Wim GE De Vos

Small businesses with a BIG impact

Start with the end in mind 🏁

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Start with the end in mind.
Visualising where to go.

“If your ladder is not leaning against the right wall, then every step gets you to the wrong place faster.”

Seems obvious, but what are we doing about it?

Start with who you want to be, what you want to achieve, where you want to end up. Not just in life, but every year, month, week and even every day. Even for a single meeting or negotiation.

Start with the end in mind. And then work your way back to the start. This is how objectives are achieved. How dreams  become reality.

It helps to keep your eyes 👀 on the ball 🎱. To keep perspective. To be focussed.

Reserve a few minutes every day to reflect. To visualise things. Because everything is created twice. A mental version (first) and a physical version (second).

So start with the end in mind. 🏁 And stay on track.

Recommended reading: Steven Covey – 7 habits of highly effective people.

Recruit high energy ⚡ optimists

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Small businesses looking to have a big impact rely greatly on their teams. The people on the bus. They are instrumental to your success.

And I believe high energy optimists are who you need. Much more than experience, skillsets from a curriculum or realists. Supercharged dreamers.

Optimists are people who see things that can be. And that is exactly what is always in short supply when building a small business.

High energy is required to cut through the crap and keep moving forward. To make stuff happen. And even when there are stretches where it feels you are running in the sand they have what it takes to keep going.

Do not consider anybody else to get on the bus. High energy optimists are the jedis we need.

Why start a business?

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Why start a business?

Simple question, so let´s look for a simple answer.

You want to

  1. make lots of money 💵
  2. be free and work less 🏄‍♂️
  3. have impact 💥

Pick one and organise your business in accordance.

Brutally. No compromise.

You have to pick one – the others will be a consequence of your choice.

And then when you succeed you will become either:

  1. rich
  2. free
  3. change agent

My take: choose impact 💥 and have a shot at being all 3…

Closing with this video, a Pearl of Wisdom from Apple´s history:

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

S. Jobs (1955-2011)

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Impact, this is why we play

the domino effect 🁳

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ICE Cinema “sherlock”

Let me start todays post with the answer first: The Domino Effect. 🁉

And now the 3 questions to which the domino effect is the answer…

Why do some simple habits trigger other more powerful ones?

The domino effect proves it is within your power to spark a chain reaction of good habits by building new behaviours that naturally lead to the next successful action. There is an astounding interconnectedness between the systems of life and human behaviour is no exception.

The inherent relatedness of things is a core reason why choices in one area of life can lead to surprising results in other areas, regardless of the plans you make.

Why do I blog?

When a friend of mine asked why I started blogging daily I explained: the domino effect it has on how I live my day.

By blogging daily I am creating a self-discipline and consistency around daily learning moments. I start from the premise there must be something interesting to learn and share every day.

So I created a habit of reading, observing and analysing at least 1 thing every day that is worth learning. So I keep my mind and eyes wide open so I am more aware and conscious for this daily learning moment.

And then I write it down and share it publicly. This implies I have to think the learning moment through and structure it into small understandable tasty pieces 🍕.

How do you create a successful channel business?

An example. Today I spent half a day with Mr S., a new sales partner for ICE cinema (one of the cool ventures I am deeply involved with – mixed reality spaces etc…).

I passionately explained everything I know on the subject. Transmitted not just my knowledge on the product but also on the market, clients and logic behind why people an ICE cinema.

While I share my passion for how an ICE cinema really delivers on the promise of the suspension of disbelief and how it becomes the families favourite room in the house I am actually applying the power of the domino effect. I am helping to create yet another domino that will have a positive effect. Another small business that will have a BIG impact.

That is how you build a successful channel business. One domino at a time.

✌🏼 out. W

 

 

Unlimited bowling 🎳

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unlimited bowling

Just turned 45 and so reviewed my score in the small business unlimited bowling 🎳 league.

  • I set up businesses that i ran
  • I set up businesses that i did not run
  • I ran businesses that i did not set up
1 went bust
2 I exited and doing well
2 I exited with a nice profit
2 where I am an active investor. Enjoying the solid returns until I can exit.
2 are in start up phase and looking promising
2 are knocking it out of the park and starting to scale
3 in embryonic phase putting the pieces together
🎳
I will keep doing unlimited bowling, and practice various shots. Get better every few games. Work on the risky splits.
🎳
And above all bowl without remorse…