Look at Your Business with New Eyes

Over the last week I've had a real epiphany of sorts - and it has implications for me personally as well as professionally. Its effect has been so profound that I actually took the week off to let it totally sink in. I never take an unscheduled week off - so it really is a profound experience for me and I want to share it with you.

This epiphany began with a simple quote that I found when I was doing research for my weekday ezine (JumpStart!). Here's the quote from Marcel Proust:

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The meaning behind this powerful quote for business owners, entrepreneurs, and self-employed professionals is extremely important. The following list represents a short list of implications.

• Instead of looking for new and different targets for offering your products and services, consider looking at your products and services through different eyes to get a different perspective of how these products and services can be used - differently than they are currently being marketed.
• Instead of looking for new employees, consider the current (or former) employees and look at them with new eyes in order to strengthen your business with their support and skill sets.
• Instead of throwing out the old ideas for marketing, look at those old ideas with fresh eyes and make simple changes in order to make them work this time.
• Instead of looking for the new and different, simply use fresh eyes to see what is really in your business plan - and make it work better.
• Look at your business plan and review it with different eyes. What do you think of it now? What changes need to be made? What is your mission? What is your vision?
• Refuse to be locked in to your business structures and look at everything about your business with new eyes. New eyes can make all the difference in your bottom line for 2007.

This quote may not be so profound to you right now; however, I cahllenge you as a business owner, entrepreneur, or self-employed professional to use this simple quote as a tool to look at your business (the organization itself) with a freshness and a newness that can create exponential growth for you over the next months.

What does your business look like through new eyes?

5 Solutions for my Clients

There are many solutions that I provide my clients; however, I'll highlight 5 of the "best" solutions that people pay me for.

• Lower stress levels - because I am a sounding board that is 100% confidential.
• Ability to get more done - because I provide time management and goal-setting strategies and techniques.
• Ideas that work to increase cash flow, income, revenue, and profit - because I provide a way to think outside the box.
• More balance between work, family, and personal time - because I teach a prioritizing strategy that is simple and works quickly.
• A simple little formula that helps grow a business and balance a life - because business owners, self-employed professionals, and entrepreneurs are too busy and have very little time.

Contact me to find out more about how I can provide the solution you need in your business and life. I love what I do - and I want to help. Sara

thecoach@SLFConsulting.com

International Coaching Week 2007

International Coaching Week is this week - February 4 - 10. The purpose of this week is to celebrate the power of coaching as well as to educate the general population on the many benefits of coaching - both personally and professionally. This Week with Sara Fitts will take this opportunity to spread the word on the power of coaching.

Today I will highlight 10 reasons that business owners, self-employed professionals, and entrepreneurs seek coaching. I will make myself available at various times this week to talk with you about your specific goals and dreams for your business (or your work and life). Feel free to contact me and I'll schedule an appointment with you.

Here are 10 reasons that business owners, self-employed professionals, and entrepreneurs hire business coaches:

• To have an interested person who has no dog in the fight to listen and candidly respond to business and personal issues - and have 100% confidentiality.
• To have help in setting goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, and realistic with timelines for each step.
• To have help in creating a marketing plan for 1 year or 5 years.
• To have a professional ask the questions that often aren't asked.
• To have added accountability when there are no other employees or board members.
• Help in thinking outside the box.
• Fresh perspectives.
• Help in hiring the right staff - and training them.
• Ideas for doubling or tripling your income/revenue/profit.
• To see the bigger picture, play in the bigger game, and reach the finish line faster - with more money, time, and fun.

To experience what I'm talking about, please schedule a complimentary session to find out if you qualify to be a client of mine. If you qualify, get ready for phenomenal results! I hope I talk with you soon! Sara

Sara L. Fitts

Business Coach 202.374.8158 or 703.791.4741 or email thecoach@SLFConsulting.com