In one of the first posts on this blog, I wrote that this site will be a hub for personal thoughts and and my experience in growing my business. I have once again gotten out my honing stone and have further decided to make this site less about me and more about business building as an entrepreneur.
I redesigned the categories here yesterday and will be posting here on a daily basis. There will be reviews of tools and books, information about events, seminars and people that can make a difference to people in business.
Let me know what topics you would like to see here.
Technorati: Destnation: World Class, blogging, posting, entrepreneurship
June 30th, 2006
To the handful of people who read this blog,
I have cleaned up the categories for Destination: World Class.
I kept looking at the list of categories and they didn’t seem to make sense anymore. I hope they make sense for now and the future.
The new category list is as follows:
- Announcements and News
- Client Fulfillment and Production
- Leadership
- Lessons Learned
- Management
- Marketing
- Miscellanea
- Personal Development
- Productivity
- Reviews
- Sales and Selling
I am open to suggestions on new categories if you observe that anything is missing.
June 29th, 2006
My favourite quote ever is one that I found in one of Jay Conrad Levinson’s books is this:
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” - General G.S. Patton
For the longest time I had this quote pinned to the bulletin board in my office. It is now burned into my brain.
I have a history of procrastination, perfectionism and perpetual planning. I have found a number of ways to deal with these issues but it is the Patton quote that really brought me to attention (pun intended).
In Search of Solutions
In the last year have read a number of interesting articles on time-management and planning. Here are four of my favourites:
You will notice that three of the four articles are by Steve Pavlina. He is by far one of my favourite blog writers, if you can call him that. No one on the web I have found puts more effort into their articles than Steve. Some of his ideas you may find odd but they will always prove thought proving.
What are Your Favourites?
Let me know what your favourite time-management, procrastination and perpetual planning remedies, techniques and insights you have learned.
Tags: Steve Pavlina, Jay Conrad Levinson, time management, procrastination, planning, getting things done
June 29th, 2006
I came up with the idea that I should really convert my whole website company website to sit on WordPress as a content manager and blogging system.
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June 27th, 2006
One of the things I have figured out over the last little while is that I have to focus on a few things at a time. I will most certainly not be able to run two blogs, build up my web development and design business, help take care of my 7 month old and keep on top of the regular day to day things that just need to get done.
It is a long time coming but focus is my new focus. I will reduce the clutter in my life. One of the first things that will happen is that this blog will be placed in hiatus until further notice.
It has been weighing on my mind and I have been reading other bloggers like Guy Kawasaki, Steve Pavlina, Yaro Starak, and others and have found that I need to get other things in order before I dedicate time to blogging on business and my experiences in it.
I look forward to coming back to this with a new lightness and understanding.
For now, all the best.
May 4th, 2006
For those of you who actually read this blog, I have developed a companion Lens at Squidoo to provide a single resource for all the books, sites, references I have read and have used — and more. I will keep posting about things that inspire and lessons I have learned.
April 14th, 2006
In the last couple of days I seem to be reading more and more about the pitfalls of business. Jim Logan at BizInformer has yet another take on mistakes a business can make in his four part series, The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Unwittingly Make to Limit Their Growth and Success. I found this series starting with #3 Offering Prospective Customers Little to Beleive In.
I truly beleive this point cannot be stated strongly enough for businesses who hope to use their website as a vehicle for delivering or increasing profits.
Too many website owners expect too much unwarrented trust or don’t consider the development of trust of any measure. In the real world people make judgments on all sorts of factors and those that go to building trust far outweigh many others, including some that are on the list of Jim offers in his post. Degrees mean little by themselves, testimonials; the same. It is the careful and thoughtful connections between all the items in his list that can make the difference.
April 12th, 2006
A late breaking addendum to my last post from John Jantsch. He writes that Your Marketing Stinks and It’s Your Fault . I find this one particularly interesting as most of the small business owners — who comprise my main market — don’t see this fact ever — until it is too late.
April 11th, 2006
I have been reading some new-to-me blogs of late about business and entrepreneurship. Yaro Starak’s Small Business Branding is one of them. Today he posted on Steve Pavlina’s, 10 Stupid Small Business Mistakes. If you are self-employed and running your own business, you will invariably have made one or more of these mistakes — I certainly have.
Steve’s article dovetails nicely with Guy Kawasaki’s recent article on The Art Of Customer Service. Guy talks about turning the customer experience into a one of perpetual positivity.
April 11th, 2006
I have had this blog up and running for a week now and have had a little traffic but no comments. For the second time, Canadian blogger, Julian Rickards has let me know that I forgot to enable subscriber registrations in the WordPress administration panel.
This is really quite a big duh as I had hoped people would post comments to enter the Name This Blog contest. The contest us still open, by the way, I just plan on awarding the prize to the name I like best — if one comes in. If it is a really cool name I might use it anyway.
Thanks Julian, hopefully the comments will begin to flow now.
March 16th, 2006
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