Main Idea
Who wonders if they have enough resources to survive the current economy? Where do you get new leads for business? How do you fix some of the problems in your businesses? Do you look outside your business for the solutions?
Expansion of Idea
Do you remember the TV show “MacGyver”? If you have never seen it, MacGyver gets stuck in life and death situations in every episode. There is no possible way of getting out of the problem. You or I would die. But MacGyver takes a look at the situation and sees what he does have. He then saves the day with what he does have. He does not worry about his lack of resources.
I was reminded of this recently and I thought it would apply to us. All of us have different issues in our workplaces. Our old models may not work today. Or we may not have enough resources to try to get new customers. Or we may not know how to find the new customers. But we do have:
Our existing customers and employees.
Our experience.
Friends and family members to bounce ideas off.
Knowledge of the business.
Potential customers that are more open to new ways
American ingenuity. (Throw in apple pie, mom and Chevrolet.
We have been incredibly blessed and we need to focus on the blessings and not on the shortfalls.
“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.” By Rudyard Kipling
Start by Asking Yourself these Questions:
What do you have that is working?
What did you do when you were getting started in business that you are no longer doing?
What is the number one thing you should be working on that you are not working on?