Fall 2006
Have you moved towards your goals this year?
Have you already met the goals you wanted to achieve this year?
Have you taken clear steps for your success?
A working business plan is the "roadmap" to the destination you desire. It is a flexible, changing roadmap of the possibilities with notes on the road conditions and vehicle condition along the way.
We are the drivers of our destiny, so to speak and the challenge is ours as small business owners.
What road do you choose to travel?
What speed are you driving at?
Who are you impacting as you travel?
Are you enjoying the journey?
My passion is the creation of meaningful business endeavors that serve the community. As owners, we are responsible for carrying the vision and designing health and sustainability for ourselves, our families and our communities.
Wishing you joy, peace and prosperity throughout 2006. |
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June 2004
According to the SBA, 60% to 80% of the net new jobs annually are generated by small businesses who employ 39% of high tech workers and who produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large firms. Statistics show that 78% of these small businesses have fewer than 10 employees and 99% had fewer than 500.
Did you know that over 60% of small business owners do not have a written business plan? If you are in that group, there are tools to help you at www.creativestrategicconsulting.com/links.
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March 2004
March has begun with torrential rain as in, “roaring in like a lion and out like a lamb”. All this water rejuvenates, cleanses and restores the energy and brilliant growth of spring. From these outpourings and realizations new growth emerges. We arise out of the storm with fresh approaches and a new vision. Water is a great teacher. It represents fluidity, change, transformation. It is fluid, vapor and solid. It teaches us our shape shifting nature, our natural form which shapes to any container without complaint and rolls right out of broken ones. It gurgles, never stops, changes and flows with gravity.
If there are storms and rains in your business life, this is the time to release and connect with new possibilities. Water is the connector of energy, passion, emotion and natural life flow.
Can we gracefully release the old?
Can we allow what is flowing in?
Water is the ageless constant magical connector of all life forms. It teaches the magic of transformation, release and renewal. In your business life, which transformations, releases and renewals are necessary to sustain you?
As we plan our own business, the deep principles of water -fluidity of form - can guide us towards our deepest visions and goals.
Wishing you fluidity, magic and constancy in your own life transformations throughout the coming month!
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December 2003
December is the time to go into the darkest days of the year and dream the seeds of the new year. So take time to close the books, celebrate your accomplishments and prepare for the coming year. Logistically, there may also be tax benefits available for supplies and equipment purchased before December 31st.
Next, this coming year new workshops are beginning for owners, coaches and all those “soloists” who may benefit from monthly brain-storming and networking with a very select group of clients and friends.
Finally and most importantly, this newsletter is to thank everyone who has been part of my journey this past year! Thank you for letting me into your hearts, lives, concerns and businesses to learn what truly matters and share the process with you. Small business owners are the leaders of a new way of integration on this fragile planet. May this coming year continue to fulfill your dreams.
With much love and blessings for 2004!
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October 2003
The “biology of business” is a relatively new awareness striking many simultaneously. We have previously acted from a linear business model of a “dead” process. This industrial model is being countered by rapidly evolving and rapidly changing systems in the information age. Even our words have begun to reflect these new patterns of life. The internet itself has emerged as a “web”. It is one of our first models of a life designed process which responds and reacts simultaneously worldwide.
Building on this analogy, business owner by business owner have felt relief, humor and recognition of the stage they are in when I’ve shared my own perspective as an owner and consultant. As a business owner, you hold your own unique creative process and growth. But there are patterns that emerge in business after business that can become predictable. There is a “business life cycle” as well as a “product life cycle” and the words are just more clues to how similar the process mimics developmental life.
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July 2003
On the fourth of July, let's make some fireworks for the small business owners who have brought passion and right livelihood to life. It's the real backbone of the U.S. economy.
In celebrating small business, honoring independence, and creating personal entrepreneurial freedom the counterpoint is responsibility to community. In the era of great corporate greed and lack of accountability, the small business is accountable and personal. So, let’s get out the fireworks- as an expression of our passion! Not a chicken in every pot or a car in every garage, but a business in every home – now, this might restore democracy. Truly the backbone of America, the small business is a guiding light back to the highest ideals and roots of this nation. So boycott corporate purchases on the fourth and support small business owners in your community!
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Spring 2003
This is a fabulous time to go into business. The brave souls that venture forth in the current storm will be on solid ground when the California economy gets back to normal. This uncommon viewpoint is due to key factors.
First, bank rates are at a historic forty year low.
Second, talented individuals -- labor -- are available at an all time ten year low.
Third, rent is low and getting lower.
Fourth, small business is less risky than corporate.
Think about it! What is small, responsive, watching the bottom line, connected to customers and cares about the product the most? Small Businesses Focused On Success. |
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