I understand. Please let me know if I can help you at all.

Dawud,

I have been going through a tough personal time at home with too many cries for my attention. Your question only ‘clarifies’ for me more how much MORE patience I need to be where I want to be.

How do I do what I do?? Well I dont and I cant. FORTUNATELY, my day is so packed with interruptions, that I am going to have to write a post soon about how my business goals are going to have to be redefined to compliment my current reality – falling asleep in the middle of writing this comment while I nurse my baby.

I am clear about one thing. I dont want to rush 10 years from now. I want to live today. I’ll try to let you know what I come up with .

All the best..

Stuart

Yes…that’s my experience as well. Word-of-mouth is the most powerful way to spread your business. And it’s the relationships that grow word-of-mouth.

Andrea,

They are another great source of content. That’s why I love having these conversations with you and everyone else.

You’re never interrupting – only adding. So please jump in to any conversation whenever and wherever you like.

With the focus, I think of not seeing the whole picture. It’s like drilling down to the minutia of details. But with clarity it’s like wipe away the dirt from the window so that your view through the window is less obstructed.

It’s these obstructions that get in the way of us identifying and growing our business.

So, how do you do what you do?

Having just commented on your prior post, I find it funny that STUART writes…

‘Whoa, I am seeing new Blogs here’

So these comments are another source of good content!
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I feel like I am interrupting a conversation here, so please excuse me ,

I LOVED this post.. I just loved that you used the word clarity instead of Focus.. I am getting so sick and tired of focusing!!

Can you (no pun intended) ‘clarify’ this paragraph ?

“Next I ask myself (and my clients) how: how do you do what you do. I can’t even begin to express how much my business changed when I took a long look at not just what it is I do, but how I do it. My eyes opened to things about my business that I never had considered. And I’ve watched this in many of my clients over the years.”

Thanks!

AND, those referrals were usually great, usually people of similar caliber to the people I had developed the good relationships with. Plus, the new customers came in already having some degree of faith in me through their friends.

Whoa, I am seeing new blogs here….

Thanks.

Stuart

That’s what I thought. And that’s the key. Some of us build relationships because we want referrals. Others of us build relationships to help each other, mutually, in any way that organically manifests itself. This way doesn’t always lead directly to business. And it ultimately leads to more business than just building a referral base.

Stuart