Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

Right now what the world needs is for people to come together and work as a Team. I think it is Mark Victor Hansen, the co-author of Chicken Soup For The Soul Series, who said that T.E.A.M. stands for Together Everyone Achieves Miracles. And Miracles are what we need today with one of the worst economic downturns the world has ever seen, upon us.

Take a deep breath in and out!

Relax into an almost meditative state!

Think about the people around you. Your friends, your co-workers, your neighbours and others you might volunteer with or belong to a club with. What can you do together? Can 4 or 5 of you come together to start a business or join a business or find a way to make some money. Here are 3 things you can do right now to get started:

1- Choose A Team – Make sure each member has a particular strength and most importantly is strong where you or the others are weak. The last thing you want on a team is for everyone to be detail oriented for example. If that is the case everyone will get caught up in the weeds of details. Yet it wouldn’t be very smart to have no detail people on the team. They say that the devil is in the details and it will catch up with you if you don’t pay attention to it.

2- Create A Plan – Most people will tell you to begin with what you like to do and that is true. However you also have to make sure that you are solving someone else’s pain. If there is no pain for someone else there will be no gain for you. If you cannot come up with anything there are two things you could do:
a. You probably need a real creative person added to your team. An idea person is critical for every team. You just need to make sure they are not the leader. Visionaries rarely make good executioners.
b. Go look through Home Business Magazines or books that give you ideas on what businesses you can start. Or search to see what people are doing online but be very careful. Everyone online is trying to sell you something and they appeal to that common thread that runs through most people. They want to be rich – They don’t want to work for it – They don’t want to Pay for it! If you buy into one of those projects you just bought into a scam.

3- Take Action – Over the past couple of years with the popularity of The Secret there are many who figured they just had to think their way into prosperity. The law of attraction is powerful but look at the last 6 letters. Yes that’s right it spells ACTION. Persistent Thought on a Particular Area Plus Persistent and Consistent Action is the True Secret of The Law of Attraction. Every team needs a leader and the number one thing that kills all teams is EGO. A mentor of mine used to say that EGO stood for Edging God Out! I like to say that EGO stands for Edging Good Out! If there are 5 of you and you are trying to dig yourself out of a hole, then stay focused on that. It shouldn’t be important as to who the leader is and who gets center stage. I have often told people with big egos around me “You take the Fame, just give me the fortune”.

Good Teams Make Great Dreams Come True!

Good Times Never Last

It has been more than 2 years since I updated this blog. I guess I felt that it wasn’t needed. People who had great jobs didn’t feel like they were in the Rat Race. And if they were, they figured it wasn’t so bad. The pay was good, they were able to buy a home and jobs were so plentiful that if their boss didn’t treat them right they just had to walk across the street into a higher paying job.

It was an employee’s market for sure!

And it seems to me that when human beings are doing well they think that things will always be so good. They don’t think about digging their well before they need it. They don’t think they will ever be thirsty which is why Americans have the lowest savings of any major country on the planet. China has the highest!

Now people are thirsty and now they are scrambling to dig their wells. But it is very difficult to dig a well under those parched conditions.

So I decided I would come back and help in any way that I can. I have a few secrets that might help you. And for those of you who subscribed to this blog a long time ago I hope you will take some time to review the material here and share it with friends. You will find out why you should share it with friends in the next post. The content is even more valid today than it was in 2006 when things were so good.

I look forward to helping you if you need it!