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What coloured day are you having? (PART 3)

By on June 3, 2009 in Mindset

Today we’re talking about an ORANGE day. Every one has to work on administration in their business. It’s a part that many people don’t enjoy and often leave it up to others.

They don’t really delegate it. They simply give it to someone else and hope that it goes away. More often than not this does not lead to a good result. If you are delegating administration to others then you’ll still need to check that it is done correctly and you should also review the results and reports produced to make sure you know what is actually going on in your business.

My suggestion is that you do this on a particular day of the week. Set aside a day, or half day when you say to yourself ‘I’m having an ORANGE day today.’ This will help you focus on a job many business owners don’t like doing. So what happens when we have no ORANGE days?

A black one is just around the corner because your business will get into a mess administratively and then something major will go wrong because you forgot to do something.

May be the phone or power gets cut off
or you get a letter from the tax department
or you get an eviction notice from your landlord because you forgot to pay the rent.

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What coloured day are you having? (PART 1)

By on May 22, 2009 in Mindset

Colour is such an important part of the way we bring vibrancy to our lives. I remember back to black and white television (which shows you how old I am) and the day when I first saw colour. Everything seemed so much more real and vibrant.

In developing our whole system called The Financial Fence® I have learnt the value of colour and as a result found that many people learn more by the association of colour than numbers and words.

So in this little series of blog posts I’m going to look at the three colours that make up the activity on the fence and associate them to the kind of day you might be having.

So there are three different types of day you may be having as a business owner:

  1. A SKY BLUE day – this is the kind of day when you’re interacting with your customers.
  2. An ORANGE day when you’re working on administration , process and efficiency.
  3. A GREEN day when you’re working ON your business rather than IN your business.

Many times you may be having a day when all the colours are merged together and you feel in a bit of a mess. That is probably a black day for you.

If you’re having one of those days then the best thing to do is take a deep breath. Count to ten. Put two of the three colours away for the day and focus on only one of them.

You’ll find this will really help you and , you know, there’s always another day to bring out the other colours and get the value from them.

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