Work from home or work in an office?
May 24, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
Work from home wins for me. My gosh, it has been a long time since I have worked outside of the home. Returning to the workforce model of being based in a central office is so alien to me. However, the switch that has occurred between us results in Paul saying that work from home is alien to him – he wants to work in an office not connected to our home.
I am a control freak. Paul is worried that whatever he does for me will not be good enough. But, I have come home so tired the last few days that I have not even assessed his work or noticed if things are done to my standard. What a wonderful place to be in. I am just grateful that he has done stuff for me 
Thank you, darling.
So, for those of you who are considering working from home and looking for a business that will not cost you the earth, consider a home based business in self development. I may not contact you back but Paul or another of my business associates will.
Google services and how they help bloggers and webmasters
April 28, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
Get a business web site with a blog: I will build it for you (see, Cheap Website Development) and help situate your site in best place for being picked up by the Google gods (this means more traffic, and sales, quicker).
Websites make a business visible. Blogs make the business globally accessible. Blogging also helps to improve your site’s placement in Google search results. The more you blog about your business, products, sales, initiatives or projects, the more the Googlebots will be well fed by your content and keep coming back for more. It’s the bread crumb principle for attracting birds.
I have a bloggers manual that I wrote to service add and provide to people whose web sites with blogs that I build – a free atlas of the blogosphere and a “how to blog” step by step tutorial. There is one very worthy piece of information that I mistakenly left out of the bloggers manual though: Google accounts.
Google offers a number of free services that aid web site and blog circulation, once you have opened a free Google account. Here are two very important Google services that I recommend you each become familiar with and use to increase your ranking and your traffic:
Is business blogging contagious?
I use my site as a business tool – an advertising and marketing spring board. Affordable and effective, I cannot imagine having a business without a blog. Four years ago when I began blogging for other people, my Australian counterparts thought me quite strange. Three years ago when I developed my own blog connected to my web site, my colleagues thought me curious yet twisted…why would I spend so much time on a non income producing activity, they pondered. Nowadays, the contagion has spread and my colleagues are asking for help to get their blogs happening….I willingly assist (with help from Andrew Tunney and the fantastic mad hatter graphically brilliant Sammi).
Meet my two new bloggers in arms: Brenda from Leading Edge Personal Development and Jennifer from Running on Empathy. These two amazing women are fantastic at what they do and will now globally circulate the magic of their words and business brains. Congratulations to them and congratulations to the world that will experience Brenda and Jenifer.
Pop on over and welcome Brenda and Jennifer to their new blogospheric neighbourhood. Leave them a comment so that they can follow you back to your house and have a look at your wares.
Accountability partners holding me accountable for short term goal achievement
March 26, 2009 by Megan · 6 Comments
Working toward a short term goal is easy. Having a partner that you are responsible to for the steps toward your goal is somewhat more challenging. I have a small group of accountability partners and they scare me into doing what I say I am going to do. I keep my goals!
The thesis behind accountability partners is that they measure out a negotiated punishment (yes, I said punishment) if the subject fails to do what they said they were going to do. It’s all about the subject putting their money where their mouth is and making the consequence (punishment) of not meeting that goal much more horrible than just doing what they said they were going to do. This is what elite performers do…they do what they say they are going to do!
This is the antithesis of all that I have ever enacted. I prefer to operate from a positive and reward good behaviour paradigm (most of the time…I make no claims about being perfect though). But….this whole punishment and accountability partner deal works for me because I so do not want to lose face in front of my peers or seem as a failure.
Hence, along with my Business mastermind group and partners in being an elite performer, I now make the world my accountability partner. I am going to share my three short term goals for the next week and what I negotiated as my enforceable punishments for not reaching my goal.
- Business goal: To face to face prospect a person I do not know. This involves me approaching them and telling them about my business and business services and products. The enforceable punishment for not achieving this most scary goal is that I will not blog for a seven day period (you may laugh, but this is a severe and very public punishment for me…the whole world will know I failed if I do not blog for seven days).
- Health goal: To walk every day for a week (7 days) for at least 30 minutes. The punishment for not meeting this goal is that I will attend a 1 hour gym session for every day that I fail to walk. While I can lie to you guys and pretend that I went to the gym, my on the ground accountability partners will come to the gym and watch me sweat it out. That aint gonna happen so I’ll do the daily walking!
- Personal goal: To use a mind clearing method and be non resistant (aka, to not pick a fight) to my husband and the things he does that I do not agree with. The punishment for breaking this goal, even just once, is that I wash the dishes (his usual job) for seven days in a row. Again, this is a hated task for me and something I do not want to do. Will I use a clearing technique and become non resistant…yep!
Starting right now, I am an elite performer because I do what I say I am going to do. Elite performers pay a balanced attention to three core areas of life: business, health and personal. What three short terms goals are you willing to be held accountable to this week?
For further information on giving yourself the highest possibility of predictable success, see Bob Davies book The 1.2% Factor – The science of how the small change of accountability leads to large results!
Staying positive in the global economic crisis
March 18, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
Look to the elders and the classics for their advice on surviving the global economic crisis.
Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
I know that on my death bed I will not be saying, “Gee, I wish I was more frugal during the global economic crisis of 2009.” Rather, I will be saying, “I love that I lived my life with passion, integrity and a daring nature of doing business, and life, differently.”
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Reframe every life adversity as an opportunity for self improvement and personal growth.
Step up as the leader you inherently are: be, do, have.
Congratulations to an energetic and charismatic Andrew Griffiths (who is neither an elder or a classic, but look to him anyway) on his Be Inspired seminar in Cairns last night. Packed to the rafters and overflowing at the seams, Andrew Griffiths dared to put a little law of attraction into traditional business in our untraditional global times. A review will follow here in the next few days, for now though, enjoy Andrew’s slides and Be Inspired.
Just as a few bad lending decisions in the United States have echoed around the globe and affected every country on the planet, so too can a few positive decisions in Cairns echo around the world and affect every country on the planet. Positivity is contagious so step up out of your comfort zone today – it costs nothing to engage with another human being and smile at them.
And remember: if you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. If you get on stage at one of Andrew Griffiths’ events you get off with a Pineapple….not flea powder! Was refreshing to watch “how to use a pineapple” in a way traditional pineapple business eaters never thought possible It’s all about doing things differently 
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