Plan B: 5 Differences That Make a Difference in Your Small/Home Business: 5 Differences That Make a Difference in Your Small/Home Business

PLAN B:

5 Differences That Make a Difference

in your Small/Home Business

Cesar V. Teague

Copyright © 2011 by Cesar V. Teague.

ISBN:          Ebook                                      978-1-4653-3478-7

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TABLE OF Contents

Introduction

Difference 1: Multiplication Vs. Addition In Activities

Difference 2: Success vs. Struggle Mindset

Difference 3: Focus & Flow

Difference 4: Aligning Opportunities & Goals

Difference 5: Action Steps For Geometric Gains

Conclusion

Appendix / Worksheets

INTRODUCTION

"You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is.

A lot of people don’t know what they want, or they want much less than they deserve. First, you have to figure out what you want.

Second, you have to decide that you deserve it.

Third, you have to believe you can get it.

And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it."

—Barbara de Angelis

Having a Plan B to protect yourself, while providing more overall security in your life, is critical in times of change and uncertainty.

This book’s objective is to explore a shift in thinking and action, moving away from being stuck in a full-time job and a part-time life to having a full-time life and a part-time job—living life on your own terms. Having a Plan B fundamentally means having your own business to generate cash flow, receive tax breaks, and be secure.

In this book, I will share with you what has worked for me. I’ll share the lessons I have learned along my journey of trial and error to provide something you can use to create your own Plan B. Each chapter targets a particular area where positive changes must be made. These changes are the five differences you need to implement to create your strategy for success, to make your Plan B succeed.

The five differences are:

1.   Multiplication vs. Addition. This difference helps you to identify the key risk and reward activities responsible for creating multiple, exponential results—not just incremental gains.

2.   Success vs. Struggle. This difference explores your mind-set and examines what subconscious thought-patterns may have created obstacles for you in achieving your goals.

3.   Focus and Flow. This difference moves you through a succession of concepts, each one building on the previous one to create a stronger foundation.

4.   Aligning Opportunities and Goals. This difference takes the two elements, opportunities and goals, which are often considered to be separate, and integrates them to help you achieve better results.

5.   Action Steps for Geometric Gains. This difference provides hands-on exercises to propel you toward your goals and dreams. It examines your daily method of operation, income-producing activities, continuous improvement, and sales and marketing business plan.

The benefits of a small/home-based business are undeniable for those who have the courage and dedication to choose this course. They include flexible working hours, no commuting hassles, more personal or family time, and the likelihood of financial freedom, all of which allow you to live a life filled with passion.

For those caught up in working-hard routines and not manifesting their truly desired results, the entrepreneurial dream of self-actualization can quickly vanish. In the face of these challenges, it’s easy to retreat into your comfort zone while grabbing hold of excuses such as the economy is bad or maybe next month or next year. But remember that while you could retreat into your comfort zone because it feels more secure and familiar, doing so is ultimately unfulfilling and stressful (and sometimes boring).

Hard work is not the only important ingredient to creating your success. Whether in your career or in your own business, knowing and applying the Plan B strategies will enable you to realize better lifelong results—if you give yourself permission to do so.

I’ve worked with many entrepreneurs and have faced the challenges of self-employment myself. As I watch people struggle, a number of key questions come up over and over:

•   Why do they work such long hours every day, every week, without gaining results?

•   Why do they repeatedly attend workshops without achieving their true goals?

•   Why do they get fired up applying what they have learned only to attain the same unsatisfactory results?

The answers to these mysteries lie in the mind.

Your mind is the most powerful tool at your disposal. Some call it your blueprint.

Subconscious thought-patterns and beliefs can sabotage your best conscious efforts toward success. It’s what happens on the inside that determines what happens on the outside, and grasping this truth is key to unlocking your potential, both personally and professionally.

Success at entrepreneurship, or at any other challenge, requires a dramatic change from within. You’ve most likely heard the popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing in the same way over and over again, but expecting different results.

I’d like to express this notion in a slightly different way:

Whatever got you here will not get you to the next level.

It got you here; it can’t get you there!

So what now? How do you change the beliefs and thought-patterns that have brought you here?

Plan B is a road map to guide you through the personal growth necessary to achieve your goals.

I know of a good road map to follow because I’ve had to create my own Plan B that allowed me to achieve some of my own goals.

My challenging journey began nine years ago when I was at a low point in my life. I ran into legal issues with state regulators on project financing with lenders on projects, including recycling projects; my fiancée, whom I adored, left me, and I had to file for Chapter 7 due to people who abused their authorized use of my credit card – all happening at the same time! If my fiancée had just stayed with me, I think I could have breezed through the other stuff. So I thought at the time. I was about