This should not escape either the school lunch program administration or the school food service provider.

Both the school and the service provider have to package the meal or snack within a shoe-string budget. That provides an additional constraint to the lunch provider to give equal nutrition and taste with the available resources. Therefore a food service provider for schools in New Jersey should take care of all these things to enable him to carry on the service successfully.

A food service provider like Karson Foods http://www.karsonfoods.com/school-food-services.html may treat them as an advantage instead of problem, limitation or constraint and explore their culinary skills at best explored in a controlled situation more. Just like you ask students to write an essay on any topic of their choice and they will have to scratch for topics. At the same time give them a list of topic to choose and they are relieved.

Karson Foods, with our loyal employees, form one of the largest and most professional on-site catering food service in the New Jersey area, and have been doing so since 1982. Our family-owned and operated business has expanded our menu selections and contract food services placing us at the front when it comes to a quality product with a good value. Our services are comparable to all standard federal school lunch programs. Our school lunch program is a fresh food program.. Meals are cooked, portioned, sealed and delivered from our kitchen to yours on a daily basis or as needed.

In the present scenario, quality is the biggest driver for any business to succeed. Quality remains at the heart of any business. Healthcare is one such industry where quality of care cannot be compromised at any cost. The healthcare landscape in India is very dynamic and operates in an environment having rapid social, economical and technological changes. It is quite often that we hear about poor patient care, negligence, readmission cases, nosocomial infection, inefficient facilities, inadequate resources, unhygienic environment. Such being the case, quality in healthcare services becomes a mandate and accreditation is the only solution to this!!

Accreditation is the evaluation process used by the Healthcare organisation to access and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness. Technecon Healthcare, as hospital consultants, help the healthcare organization in bridging this gap through an internal assessment of the facilities and processes of the hospital to assess its accreditation readiness and also help in preparation of documentation in conformation with the accreditation norms as well as hand hold through the accreditation process. The ultimate goal of the hospital is to provide high quality care, safe healthcare services and reduce the length of stay.

Who can apply?

Any healthcare organization which is currently operational
Willing to assume responsibility for improving quality care
Preferably registered or licensed with concerned authorities
Process of Accreditation:
Screening of the application as per the laid down standards
Pre-assessment survey
Assessment survey
Review of the recommendations of the assessing body by the Accreditation committee
Approval of Accreditation by the NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers.)
Re-assessment survey
Examine the current processes and quality standards of the hospital
Find out the quality standards and parameters required for accreditation
Compare the standards for accreditation and the processes currently followed by the hospital
Analyse and document the gaps
Identify areas for improvement

Apart from the aforementioned points, the top managers should take initiative in creating willingness among the employees, provide proper training to all the staff and ensure commitment by them and encourage and catalyse change management.

Benefits of hospital accreditation:

Improves quality of care, patient safety and thereby enhancing patient experience
Reduces the risk of adverse event
Improves work environment for staff thereby resulting in high productivity
Increases opportunity of empanelment with insurance and third parties.
Ensures trust and confidence among patients by providing them access to good quality of care, infrastructure, etc.
Increases the number of patient footfalls leading to enhancement of revenue
Competitive edge over non- accredited hospitals

Accredited hospitals need to continuously improve the quality of care and ensure compliance to the quality standards. If during the accreditation process, the accreditation organization receives inputs that the organization is substantially out of compliance with the current standards then a re-survey or withdrawal of accredited decision may be resorted to. Whilst the road towards accreditation is not easy to navigate, all it needs is continuous efforts to achieve long term benefits.

Is your business taking steps to actively safe water? Not only can your business stand to save money by saving water, but you’ll also be helping the environment by conserving earth’s water resources.

Did you know? Environmental scientists predict that the world will experience freshwater shortages in the next 50 years.

Of course, every business uses water differently – some industries are water-intensive, whereas others only use water for day-to-day hygiene in the office environment. This is why knowing how and when your business uses water can help you identify opportunities to make suitable savings.

Why save water?

To secure increasingly scarce water supplies.
It’s becoming more expensive to augment existing water supply by building new infrastructure.
Save money on your monthly water bill.
Minimise the amount of water taken from the limited natural supply, protecting these resources and their biodiversity.
Reduce your business’s carbon footprint – since purifying and heating water uses a lot of energy, reducing water use helps reduce your energy use and your carbon footprint too.
Create a culture of care for the environment within your company.
When you invest in sustainable technologies, you may be eligible for government incentives and tax deductions.
Use your water-saving initiatives to generate positive public relations.

Business water saving tips that save you money!
Achieving reductions in water consumption comes from implementing an array of measures consistently across the business – some quick wins along with some longer-term investments.

Quick wins

Get your employees involved

The most effective water savings come from collective buy-in. Spend a session educating your employees about why they should save water and ways to save water. Encourage them to come up with their own business water saving tips.

Monitor for leaks

Did you know? According to the Consumer Council for Water, 3.1 billion litres of water were lost in England and Wales every day in 2016/7!

Any leaking taps or pipes waste water and cost you money! The best time to check for leaks is over the weekend or at night, when water isn’t being used. Walk around your facility regularly to check every tap and connection for leaks and have them fixed as soon as possible. Encourage your employees to immediately report any leaks they notice.

You should also ensure that the relevant personnel know where your supply pipes run and where the shut-off valves are located. If a pipe were to suddenly burst, a member of staff will then be able to shut off the mains quickly to avoid wastage.

Knowledge is power

Record your monthly bills and consumption so that you can identify any spikes in usage and find out why these may be occurring. You can also install a smart water meter to give to real-time consumption data and analysis. Knowing how you use (or waste) water is the best way to know how to save it.

Long-term saving investments

Installing technologies and devices can help you achieve water savings in the long run. Examples include installing:

A sensored irrigation system to control outdoor water use
Low-flow restrictors on showers and faucets
Waterless urinals
Urinal controls
Efficient flush toilets
Sensor or automatic taps
Efficient taps and showers
A rainwater harvesting device
Recycling infrastructure that will allow you to use greywater or rainwater
Many of these water-efficient technologies are easier and cheaper to install than you may think, with the time and cost offset by long-term (and immediate) savings. You may even be eligible for tax credits on sustainable technologies.

The time is now to become water wise!

Implementing these quick wins and long-term water efficiencies can help your business save the earth’s most vital resource – and save money in the process.

Back many years ago, I met a fellow franchisor, he’d built a nice company with 250 franchisees which operated Kiosks in shopping malls – you know those carts in malls that sell various wares. What he did was make each Kiosk its own business, at first as “independent contractors” but later as Franchisees due to the Franchise Law rules. Each franchisee had to sign a two-year franchise agreement with non-automatic renewal, where the Franchisor could merely take over the business, location, as he already had the lease-space agreement with the malls, including the corporations that owned many malls around the country.

After two years, he stopped renewing franchise agreements, took control of all those little businesses, and then sold the whole thing and retired a very wealthy man. Unfortunately, many of the independent contractors, turned into Franchisees were forced out after building up their businesses and providing a substantial amount of goodwill. The franchisor’s concept was built by the blood, sweat and tears of all those individuals, who did make decent money in the meantime, but were then basically terminated when their franchise agreement term ended.

Recently, there is an interesting company in the “Handy Man” sector which has a franchise agreement that states it may unilaterally buy back the franchisee’s business at any time after 2-years of operating. In the Franchisor’s option to purchase there is a mathematical formula for valuation of the Franchisee’s business that negate the value of any “goodwill” and allows the Franchisee to choose if he will see at “Fair Market Value” of assets (used equipment, office furniture) or twice the earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA).

Why would a Franchise Buyer buy a franchise like that? I suppose there might be a few situations where it makes sense for instance, the Franchisee just needs a couple of years of income and believes they can build up a good “book” of business, and if it starts to go South, the Franchisor may buy him/her out and they can move on, less risk? But what if the Franchisor chooses not to buy and the business fails? What if the business succeeds wildly and the Franchisee is forced to sell-out a thriving and growing business?

If you think about it, it is a brilliant strategy for a Franchisor, have others build your business, take all the risks, and if they succeed, you terminate their franchise agreement instead of renewal, and if they fail, you simply let them fail, then sell that territory to a new franchisee, until one succeeds and then you just keep winning and building on the backs of others. As a franchisee buyer it may be wise to recognize such strategies and be weary of them, unless it serves your temporary purpose of a short term business and solid temporary cash flow based on your abilities and the Franchisor’s model. Think on this.

How does your team perform? How do you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is poor and 10 excellent? Is it massively successful constantly delivering way past all expectations? Is it full of positively minded people working together to achieve challenging business goals? Is it autonomous, responding effectively to challenges and opportunities large and small?

If the answer to these questions is “yes”, congratulations, you can score a 10 and don’t need to read any more of this article. In fact, as you are likely to have plenty of time for high yield activities, give me a call to discuss how your team got there.

Sadly, this isn’t the case for most of us. Your team may not be a “10” but I doubt if it’s a “1” either. Hopefully you are somewhere on the path and have the right attitudes, values and approach develop your team into a “10”.

Empowerment is a key ingredient to the high performing team. If your team feels undervalued, lacking in authority and capability, frightened to make the slightest mistake it’s unlikely to be hitting the high notes. Perhaps there are some individuals that show real potential but others are negative and unproductive?

Are you creating the right conditions for success? Does the team have a clear understanding of what is required of them? Have you a vision of what success looks like? Are the goals you have set, or been set, shared and meaningful to all team members? Reward and fear motivation is common in business today. A common example is rewarding success with a bag of money and punishing failure with the sack. The trouble is we get used to this, we need more and more money to get the same level of motivation and become resilient to threats of the sack.

Internal motivation is far more lasting and effective. It needs more work, it needs you to really understand your people and what drives them. If you know this and use personal, meaningful goals your team will self-motivate. If you have linked their personal, meaningful goals to team and company goals you are well on the way to a successful team.

The whole team is raring to go, but have they the capability to execute? Are team members allowed to make decisions? Have you delegated effectively packaging the task with the necessary authority and resources? Effective delegation is important to team success and team growth. It is a wonderful growth tool for teams and individuals. It does, however need certain attitudes and process to succeed.

Flexibility is a good starting point. The way you do a task may not be the way a team member does. They can be innovative and bring unexpectedly good results given the opportunity. It’s worth letting people test out new ideas. Sometimes different is really good, just think of Amazon and Facebook.

How self-confident are you? Enough to release authority and responsibility to team members? Enough to heap praise publicly when they bring success? Lack of self-confidence and micromanagement are the enemy of productivity. Conquer them and you will become an indispensable profit and productivity generator both for yourself and your company.

Focus on results don’t strive for perfection. Perfect is no friend of productivity. Set standards that are right for the job and always be mindful of the Pareto principle. 80% of your results are going to come from 20% of activities. This means a lot of the work delegated will contribute relatively little to overall performance. It’s intelligent to accept less than perfect in relatively unimportant areas.

Taking credit for the work of others, not really listening to their ideas or working solo crush team morale and productivity. Some people believe effective leaders must always be in total control. They see this as the way “good bosses” should behave. Many bosses do behave this way but I question if they are good. It’s most certainly not the way a good leader behaves so, if that’s what you want to be I suggest you avoid this behaviour entirely.

Delegation develops employees into effective team members. Risk is inherent but you can balance it against the likely reward in terms of personal and team growth and overall performance. It’s also possible to limit risk by adopting a multi-level delegation process.

Tiffany is a bright, driven girl with her foot on the first rung of the marketing ladder. She is doing a great job creating very successful direct mail campaigns. She is eager for something new and looks like a good candidate for development. You have just the task and would like to delegate it to her. It’s running an event which will be a challenge for her but offers a great development opportunity.

A good first step is to her for an opinion. You might say “I’m thinking of doing things differently and wondered who you think might be able to handle this task, perhaps even you? This gives her the opportunity to express opinions but not feel forced to accept the task.

If Tiffany accepts, consider this approach. The first time the opportunity to run an event comes along you run it, let her watch you do it and ask questions. The second time let Tiffany do it with you assisting and helping out where needed. The third time she runs the event, but this time without your support unless absolutely needed, reporting at regular intervals. Subsequent times she always runs events unaided and only reports in exceptional circumstances.

One seemingly small point is very important for Tiffany’s confidence and status in the team. If she performs well, make the praise loud, long and public. If she needs coaching make it supportive, private and non-judgemental.

I hope this is useful to you and help you build your own high performance team.

‘Remember in our youth the standard return-to-school “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay? This summer has given me several lessons that have value for you today.

The story begins with a local police officer knocking on my door at 9:00 one night, asking me about my brother, Billy. Of course, you know what happens next–I find out that Billy died in a motorcycle accident a few hours earlier. He was 57, divorced, with no children. He was a floor layer, a regular ordinary guy. Like you and your team members.

First lesson: we are in a business of relationships. Don’t let corporate purchasing and hard bid tactics make you forget this. While price is part of the purchase consideration, the quality of your work and the relationships you foster with your clients, customers, and co-workers are paramount. I first realized this as word about Billy spread through the grapevine and I received numerous calls, emails, and cards of condolence from across the country. These were unexpected and much appreciated.

I saw it again at his wake. Having worked his trade in the New York area for over 30 years, my brother was well-known. On that Memorial Day weekend, we were visited by many of his associates. Not just tile guys, but the Foreman from the Laborers, and a superintendent from a General Contractor, to name a few. There were even guys who had worked with our father in the business-and some even remembered when I had helped out on a few jobs, way back when! Connections between people-that’s what it’s about.

Next lesson: how is your health? Construction is hard work, yeah. But it isn’t a substitute for quality exercise and eating. Billy wasn’t in bad shape, but he wasn’t in good shape, either. He loved to eat; cooking was his hobby. He didn’t exercise. And he had coronary artery disease. In fact, he may have had a health crisis that triggered the crash. We don’t know for sure. But we do know that he was not taking care of himself and now, he’s gone. Are you taking care of yourself? (If not for yourself, then for those who love you.)

“Divorced with no kids” sounds like an easy estate to deal with, right? Well, it would be if

1. there had been a will (there wasn’t)
2. there had been up-to-date beneficiaries on his life insurance policy (his ex-wife is still listed, although that wasn’t his wish; he just “never got around to” changing beneficiaries even though they’d been divorced for several years), and
3. all his records had been kept in one place (not even close).

Looking through files and folders is never easy, but having to weed through pay stubs from 1986 makes the process even harder. I realized that my finances and directives are in a similar state of disorganization. I am currently creating what I call the Red Envelope, where all of that information is being placed to make the process easier for whoever needs to deal with it. We need to do this for the benefit of those around us. If you are a business owner or the head of a household, this becomes even more important.

By now, you may be fed up with my personal ramblings. But remember what my brother did for a living. He was a regular guy, he was just like you and the guys who work for you and with you. I am hoping you can learn from him so your team is better off.

People (at all ages), often say things like, “you made me feel this way”, etc. It just simply isn’t true. Only you decide how you’re going to feel. No one has that power over you.

You get to decide whether or not to react or respond to someone/something. Not the other way around. Now, if you notice you constantly feel bad around someone, you will want to look at why that is. Are you needing to work on setting boundaries with others, is there another reason why this is persisting, or does this person have a negative energy about them and it’s time to take control of who you’re surround yourself with? In any event, it is still your decision on how you react. I remember being told this by someone years ago when I was first entering the self-development arena. I got it intellectually, but didn’t really “get it” on a deeper level. This involves a lot of inner work, and it starts with taking responsibility for every single thing happening in your life.

It amazes me when people complain about not getting the results in their life. You are your only problem. If you aren’t getting what you want externally, something is off internally. What is happening on the outside of you is a direct result of your thinking. Always. Regardless if it’s negative or positive. You need to look inside. Who are you being or not being? What type of thinking is causing you to stay stuck? Do you believe you have to struggle or think the potential clients you are talking to just aren’t ready to take action? You are fooling yourself. This is your subconscious trying to keep you stuck. It has a positive intention, which is to keep you where you feel safe. Growing a business involves risk and putting yourself out there. This can be scary and to the subconscious it’s not a safe zone.

In order to figure out where your thinking is off, you will need to look. If you are speaking to your ideal client and they decide not to move forward with your service, the problem is you. Something is going wrong in the sales conversation. It is likely that you’re stopping yourself from asking those tougher questions because you care too much what they think of you. However, if you don’t ask those tougher questions, they will not see that they need your help and that you’re the one to provide the help.

Look at the results you’re getting/not getting and determine if you’re where you want to be. If they’re in line with your vision, then awesome! If not, take a hard look at your thinking. No one is to blame but you.

Those are some common themes that I see preventing business owners from moving forward. Running a business involves a commitment to doing whatever it takes to succeed. Are you willing to take responsibility for your life / actions / results? Once you do this, you will be amazed at what starts to happen.