The Alpha and the Omega: A Place Where We Love To Be.

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My latest blog article happens to be a chapter in my upcoming book: A Place Where We Love To Be; which is now available for $15.99 in paperback on Amazon. (See the link above the Cover Photo.) A few words might have changed during the final edits before going to print, but it’s pretty much complete here as it is. I hope you enjoy it, and it only adds value to what you are doing every day in your business...

Chapter 29: Your Business Profits Come Around: Full Circle.

The Premise:

Even though most modern businesses are still learning how to fully embrace these ideas and put them into practice, everything that happens in our business – as far as becoming a real success in a happy and healthy way, follows the same “relationship” principles that guide every other area of our lives. This is because “we” are always using the same parts of ourselves to achieve our goals, and the positive outcomes we desire. Underneath of our badges, nametags, or given titles, positive energy works on our bodies, minds and souls in the exact same way, no matter where we happen to be. When we finally understand this together, our lives and our businesses will be able to function in ways that are almost unimaginable to us…

This chapter is going to completely change the way you think about running your business. So, if you're challenged by an idea that will allow you to prosper in ways that are outside of your current limits, please move on to the next chapter! However, if you’d like to expand your understanding of how energy works for us – at the heart of all things, just keep reading. I can promise you from my own experience that your life and your business will never be the same – but in a very positive way; that’s not often talked about, even in the most lucrative businesses on the planet at this time.

I would imagine that if you are in business, you are only there for one of two main reasons. One is for the love of what you are doing, or maybe you want to raise as much capital, as possible. Of course, you could be here for other reasons, but most people in business are there for one of these two things, primarily. So, let’s take it from the “in it” to raise money reason, for starters…

If you happen to be in a place where you are making very substantial amounts of money (and if this is your reason), that's – your business. This means without a doubt, you have to make sure everything is running in tip-top shape, so that those movements can provide you with exactly what you’re looking for. While this end is certainly fine (at least for now), what eventually ends up happening from here is that the process of getting to the bottom line, slowly loses its effectiveness over time. If you keep looking to see what’s coming “in,” then what’s happening on the other side of your business tends to get overlooked. As we look more in the direction of where our cash flow is funneling in, the process that’s actually taking us “there” begins to weaken. Long-term, this means the way you are generating “money” will no longer work for you. In time, since the process and the positive energy being generated here are becoming diminished, your financial rewards are also going in the same direction. So, if you are in business for the money primarily, what you’ll need to do to guarantee yourself the maximum return, won’t be found in the traditional things we often think about, such as: more merchandise, savvy marketing techniques, special sales, or even additional investing. Although, these things can be helpful at times…

To make sure the process of A-Z is working like a fine-tuned machine to produce those fantastic gains, your focus should only be on – the process – of getting to the bottom line. Why? Because as the process of your business is running smooth, energy (in the form of money) is also building itself up. So, any snag along the way towards the end “result,” is only delaying and shrinking your return. Most of the time, when we’re overeager to get somewhere, even if it’s to a good place, our final results end up being much less than if we put our calm, solid focus on what’s making the outcome – happen. And, this can’t happen if our bottom goals are constantly under stress. However, if we eliminate that pressure or stress, almost 99% of the time, the bottom line goal never becomes in question, because everything else is in the right place – to produce it.

So, put your positive attention and energy on the here and now, and what you have in front of you – to see what’s needed in the process. See what happens when running your business in the most effective and easiest way possible, does for growing your bottom line. As each transaction runs smoothly (and people are very happy about it), the guaranteed money from just doing this alone is right behind it. When our business is a little less organized or stressful, capital and our energy is being tied up and wasted in that cluster. Then, we have to work much harder for a positive result that could have happened in a much easier way. So, we’re saving a little money to feel good about it – but we’re also giving ourselves a headache and a hassle, during the process of getting there at the same time. (Did you notice a conflict of interest and emotions, there?)

To me, this is one of the major reasons why it becomes harder to enjoy what we’re doing, and to achieve the “big” results we desired to have. Put more focus on where your starting line is and where that energy is going in the process. You'll easily have the results, as well as the happiness that comes from reaching your goals, without any unnecessary stress, time lapses or struggles…When we leave a fuzzy or half-hearted process in place, we’re actually wasting our own money – to try to make more of it! If money is our most important goal, there are plenty of other ways to make our money work for the results we would like to see. It might sound a bit critical on the surface, but we can gain the most by putting it where it's most needed – in the process. That way, both ends of the equation are taken care of, easily. (The process is actually what’s creating and taking us to our bottom line, remember?)

This leads into the next prime reason for having a business – because you love what you’re doing. Of course, this has its set of challenges, too. You could enjoy so much of what you're doing that the “money,” becomes somewhat unimportant. While this mind-set would truly be a fantasy for someone who doesn’t have any money concerns at all, love also requires us to pay a little more attention to what we’re doing with our money. It’s wise to be aware of what’s going in and coming out. Love is wonderful; but it doesn’t mean that you have to waste your profits to keep on experiencing it. If anything, this is the opposite of being too obsessed or worried about the money you have. Love and prosperity – require a healthy balance of both places; since these two places are what’s sustaining you!

In any business, we want to acquire two things: as much love for what we’re doing as possible, and as much money as we can have, from the healthy and enjoyable process that’s taking us there. If we put more attention on the process first, and what’s in place to meet our enjoyable ends successfully, then we can look at our bottom line, and manage our gains. Not compulsively, from a fear or loss based perspective, but from one that understands what’s there, and would like to appreciate that amount. (Yes, I meant that emotionally and financially!) Managing money or even love, has nothing to do with worry, fear or anxiety. These two things only grow because we realize the positive value of what’s there, and how to maintain that value for the people involved…Not just specific “dollar” amounts. That’s only half of the story – in how those numbers were produced to begin with…

So, all of the money in the entire world won’t diminish anxiety, fear, and stress. It’s usually not the lack of money in our business that’s causing these emotions. When we feel this way, especially if we’re successful, it comes from how we’re operating what we have, how we appreciate what’s there, as well as managing our funds. When we only think short-term, a part of us knows that this approach might not work out well long-term, and that causes anxiety. We’re only really comfortable when we know that what we have works; as long as we manage it in a way that’s sustainable.

Rather than working very hard just to have a little more money, which may produce more for a little while, eventually the loss of focus on what we’re doing catches up to us, and our bottom line. We can have ease and a lot more money at the same time, without needless suffering or a delay in the process. Ok, so how do we accomplish that? It all goes back – to square one.

Remember when you first opened your business? Not only were you extremely excited about what you had the chance to do, but you made sure you had more than enough – emotionally, logistically and financially, so that everything ran extremely well for your employees and your customers. This ensured that your money and a great experience could keep flowing, so your business could keep growing. These are the two halves that are creating – what you have…

So, to bring back the enjoyment, enhanced productivity, and smooth operations tomorrow – pretend it’s your opening day, again! Ask your managers what they need to make sure everything is in tip-top shape. And listen – to what they have to say. It might cost a little bit for a short amount of time, since we’ve put most of our focus on the ledger numbers to the right; but when we take care of the process, what's right – only keeps adding up, without a question or worry. It’s as simple as that to have both sides work – for you.

Then, you bring back the positive energy you were looking for the whole time! The process runs almost as smooth as silk, the customers and the employees are very happy about what’s happening, and the bottom line…Well, you know what will happen here, too. What we’re coming down to is a balance on both sides of your business equation; so there isn’t a “lack” of anything that’s needed to grow as much as possible, consistently. Everything has what it needs to stay – up, and to keep on growing, from there.

When we give the two biggest parts of our business – the employees and our customers – exactly what they need to have a great experience without a struggle or hassle, not only do we enjoy what we’re doing (because we’re right in the middle of that success), but at the end of the day, those numbers are going to surpass our expectations. Then we get up the next day, and repeat the same winning formula that’s always worked – ever since we first opened our front doors…

Even though we might have been a little “carried away” by what was coming in, we can come back to center, by understanding that what we put into our business, that’s good for it – is exactly what we’ll see at the end of the day in how we feel; and in what shows up for numbers. Like a fantastic domino effect, we need to be the ones who push the first domino into place with our positive energy, mutual respect, and an enthusiasm for what we’re doing…From here, energy does all of the “traveling” work for you. It spreads the exact same message throughout every person and every part of your business; even with the routine steps that we normally take, every day. Since we are seeing positive results in the way we work together, we only gain even more energy, and money back in the process. We’re literally throwing (nicely) our energy into the field of energy that’s surrounding all of us. And, what comes back, if it’s collectively positive, will literally be good for everything…Including our bottom line.

To gain more, we never really had to put a negative on the side of the process, so that we could have more on the other end. Neither side ever has to go without what it needs to work. That line is always connected and looping back and forth together, anyway. Just like we are, with the energy we use in our interactions throughout the day to make success – happen. If we desire to keep positive energy going, so that we can enjoy what we’re doing, logistics that work need to be in place. Our enjoyment and our productivity are directly intertwined, as well. Positive emotions, plus logistics that work for us, equals – how big our bottom line will be. And then, the cycle just repeats. By taking something out that’s needed to create more, the solid structure we've built no longer works for growth, or the larger goals we have in mind. (This is where our excitement and our fear are being activated.) So, when something is working emotionally, logistically and financially, then – leave it right where it is. It’s working!

Emotionally, if you know how to have one positive interaction with your employees and your customers, and the services are there to match that energy; your numbers will also be growing at the same time. Why? It’s all the same – positive step! It’s just traveling through your logistics process to create a specific enjoyable end. One positive step in your business means that you can keep “up” the good work and your profits, for as long as you want. With a great system in place, besides the occasional small mistakes, where could it go wrong? So, the enjoyment of working and our financial rewards never have to stop or diminish very much, at all. Getting back to this is really no big deal; but the rewards will be far beyond what we expected them to be, everywhere.

In life, business, and in our relationships, we never have to trade one good part of something to have another part of it that we wanted. As a business and positive relationship consultant, I couldn’t be more thrilled that we really can have it all, in a profitable and enjoyable way. As long as we are willing to put some of our focus back on the process, the bottom line and our daily operations – will take care of themselves. It’s just a matter of repeating those same successful steps. Once we have the template, the hard work is already done because we know that those steps are adding up to what we wanted to see, financially. And, that’s what makes it easy – to keep our business moving.

Whatever we put into the circle of our business – is exactly what comes out of it.

Whatever energy and resources we put there – was always for everyone involved, and us at the same time. There was never a need to see these two parts of your business – as separate. I hope knowing this makes it so much easier to invest what you need, so that everything turns around, just like it did in the beginning. And, that’s only one positive step away from you. It’s a very small and simple step, but the rewards in every way are endless. You just have to say “yes” to get back to it. There was never a need to cut corners out of what’s needed to make success continue to happen, or grow. No matter who we are, we're always making adjustments, so that our rewards can be greater. With all of these benefits to make everything practically run itself and raise the bottom line at the same time, how could anyone say no to it – when that’s exactly what we wanted all along, from day one?

A fabulous day – starts in the moment that we begin working together in this way. There are no limits to what we can achieve emotionally, logistically and financially; as long as we put into place – what’s working to accomplish that end, easily. This is the only real step that we ever needed to make to become – healthy, wealthy and wise.

The Experiment:

For the next two weeks to a month, have your managers and employees put some of their attention on the “process” of completing a bunch of sales transactions – from start to finish. Look for simple ways to make the process run that much smoother. So, emotionally, logistically and financially, everything is working out well. For now, the idea isn’t to cut corners or to spend money. The goal is only to see how much potential time, energy, and money is being “used” in the current process. Not for judgment, ever. Just to see how well it’s really working out for you. When we're spending quite a bit of time, energy and money to make the process work so-so, sometimes a little bit more in the right place, will produce far beyond what we imagined…

One of the biggest mistakes we can sometimes make in the “rush” of getting to our bottom line is from not having enough solid, positive and clear communication between departments, management, and the employees. Every “eye” is needed to see exactly what's happening – the good, and what needs a little improvement. Just like a football game with slow motion cams from a few different angles, everyone can see a necessary piece that will make the transactions run that much smoother – from beginning to end, without stress. The more stress that’s involved, the more worry you will generate – because something that’s needed is missing to take you straight to your goal.

At the end of the month, without a hassle or fuss about what you find, there will be a common theme present. Again, this is not for a negative judgment of what’s there. The only purpose is to see where the process can be made easier for everyone involved. Believe it or not, you’ve already done this many times, since the beginning of getting your business up and running. Although it’s familiar territory – it will work wonders for you!

In the process of just doing this alone, relationships will improve, communication will improve, and everyone will feel like they are working towards the same happy end – because they are. Every suggestion will come down to a few key things that are needed to guarantee the entire process, will be much more effective. (And, since I’m a consultant, here’s a little money and time saving tip: Instead of hiring an expensive firm; try putting a few more people in your key areas, first. That way, you won’t have to try to re-invent the wheel. A few more people pushing it, will do the same if not more, than revamping your whole system. If this doesn’t work, then you can bring in – the muscles!)

Since the transaction between employees and customers – is where the bulk of your energy is going, and where the most amount of money is being generated, this will have a dramatic effect on all of the other parts of your business, naturally. Just like the body, when a major part of it is doing well, all of the other parts of it will run better, too. So, for now, put your focus here and you’ll be very surprised at just how simple and easy, making a greater profit can be.

When you’ve fine-tuned the process, leave it in place to work its magic. It has what it needs now to keep on working for you! In fact, if I’m right about this, the same things that are needed here are the same solutions you’ll need for the other parts of your operation, too. The same key principles apply to how we feel emotionally about the process, and to what shows up, financially. That’s why gains are also known as principle, or interest. One good move for you and your business, means it will affect everyone in a positive way. And, because of that, your results will always come back to you, and multiply themselves – emotionally, logistically and financially. Positive energy and capital just need to travel through many other people first, before they come back to you at a greater level. That’s business, and it’s just how the multiplication process of energy and money, works. They both pick up steam, momentum and growth, as they are "moving" through your business.

In essence, life and business are just a two-step process. From here – to there, and back! If you’d like to hear more about how this philosophy works out financially, my next example will show you exactly how all of this positive energy, converts itself into more money…

A Final Thought:

When I was hired by a very large company as an assistant store manager, I wanted to improve the positive morale and the attitude of the employees, as well as making the process of working together that much more enjoyable. As I was wondering “how” I was going to accomplish this, it occurred to me that I could put into place a very simple idea; one that would make the employees a little happier about their day...

It turns out (with a little help from a calculator and a district manager), with company-wide average participation, this idea alone – would have yielded an extra 5-12 million dollars of yearly revenue...Without any money needed – to put it into place, and to keep it up and running. That was in 2011. Since then, the idea grew substantially, and the same formula has reached 250 million dollars+ of additional annual income…Just from making a single part of the business that much more enjoyable to be a part of. As of right now, my total sales proposal numbers have reached close to 10 billion; and that's only for about 12 major businesses. If my formula works for 35-40% of all of the businesses in the world...How high do you think those numbers would be? As of right now, if you added-up all of the collective numbers if every business utilized this formula the totals come very close to 5T+. And, from one profitable idea, comes many more to follow it…

That’s how I started my business consulting practice, combined with my knowledge of how people and places connect. If you’re new to it, it’s called "One Full Circle Consulting," because one good idea in the right place, produces rewards – everywhere. Is it just a coincidence that more money could be hidden and raised, from making a single part of the business work in a more positive way? Could the winning formula be that simple? If we improve on an emotional or logistical situation in our business, do the numbers also grow naturally, within that circle of energy? It worked in my case more than once, and the numbers keep on growing. However, I’ll let you be the judge to determine if that’s how we really can – have it all. With love and money put together in the circle of our business, what would be missing from our bottom line? Since – that’s exactly what’s creating it!

The formula to have the most productive enjoyment from everything you're doing is very simple: "That which gives of itself without holding back (especially with our positive intentions) will produce the widest net, as far as profits are concerned." And, not just with money, but with everything that's connected to that given situation. The only catch here is that the gesture needs to be sincere. It should desire to see others involved in that scenario as happy as they could be, as well as ourselves. If you can wrap yourself around that idea, feel it and share it...You'll extend the most, but have the most for yourself at the same time; because there was never a conflict of "interest" in those two places to begin with. This is the ultimate, straight to the point truth about love and money. They're simply extensions of the same energy: One part is the cause, and the other is the effect. And, that's it. You can't break either one down, as far as their relationship goes, any simpler than that. And, when you understand how those ends are connecting with each other...You've got it all.

Author’s Note:

If you’re interested in transforming your business into all that it could be long-term with the same values shared here, I would look into anything by Matthew Gilbert. My relationship principles of how we work together successfully (even to produce more profits) came out of biology class, and my experience working for 65 companies in both entry level and management positions.

(This is a little sidebar not included in the chapter...If you understand anything about The Butterfly Effect, energy touches and has an influence on what's local, and far away from it. The same results that are happening directly where you are, are also being broadcast through every part of your business circle, as well. So, that's eventually how the profits (and the opposites) show up. It's only a matter of time before all of those conditions come together to create exactly what you've got. Negatives will always have diminishing returns. However, what's positive and what works, will always continue to add to what's there. And, so far, even modern science hasn't come close to scratching the surface of our positive outer limits.)

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