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  • ABOUT LINDA FEINHOLZ “Your High Payoff Catalyst”

What WILL Make The Difference In Your Business Results?

© 2008 Linda Feinholz

All too often our progress in business plateaus. You know, it levels off at the point you achieved when you last gave it attention. Very often we settle into ‘habit’ mode and forget to look at the long view for our business.

Over the years I’ve consulted to many business owners and leaders who want new results. By their own admission, they’ve assumed that staffing up or cutting expenses was the route to achieving their business’s next level. In their hearts they believed that if they managed the money, the rest would follow.

They’ve very often been wrong!

It’s already standard business practice to manage the money. What differentiates successful companies from those just noodling along are some things not discussed in business courses and business books.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: One of the most important ways to boost your business is to focus ON your obstacles.

Watch Your Competition

It’s very inspiring to be told to ignore your competition. We were well trained in school. all dream of doing better on a test than our classmates, and that carries over to how we behave in business. “I won’t look at yours paper if you don’t look at mine!”

The fact is, the more you know about your competition the quick you can sort through potential options for your own business, and Read more

Staying Fresh In Your Business

How do you get together with your referral sources? How do you keep them up to date on who you are in business these days?

I had a chance to catch up with 250 friends last week. I know that makes your eyebrows rise. “250?” you’re thinking.

Well, yes. Every summer the ProVisors organization throws a summer get together for it’s members. ProVisors is a Los Angeles based member association of over 1,000 professional – key advisors to businesses. I’ve been in the organization for nearly 14 years and it’s been a rich source of referrals to ideal clients as well as a great way for me to locate people who solve business challenges like insurance, financing, and legal issues for my clients.

We’re all very busy serving our clients, building our own businesses. Even with regular smaller networking gatherings it’s a real challenge to stay up to date with each other.

So one of the great things about our annual gathering is that it provides a chance for people to find out what’s changed in people’s personal and professional lives. And of course it’s wonderful to have someone else organizing it all so we can just show up!

So, in addition to this newsletter and monthly get togethers, the annual catch up is golden!

How are you staying in touch with your colleagues? I’d like to know.

Is 3rd time the charm?

Where are these messages going?

Technology, love it or …

I know I’ll love it when I get this working!

Tipto-ng Through Technology

Trying my darndest to prove I can set up technology links on my own - Facebook, to blog, to Facebook, etc. yikes!

PLEASE Design your Freedom with me!

OK… It’s confession time!

I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom, independence, and liberty lately. I recorded all the John Adams mini-series episodes and watched them in one swoop two weeks ago.

It was really great to learn about the challenges those early founders of the United States grappled with as they did the persistent work of getting this country organized, and launched as it’s own nation.

One of the most interesting parts of the information, at least for me, was the reminder that while those people held a common purpose, they didn’t all share the same values, goals and priorities. And so they had a lot of frustrations as their attention was pulled in many competing directions.

Just like you and me in our businesses.

I mentioned last time that the folks who tell me what they want are the ones who influence what I do in this weekly newsletter. As I continuously work to keep The Spark fresh and relevant for you, I look at the feedback you each send me.

So I’ve made it completely easy for you to let me know:

1 - What are the specific challenges you are now facing in your business?

2 - What are the specific results you wish you could create?

PLEASE, take 19 seconds, right now, to send me an email at Linda@Feinholz.com and tell me so that I can get you the High Payoff results you want.

I look forward to shaping articles, tips and programs to get you further, faster and easier! This time next year let’s be celebrating your own Independence Day

Here’s to Your Success!

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What Change Are You Ready For In Business?

We each say we want to know more, be more skillful, insightful, successful. And yet, how often do we deliberately learn, reflect, and use our learning to become more talented, productive, effective?

When you think about the way you are ‘primed’ how does it affect you and your business?

OK, why another video? Because they’re fabulous!

I’ve just kicked off my own work with new clients and a new coach and my brain is a buzzing with idea - each of them a tool for you.

And I no sooner decided on my theme for the article than I had the joy and laughter of this presentation about simplicity. As you know, I’m passionate about leverage and here was my own opportunity to use the fun and insightfulness of Al Seckel AND to share it with you.

Don’t you just love having your perception teased?

The reason I’m so passionate about great conversation is that it’s a verbal approach to shifting perspectives in the same way Al’ Seckel’s presentation visually shifts you!

Take a look at this presentation …

Al Seckel: Your brain is badly wired — enjoy it!

For myself, this past year I took a fresh look at how ‘general’ I’ve been in speaking about my business and the results I create for my clients. I’ve given myself the challenge of shifting my own self-perceptions, and my thinking and language. I’m playing (truly, playing) with my ideas about identity, communication, branding, programs, services.

Do Your Clients Find You Easy To Use?

Are YOU ‘easy to use’?

We all face the simultaneous joys and aggravations of of technology in our lives, but did you ever think about technology as a metaphor for YOU?

Take a look at this presentation …

David Pogue: When it comes to tech, simplicity sells:

… It’s confession time!

I’ve been on the road so many days this past month, with so many different topics in mind for articles that I didn’t love any of them when it was time to send this week’s newsletter to you.

AND I got such wonderful feedback from many of you about last week’s video of Jill Bolton Taylor that I thought I’d share one that both made me laugh and reconsider my approach to parts of my business.

I could take apart this presentation about simplicity and tie it function by function and activity by activity to your business, but I’ll let you enjoy the TED Conference, and ask YOU to tell ME of one specific change you can see to make in your business.

For myself, this past year I simplified. I reduced my consulting and coaching options, increased my rates 50%, and sold 80% more work. Everyone of my clients has told me they love the simplicity of our work together and the results they are creating in their work and lives.

That’s absolutely fabulous for ‘both’ of us - and a High Payoff Idea Worth Spreading. After all it’s all about making it easy for our client and colleagues to love working with us, right?

So take a look at that video, and answer for yourself and your business: Have you made it simple or complicated for your clients, colleagues, vendors and employees to work with you… and how can you make it simpler, starting today? I bet that if you take on the role of ‘tap counter’ for business, you’ll find ways to simplify your business and ‘feel the love’ in no time!

Launching!

When I decided to launch Your Success Catalyst, I thought I was going to be making a simple shift. Adding a newsletter - The Spark!. Starting a weekly call for people to get quick solutions to what has them stuck. Simple and straight forward.

Little did I know that I was viewing my possibilities through a very narrow lens. It was only as I became intrigued and spent months immersed - learning and researching and making novel connections with experts in new arenas - that the universe of new ideas and opportunities revealed itself to me.

The technique I describe in this week’s article was instrumental in broadening the possibilities from adding a newsletter to developing the 2007 Success TeleConference that begins April 16th.

So join me in following that insight from Socrates and think about how you could used another technique that supports Productivity Principle 2 – Get More Effective Results by Sharpening Your Mind.