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Personal Strategic Plan

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How do you create a personal strategic plan? How do you live your life with purpose and direction?

1️⃣ Determine what you ultimately want to do with your life. My Want: Travel first class, sightsee, and play golf.

2️⃣ Determine how you could get someone to pay for that, so you don’t have to. My Plan: Companies pay for a day-long visit of coaching, speaking, and training. I stay in that area for a week, sightseeing and golfing.

3️⃣ Determine what you have to look like for someone to pay for that. My Expectation: Companies will pay for a published #author and accomplished #speaker with a #PhD, strong business #experience, and #certifications, who had a strong #network of connections.

4️⃣ Determine the gap between where you are and how long it will take to get there. My Gap: No degree, never published, only experience in the military, strong military network only, just starting out with Toastmasters, and no certifications. Estimated time to close the gap: 20 years.

Developing your personal strategic plan is really just that simple.

20 years ago, I started on my journey — a journey of living my life with purpose and direction; not on autopilot.

Interested in learning more…message me.

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Reopening

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What’s your plan  to reopen your business? Do you even have one? 路‍♂️

Do you feel you even need a plan?

What’s a business to do…just reopen their doors and start serving customers again?

What precautions should you take?

Will your employees come back or do you need to hire and train new ones?

Will you be busy or slow?

How will people know you’re open?

Last week, I visited a restaurant that has reopened. It was lunch on Sunday.

Everything shined it was so clean.

On every table, they had paper napkins, a clear spray bottle of some liquid (unmarked), and a bunch of individual hand sanitizer gel packs.

I could see that some if the tables had been moved — probably six foot rule.

Our waiter wore a mask (all employees did)…no gloves. The bartenders wore gloves.

All total, aside from the two of us, there were nine patrons — yea, I counted.

Visible employees were a hostess, two waiters, two bartenders, and a manager.

The manager came by to thank us for visiting…he wore his mask under his nose to breathe better.

Do you think they had a plan?

If they did, do you think they were following it?

Should a business, reopening after the COVID Lockdown, have a plan to reopen?

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Does Your Internet Suck?

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How’s your internet service holding up during these times?

We live out on our horse ranch, north of San Antonio TX. I wouldn’t say that we live in the country, but we’re certainly not in any city limits.

Right now, internet service is massively important.

And honestly, our service could be a lot better.

Last night, we were doing a group mentoring session over Zoom and my connection was horribly unstable and kept dropping.

How many other people are finding their internet service has become their Achilles Heal during these trying times?

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Change Readiness

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Was your company ready for this current change or is it reacting and thus managing the change?

Cigar Talk with Crosscutter Enterprises is back.

If you are managing #change in today’s business world, you are probably behind the times and late to the party.

In today’s business world, changes are hitting companies in such a way that they simply can’t keep up.

The old world of managing change is long gone.

But being ready for change is a lot more of up front work — much like planning — and many companies don’t take that time to make it happen.

Change readiness is like growing grass. If you have a plot of weed-filled dirt, simply throwing grass seed on the ground and watering it probably won’t be too successful.

You need to remove the weeds, till the dirt, fertilize the ground, and then spread your seeds for best results.

What are you doing now to ensure you business is ready for the changes after the coronavirus crisis is over?

Change Readiness starts with building awareness, desire, knowledge, and ability early.

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Contingency Planning

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How important is disaster and contingency planning for your business … now? 

In 2016, my wife and I opened our horse farm. We also started an equitherapy-for-vets nonprofit.

One of the requirements for accreditation of the nonprofit was to establish contingency plans to mitigate potential risks.

After 21 years in the military and 7 years as a war planner, I fully understood the importance on risk mitigation through disaster and contingency planning.

Even though we’re a small business, we have plans in place for Flooding, Freeze, and Fire. The Flooding and Freeze plans have been used every year since we opened.

We never imagined that Pandemic would be on the list!

However, what we found is that we were able to pull out our plans and were able to quickly pull key aspects of the existing plans to create a quick response to deal with this crisis.

Did your business have any formal contingency plans going into this? Have you ever considered business risks and devised mitigation strategies.

No one could have planned for a Pandemic, except maybe the World Health Organization. However, planning is still quite important.

If you don’t have any contingency planning, what are you going to do about it today?

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What’s your routine?

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Ok work-at-home warriors, what routine have you established or are you still struggling to figure it out?

When we go into an office every day, we normally have a pretty specific routine.

 We wake at a certain time.

☕ We have our morning coffee, maybe a light breakfast.

 We get the kids off to school.

‍♂️ We try to navigate the morning traffic at a certain time.

 We get ourselves situated in the office for the day.

Well, for many of us, that routine is gone right now.

So what’s the new routine you’re putting in place, or are you trying to keep the old one?

Are you struggling with your routine right now?

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Sunday Success LinkedIn Tip

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Are you looking  to increase and improve your use of LinkedIn during this pandemic crisis? 濫

Here is a LinkedIn-specific Sunday Success tip.

All connections are not created equal.

The connections you want are connections that will engage with you and expand for network.

Pick a specific type of connection you want — let’s use Purchasing Agent as an example.

Type “Purchasing Agent” into the search bar and then select “People” as a filter.

This will give you a list of people with Purchasing Agent in their job title.

Then, check each person out and see how many connections they have and if they have any Activity.

If they don’t have any Activity, then they’ll probably never read your stuff and clearly won’t engage with you.

Choose your connections wisely.

Send a personal invite to those that look like they will engage.

Have a great Sunday!

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What Will Change?

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How will our  world change due to the coronavirus ⛑ crisis?

My Predictions:

More people will find remote online employment versus employment in a brick and mortar business.

Businesses will also move more to remote workers and reduce their costly footprints.

Homeschooling is going to step up for sure.

If teaching K-12 remotely works, people are going to question the public burden of costly infrastructure–we might see physical campuses simplyngo away.

Grocery and supplies delivery will significantly increase.

People will store more nonperishable food and consumables in their homes.

Expect more home downsizing.

Eating at home and healthier will increase.

The streaming video industry will grow significantly to serve much more people — things like movie theaters will decline.

Trust in government will hit the single digits.

Your thoughts?

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Winner Takes It All!

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Does winning matter … sure. I can’t dispute that. But how? 🙉🙈🙊

‼ This update is going to piss a few people off that I know. 🤬 Oh well…

People, who don’t want you to win, care how you did it.

People, who want you to win, don’t care how you did it.

Those, who don’t want you to win, see how you’re winning, how you’re getting away with it, and also how you’re being recognized for it.

So, they start doing it as well.

Case in point: “Amazon Best Seller” 🔖

This garbage started before 2010. Forever, I thought it meant that your book simply out sold every other book in its category and was number one on Amazon … for a day or so.

That category could be very obscure. But, it doesn’t have to be. Because, I learned the many ways authors were convincing a lot of people to buy their book (often a $0.99 ebook) in one day — they game the system.

I have been told many times, by both authors and friends, I should do it too.

Recently I learned that some authors are calling #2 on Amazon a Best Seller … as is #14. Basically, if someone says it’s a Best Seller, then it is. Mainly, because there is no way to disprove it.

This is what people consider “Winning.”

Not me…

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