Is your light on?

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You and your Thing take people on a journey and deliver them to their destination (the result you give)—and, just like a taxi, you might be missing opportunities to help people if you only have your light on in the obvious places.

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What’s your measure?

There’s plenty of measures you can measure in your business. And only one of them is money. And, in fact, if you’re smart you actually know that it’s never about ‘the money’, it’s about profit which is the money left over after you’ve paid for everything else. So for sure, measure your profit (and make sure you have some!) if you want to see how your business is doing.

But there are other measures too…

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Is anybody there?

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Very often there are more people listening, reading, following, watching, and noticing you than you may realise. But too often we can worry about ‘what we see’ and not what we don’t see.

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Take 2(00)

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Now I love my Thing, as I know you do too. And here’s the thing about your Thing: when it’s brilliant, it’s your responsibility to share it—over and over again.

To just do your Thing once isn’t going to help everyone who needs your Thing. And every time you deliver your Thing you need to do it brilliantly.

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About your about

I’ve carried out some not-very-scientific research of About descriptions from websites and other places, and I conclude that we definitely want to hear about your Thing, but we also want to know about you

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Slower is better than stopping

Today I went for my first ‘proper’ run in a long time (that’s running for the sake of running, not because I’m cutting it fine to catch my train). I’m married to a ‘proper runner’ who ‘pops out for a 10k’ 2 or 3 times a week, so it’s a little intimidating when I know my ‘run’ could be outpaced by a walk at times. But when you decide on something you want to do, it’s a good idea to just do it–any way you can.

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