Comments on: Small Business Advice: Focus on What Matters Most

By: Data Processing Services

Data Processing Services — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:44:40 +0000

I agree with the thoughts that your business will grow only to the extent your visualization.

By: Data entry

Data entry — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:05 +0000

I focus my job what i am doing, it is most important thing which is keep on surrounding in my brain. Thanks for you’r for this blog.

By: Heating Buffalo NY

Heating Buffalo NY — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:24:08 +0000

No doubt: you are spot on when you say that what is focused on will grow most. I couldn’t agree more with that. And conversely, what you ignore is destined to fail.

By: Data Entry

Data Entry — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:07:03 +0000

I’m pretty obsessive so I know that if I get on something – my brain takes off. Right now I’m on SEO – driving myself crazy! Thanks for your thoughts.

By: Mari Adkins

Mari Adkins — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:12:21 +0000

““what you focus on expands.”” I needed that today. Thanks!!

By: How to do anything

How to do anything — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:58:44 +0000

That Guy Jerry Andress is too much. I really see your point though. In essence your business will grow only to the extent your brain visualizes it.

By: Bill Austin

Bill Austin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:49 +0000

My brain has been telling me that lots of new business would be appearing soon if we just kept working the plan. My wife kept saying “Why aren’t you worried?”

“What good does that do?” I asked.

The work is flowing in again and if we get two more decent sized jobs we will be back in hiring mode.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:35:05 +0000

Kelly,
So you know I have to ask… what’s one thought you have about your business that you can prove is an illusion?

Nate,
Without getting into how we’re inspired to create or who creates through us, our minds are the fertile ground for creating. Just look around, so many amazing things we have today because of minds looking at problems from different perspectives.

Thoughts?

Tommy,
Thinking positively sure does help, I believe. Yet can you just think away your business problems or is something more needed?

Shari,
True. Yet thinking is only the first and second step. The creation step happens through action. So after we think we should ask – what are we going to ‘do!”?

Laura,
Exactly. And hence, you’ll crash. Same with your business. If you spend your time on the periphery, you’ll end up there – crashed.

Brad,
Oh do I have some posts on that concept – including on marketing, negotiating terms, pricing and sales. Thanks for reminding me.

James,
It’s not that you can’t trust your brain. But rather to be successful as a business owner, you need to push past it’s perceptions to see things with different eyes.

By: James at Coinadrink

James at Coinadrink — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:04:40 +0000

It’s true, you can’t trust your brain check out this post on the Bad Astronomy Blog http://www.badastronomy.com/ba.....-illusion/

By: Brad Shorr

Brad Shorr — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:34:29 +0000

Thought provoking conversation. Recently finished a book on investing by Kenneth Fisher, “The Only Three Questions That Count”, and he makes the point over and over about how our mindset can make us oblivious to what’s really going on. Therefore we miss opportunities staring us in the face. You have to force yourself to question everything.

By: Laura Spencer

Laura Spencer — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:07:15 +0000

This makes a lot of sense.

In fact, the post reminds me of a similar principle I learned when my Dad was teaching me to drive – if you watch something along the side of the road you’ll start heading towards it.

By: Shari Voigt

Shari Voigt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:16:52 +0000

Very interesting presentation. Thank you! I agree that how we think about something directly affects its outcome. Taking this one step deeper, it becomes an issue of thinking about what you’re thinking about. As you said, what you focus about in your business will expand. Thankfully, we all have within us the power/capability to change our focus and improve our lives and businesses.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:47:05 +0000

It is amazing how optical illusions work. It is always best to think positively, because thinking negatively can only end badly, so why not think positively and have a higher chance of success!

By: Nate Nead

Nate Nead — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:59:52 +0000

This reminds me of two things: first, the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill and second the Bible verse which states, “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” So much can be said of the state of mind. It’s much more powerful than I think we put it out to be.

By: Kelly @ Pass the Torch

Kelly @ Pass the Torch — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:42:54 +0000

Last month I saw that sculpture in your first picture. It’s truly awesome – my whole family was mesmerized by it. And it’s an excellent illustration of perspective.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:26:45 +0000

chadwyck,
They can. Yet don’t you think the important thing here is to be willing to look? Be willing to learn and change? Otherwise, how do you see the box differently?

Free,
So how would that apply to your business?

DaveMurr,
So true. We can take different paths to how it works, but what you focus on is what will likely come to pass.

Try this…walk in a direction looking straight-ahead as you usually would. Now turn your head to the right and continue walking on the straight way you had previous. Do this for 30 steps and tell me what happens.

Colleen,
Exactly. Where you put your attention is where you’ll have the greatest affect.

What’s one thing that’s changing in your business based on having this new perspective?

Tamal,
Thanks. Any further thoughts?

membership,
How will this change the way you think about your business?

Cookie,
How has your beliefs affected your business?

Hendry,
It is amazing. Yet if you nail your niche, it’s likely everything you need. Wouldn’t you agree?

Orlando,
It’s so easy to get ’stuck’ in our ideas of how things work. Yet things are changing all the time. So it’s easy, and odd, at the same time. If things are changing, so are we. But do we really honor, or even experience, own changes in perception?

Even more important, do we act on them?

By: Orlando Real Estate Girl

Orlando Real Estate Girl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:51:25 +0000

Interesting how we are designed to automatically make assumptions based on our own experiences.

Stepping out of our own boxes and stretching our imagination and pushing our own boundaries is something far more difficult than we think.

Great post.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:48 +0000

When I got started online, I was underestimating the power of niche marketing. Even a small and obscure niche could be very profitable online.

Instead of jumping from one niche to another, I now try to drill deep instead. It is amazing how many marketers are working on the small business owners niche, but yet no one can possibly dominate it.

Great post. Stumbled.

By: Cookie Diet

Cookie Diet — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:40:50 +0000

Amazing isn’t it ? And scary, in a way. Our brain, the vessel of our soul so to speak can be so easily manipulated and deceived… It’s scary until you realize you can manipulate it in your favor Thanks for the article.

By: membership site script

membership site script — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:04 +0000

This is a great thought. I love the video, amazing how they could trick our brains..great post there. It really open my mind.