CREATING THE INFLOW OF MONEY
BUSINESS, CAREER, WORK
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CONTENTS: Be sure to review the FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES section, for books
and useful websites and other resources.
BUSINESS - Including MLM and money making schemes. Also planning and success.
Marketing
WORK - How you work makes a huge difference in your life.
See also: SUCCESS
For more references, see the
Recommended Websites and Services website page and
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND TAPES website page.
BUSINESS (Several books are recommended. See Recommended Books and Tapes and
order via our link to Amazon.com. You should pay particular attention first to
setting up a viable, written business plan and include a great, complete marketing
plan!) We cannot be successful in business without using the principles of
SUCCESS. See also the Steps To Success in that section. It is essential to do
excellent planning as in the resources cited below; see The Planning Notebooks.
Networking For Advice - One of the strongest ways of developing a real network and/or
reaching solutions/objectives.
Own Your Own Business Or Work For An Organization - What are the realistic
tradeoffs? You'll be able to see them "at a glance" and do a realistic evaluation
of which way would really work best for you.
checklist to see if you are ready to go up to the success stage and beyond
some choices that are more workable and some combinations that multiply your
net profits.
Books: Six-week Start-Up, Rhonda Abrams. Excellent forms and guidance.
What Business Should I Start?, Rhonda Abrams. Objective and should help you
figure out whether or not to go into a new business. See website, below.
Creativity
How To Get Ideas, Jack Foster
Website: www.planningshop.com For planning forms, including pre-set up spreadsheets.
Includes Rhonda Abrams books and materials (with pre-set up Excel worksheets)
for your business plan.
Sage advice and business principles: See Resources.
www.strategiccoach.com - Managing your business life more productively. Brilliant.
Consulting: Contact the Business school at your local university to find out about
consultants. Often they will have retired businessman doing consulting for small
businesses at no cost. An example would be S.C.O.R.E. at California State
University Sacramento.
Marketing:
The Two Elements To Successfully Have People Do Something - This is simple and
appropriate and fits into personal and business relationships. This "marketing
insight" by a business marketing professor to "remove the barriers" to buying was
used by me to produce ease and more success, more so that any other single
strategy.
CAREER - If this is an area of interest, you should set up a notebook for the project. Since it is the same process, you should make sure you follow the Stages of a Business, above.
DOING THIS COMPLETELY AND RIGOROUSLY IS ESSENTIAL - SO THAT YOU'LL MAKE
THE RIGHT DECISION AHEAD OF TIME. IT IS SO VERY COSTLY TO GO DOWN THE
WRONG PATH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS - DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE MANY PEOPLE
MAKE! THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT IT IS APPROPRIATE TO HIRE A PROFESSIONAL!
JOB HUNTING - KEY POINTS - Do it right and use the most effective means!
Choosing A Career - What am I suited for, interested in, natural talents, etc.
Looking At A Career Change - Look at the tradeoffs and balance these. Here's how
to make the decision.
Networking For Advice - Perhaps the strongest way of generating a great job.
My Accomplishment Stories (Should be added to your "About Me" Notebook)
Classes: Take a class, from such organizations as local learning exchanges. In Sacramento,
see the career classes at the Learning Exchange.
Tests: Strengths - Find these out and match them to your job for much greater happiness!
Go to authentichappiness.org for the (free) test.
Website: Jobfindersbible.com - The website for the renowned Richard Bolles (What Color Is
Your Parachute, which you should buy).
Sage advice and business principles: See Resources.
www.strategiccoach.com - Managing your business life more productively. Brilliant.
Books: Talent - Develop It, Sell It, Be It, Tom Peters
See Recommended Books in this area
Services: Constance Stevens, Career Paths - Excellent references, 18+ years of experience.
530 758 5545
WORK Work can be fulfilling or it can be a drag. You can shift this to work in your favor.
See also "Career" (above) for ways to fit what works for you into your work.
Book: The Soul of Work: A Quest For the Transcendent, S. Louise Underdahl - An excellent look
at altering both your attitude AND changing the content of your work for greater
fulfillment and/or happiness. (Please go to our Recommended Books page and order
this through our link with Amazon.com, so that we will receive a small fee to help pay
for the website.)
