• Tip on— “How you make your office functional for you.”...
Creating a separate space is important to be able to function and focus in my home based business. For some who are working from a kitchen/dining room table or bedroom that is used for sleeping, you will have trouble creating a “sanctified space for work only.” My answer, at the end of the day and beginning of the day, put IT away. For me, I close the doors to my computer work station and close the door to my...• Tip on Education —“Getting Free Information”...
To get educated and give back to your community volunteer for a non-profit organization. The only cost you will incur is your time. Early in my career I did a lot of work for non-profits. It gave me life experiences that would have come to me much later in life. I now use those experiences and am able to build on those. Non-profits mostly have less money to invest in personnel than the private sector for profit...• Tip on balancing family / business...
The simplest way to balance family and business is to be clear on the difference so that you schedule high value activities for each. My work day is 7:30 AM to 5:00. After 5:00 PM is “Family Time.” Saturday and Sunday is “Family Time,” which includes high value activities for dinners, long walks, special events, exercise, and calm. Gerry Rose runs INTEGRITY Networking Solutions in Oceanside, CA. He works...• Tip on relationships in business/career...
The rules for relationships in business and your career are the same as in any other place in life. The most simply put are the rules that Dale Carnegie listed in 1936. They include the six ways of making people like you, the twelve ways of winning people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without giving or arousing resentment. For the details, pick-up a copy of his book How to Win Friends and...Turning Passion into Action!...
Being Able to Jump Out of Bed Every Day Knowing You Never Ever Have to Work Again! To many of you it sounds like a dream that will never come true. Jumping out of bed every day knowing that you will never ever have to work again for many is a reality. When you can turn passion into action that dream is reality! Let me tell you about Nick, whom I met last evening. A young man, at age 13, lost a leg to meningitis. After...2011 Delivered From Heaven...
Year end review of 2011 and what to expect in 2012! What a year! It started in late 2010. I received a call from my dad saying that he wanted to live in California. The good news is we had nearly four months with him. I learned a lot of things about my family that I had never known before. After four months, he moved back to the east coast, where he passed in August at age 90. While he was here we celebrated his...NEW YouTube Link, How Are You Dealing with the Noise?...
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDbU5YB3jg For those of you who are Idea People, this article is for you. As usual, it seems like groups of people come to me at one time. Recently there were three who came to me in the span of a week. One sells healthy consumables. Another offers a home service. The third is a software developer that has the potential to take his idea to an Initial Public Offering. ...Planning Expectations for 2012 and Beyond...
Planning Expectations for 2012 and Beyond For many of you I imagine this first step to be nearly impossible. Measuring your actions for this last year is impossible because you would tell me that your actions were created without specific intentions. I only say this with the utmost respect. I have been there. Some years ago someone said, “Gerry, you need to join a networking group to grow your business.” I did...How to Get Presentation Opportunities Using Scripts...
This procedure I call, The Question and Favor Script. The principal behind this concept is that everyone we know wants to help (yes, they do!) The scripts below will allow your ‘knowns’ (those people who know, like, or love you) to make connections for you. To get in front of a general population use the followingscript: Hi this is your name. (If necessary, explain how you know each other. Spend 30 to 60 seconds...