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From Jeff Glaze

Jeff Glaze
Editor



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It's Over!

The holidays, that is. Now we have to get on with our lives and our businesses. We hope that your holidays were good and that you are ready to plow into the new year with a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm.

I would like to share with you a customer service story that happened to me last night.

Yesterday was my birthday and my wife decided to take me to dinner. We went to On the Border mexican restaurant in Duluth and minutes after we arrived, we had placed our order. As we sat and talked and ate chips, we were distracted and did not notice that thirty minutes had passed and we still did not have our food.

It did seem like it was taking forever, but I was not watching the time when our waitress came up and apologized and told us that the cook had thought that our food was already done and the order had been thrown away.

She quickly added that they were sorry and that our dinner tonight was on the house!

She walked away and minutes later the manager came by and repeated the apology stating that anything else that we wanted was also on the house. When our food finally arrived it seemed to taste extra good, knowing it was free. When our waitress came by to see if we needed anything else, she insisted that I have dessert since it was my birthday, but I was too stuffed to have it.

The bottom line here was that I did not have to say a word about not getting good service. I did not have to complain at all. When they realized that they had made a mistake, they not only corrected it, but went to a lot of trouble to make sure that we were satisfied.

Not only will I eat there again, I suggest you stop by there sometime in the future as well. It is the restaurant near gwinnett Place Mall on Pleasant Hill Rd.

You see, great customer service can equal great referrals.

We have some good articles for you this week, be sure to read them.


Jeff Glaze
www.AtlantaEvent.com Editor

Seminar not to be missed!

You had your new year's resolution all planned out. This was your year to "insert your missed goal here" :-). You knew exactly what you needed to do; maybe you even got off to a blazing start!

You were absolutely sure this was going to be your year! This goal is as good as in the bag you thought. Then - BAM! - You suddenly realized that your goal is nowhere in sight.

Does this sound familiar?

If you answered yes let me assure you that you're not alone. If this has happened to you, here’s an approach that might help the next time around. Reaffirm to yourself that most things are accomplished when we're able to form habits around them.

Much in the same way that negative habits transpire in our lives, so too can we choose to introduce positive ones. The thing you have to remember is that habits are formed through repetition.

Clearly defining your goals is just one step towards attaining them. Equally important is forming habits that go along with the dreams you've set for yourself. "How do I form habits," you ask? It has been said that after 21 days of solid repetition we can create habits around what we desire.

That's correct - just 21 days, but it has to be a solid 21 days (give or take a few). If you find yourself skipping the intended event right before it becomes a habit, you've missed the pattern it often takes and you should plan on starting over as though it were day one again.

In the grand scheme of things, 21 days is not that much of a sacrifice. It may be a bit inconvenient, but the vast number of gains you'll receive should be well worth it.

So the next time you can't quite figure out why you couldn't stick with your intended goal, ask yourself if you were able to stay with it long enough to truly make it a habit.

If the answer was no, now is as good a time as any to get on the ball and develop that habit pattern that will lead to your eventual achievement.

Here's to your success, Josh Hinds

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Josh Hinds of http://GetMotivation.com specializes in helping people to achieve maximum success and live the life of their dreams. He is also the co-founder of http://AudioMotivation.com

TIME MANAGEMENT IS A WASTE OF TIME!

© Steven Beaudoin Jr.
www.Learn2M.com

www.besomeone.org
"Helping Children
One Move At A Time"

That’s right, I said it and I’m sticking to my guns… for the most part. While speaking to a group of small business owners recently I asked what was the number one issue limiting their potential for success. Universally, the answer was time.

Their complaints were: there just simply isn’t enough of time, there aren’t enough hours in the day, and they just can’t find the time to do everything that needs to be done. “Hogwash!” was my response. There has to be enough time in the day because no one has ever figured out how to get more than 24 hrs from a single day; I think.

What about you? Is there enough time in your day? I hope so because you get 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week and 8736 hours a year just like the rest of us. So what do you mean you can’t find the time? Well where is it. You've got it or at least you should have it. Because I’m fairly certain that those of us that are still here each day are issued one standard 24 hour block. That’s 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds. That’s a whole lot of time to keep up with, maybe you just misplaced yours. Well you need to find it. So, where is it?

Why can’t we find the time to do what really needs to be done? Aren’t our days scheduled down to the minute? Don’t we have enough day-timers, calendar watches, phone alarms, contact management software, meeting coordinators, and web based scheduling to make the most of each day? Shouldn’t that be enough? Well, what if it is more than enough? What if it’s too much?

As a small business coach, I often marvel at just how much time my clients actually spend simply trying to figure out how to better manage their time. How many hours, days, weeks, and months of our time do we spend learning and integrating new software, gadgets, and time management techniques? What if we are actually investing more time than we can ever get back from these new tips, tools, and toys? The phrase, "Penny wise and Pound foolish" seems to apply here.

Don't get me wrong, these time management resources do have their place but that place should be somewhere in line behind Faith, Focus, Commitment, Discipline, and Accountability. So I guess time management isn’t so much a waste of time as it is a poor substitute for a Clarity of Purpose. Have you ever turned off your phones, watches, PDAs, and laptop long enough to achieve a moment of clarity? If you have you can attest that one moment of clarity is worth a whole month of time management.

If we could just figure out what we really want to do on a macroscopic scale and commit ourselves to it whole heartedly, micro-managing our time wouldn't be nearly as big an issue. If we could just learn to focus on our most important tasks first, our time would be free to just take care of itself.

I wonder how much wasted time you could overcome if you were driven by a single, unified purpose? I wonder which is more important, a day-timer stuffed to capacity with meetings and phone calls scheduled out to the minute or an unwavering commitment to reach an ultimate destination? Maybe we should be less concerned about what we are going to do with each minute of our lives and be more concerned with what we are simply going to do with our life.

Here’s a thought. If you can find the time, maybe, you should schedule a few minutes sometime this week so you can figure out what you really want to do with your life or your business? Whatever it is... you better hurry, because you may be running out of time.
© Steven Beaudoin Jr., Atlanta, GA. All rights reserved.

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Motivational speaker, Inspirational coach, & Spoken word artist Steven “Bo” Beaudoin Jr., is a champion of clarity, focus, commitment, and change. Bo inspires and directs individuals, groups, and business leaders to take the blinders off and embrace the rhythm of change. To experience the power of a FREE 30-minute coaching session visit www.learn2m.com. To hear Bo’s spoken word CD visit: www.need2m.org and www.Learn2M.com