Do ‘Business Texts’ Irritate You?

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Ok…I REALLY should be writing today about Business Owner tax free income strategies (given its the day after business tax filing deadline…) but I’ve got another ‘stone in my shoe’ to share first.  Let me ask you a question…

DO BUSINESS TEXTS IRRITATE YOU?

They irritate me and let me tell you why…..
For YEARS I never understood the whole point of texts..just pick up the phone and call me already!!!

Then EVERYBODY started texting as the standard way to communicate with me…so much so that it seems NOBODY answers the phone now!!!

The thing that irritates me about texts (and why the promoters of texting are pushing it so) is because texts are IMMEDIATE.

By that I mean, we all immediately read a text and presumably immediately act on it….unlike email now that can sit for hours and sometimes days without opening and response.

But here’s why texting in the business area irritates me ( if you’re a regular reader of my feed, you’ll notice how a BUNCH of stuff irritates me…I digress!!)

JUST BECAUSE YOU TEXT ME DOESN’T AUTOMATICALLY MEAN I’M REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO YOU!!

Isn’t the pace of our business world fast enough?
In MY world of working with Founders and CEOs and their business succession, tax planning, income planning and estate planning issues… I MUST have a clear, thorough audit trail of communication…and text snippets just don’t cut it.

But more to my own personal point I don’t care for a perfect stranger or even a business client expecting me to stop EVERYTHING I’m doing at whatever time of the day or night and respond to him or her…not going to happen!!

So here’s my ‘take home’ message for you business types…

text your wife, significant other, child or buddy to let them know you’re home safe, on your way, thinking of them,…..

But for your business associations….

PICK UP THE PHONE!!

Remember…
“Things don’t get better with neglect…..”

Kevin Pritchett, Esq
Founder The Founders/CEO Business Owners Collective (FBOC)

P.S.  I’m starting a series on TAX FREE Income Planning for the members of my Founders/CEOs group.  To receive the series CLICK HERE.

 

These 3 Things NEVER Lie!

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The 3 Things  That NEVER Lie…

  1.  The Scale
  2. Your Mirror
  3. Your Bank Account

The Scale
You eat Doritos, donuts and Frappachinos all day every day but just can’t figure out why you can’t lose weight….RIIIIGHT!!

Guys, suck in their guts and ladies well, I don’t even want to start to describe what YOU do…smaller sizes, tight jeans…you know what you do!!!

But the great truth teller is the scale.  You either carry more weight than you should or you don’t…and the scale tells the truth!!

The Mirror
You all know the famous question..
“Do these pants make my butt look big?”
A bachelor will say…YEP
A married guy will lie…and say ‘oh no dear.”

Guys will stand sideways, and try to hide the protruding gut…
But here again, the great truth teller is the mirror..look and see what REALLY is.

Your Bank Account
Now before you all go ‘PC’ and rant on about how money is NOT the measure of all things and such…I’m NOT repeat NOT saying money is the measure of all things.

But  for BUSINESS OWNERS, the bank account ABSOLUTELY IS a measuring stick to how you’re doing in your business.

You can have all the fancy- pants branding, and social media presence and web site opt in and Search Engine Optimization prowess you want…..but at the end of the day if you don’t have more money in your business and personal bank account than you did the week, month and year before…SOMETHING’S WRONG AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

Why I’m Ranting About This Right Now

And why am I ranting on about this right now??
I just completed my 2017 tax returns for all my businesses (they’re due March 15 sports fans!!!) and the monthly and yearly income and expense compilations are EXTREMELY REVEALING.

I see EXACTLY where I failed and where I need work.  It should NOT have come as a surprise but it did…because I was in denial about certain projects and businesses  However. the the numbers on my balance sheet and the money NOT in my bank account for those businesses doesn’t lie.

Tell yourself the truth…always.  It is WAY easier in the long run!!

“Remember…things don’t get better with neglect.”

Kevin Pritchett
Founder-Founders/CEO Business Owner Collective FBOC
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Character Matters…In Business And In Life..A Lot!!

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Ok right at the outset some of you won’t like what I’m about to say.  But quite frankly I don’t really care…because its too important not to say….

    Character matters in business and in life…
it matters a lot!!

Day after day we’re bombarded with stories of …

–unscrupulous business practices
–unscrupulous political practices
-unscrupulous personal practices

“It Feels Like Life Itself Is Unraveling”

A colleague said something to me a while ago that has haunted me for months.   She was describing the general malaise she was feeling in her business and life and she described it as if

“life was unraveling…that nobody and nothing had any meaning anymore.”

Think on it…if none and nothing can be relied upon to be telling the truth, or to deliver value or to care about anyone other than gratifying themselves in the moment…..I guess life REALLY IS unraveling.

The  ‘Moral Bankruptcy’ of President of The United States

It’s ‘over the top’ bad when the President of the United States is being investigated or all manner of alleged misconduct including not one but SEVERAL encounters with prostitutes.

And what’s most mind boggling about the Presidential escapades is that the base of followers who support him ARE NOT PHASED ONE BIT!!!

The explanation is that ‘as long as the President supports the policies WE WANT, he can do whatever.”

Here’s The Part That Will Piss You Off…..

We can’t afford as a nation, a society to be so self serving and self concerned that we turn a blind eye to moral defective character….IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTABLE.

So…the ‘take home’ message for business owners….

CHARACTER DOES MATTER….
for Every client
for Every customer
for Every vendor
for Every employee

For if what we do as business owners does not support the general improvement of our customers/clients/employees and ultimately society….we are doing fundamental injustice to the society and ultimately ourselves…and furthering the unraveling of the social and moral fabric of our society.

Now…I said it!!!

Tell me what YOU think!!

“Remember….things don’t get better with neglect.”

Kevin Pritchett
Law Office of Kevin Pritchett
Founder-The Founder/CEO Business Collective

P.S. I’m DEAD SERIOUS about wanting your feedback on this post…don’t be apathetic…SPEAK UP!! Post your comments below.

 

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Work Today…

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Funny thing happened on the way to work this morning…
I was searching the major news feeds in order to come up with a business topic to write about…you know …valuable business content that would help my business clients, colleagues and Founders/CEO Business Collective Members????

After about 20 pages and countless posts all that came up was crap about Donald Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, what White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders did or didn’t say about it….

Ok..there were some stories about a proposed gun bill ban in Florida..but even then the coverage of it was less about the content of the proposed bill than it was about politics, gossip and nonesense.

Here’s the point of my rant…..

As business owners/Founders/CEOs you MUST and I mean MUST ignore the nonsense, focus on what’s important to your business and leave the rest behind…WAY BEHIND!!

Case in point….

While all this  Stormy Daniels crap is floating in the media( don’t get me wrong its BEYOND awful that this discussion even has to occur about the President of the United States…) …

–brand new tariffs are being put in place on steel and aluminum
–new tax laws will have a SIGNIFICANT impact on business tax
rates..if you know how to apply the new laws and regulations
–enormous opportunities are now opening up that will literally
obliterate certain industries and create brand ones

You gotta keep your eye on the ball….
and don’t become distracted!!

“Remember….things don’t get better with neglect..they get worse!”

Kevin Pritchett, Esq
Founder-The Founder/CEO Business Owners Collective (FBOC)
Managing Director-JPI Ventures LLC; Private Equity

P.S. Click Here To Connect With Me On Linkedin 

Where The Solutions To ‘Unsolvable Problems’ Reside

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I’m going to suggest a radical premise for you to consider. Namely…

THERE ARE NO UNSOLVABLE  PROBLEMS
(Business or Otherwise….)

Radical concept??…not really.
What does this have to do with business??  Hang with me for a moment…you’ll see I promise!!

All knowledge, human and otherwise, resides in what I call
‘The 4 Realms of Truth’

The First Realm 
This realm are the things we KNOW we know because we have evidence to back up what we know…. e.g. earth rotates around the Sun (the history of THIS knowledge is a study all in itself…)

The Second Realm 
This realm are things we THINK we know but just need a bit more evidence to back up what we think we know is true. e.g. there may be water on Mars..need to get some probes there to find out for sure

The Third Realm
This realm contains things we’re not AT ALL SURE about..so much so that we can’t even wrap our minds around what the issues really are e.g. is light a wave or a particle??

The Fourth Realm
This is the ‘money realm’ for unsolvable problems.  This is the realm where WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW…and this is where ALL and I mean ALL unsolvable problems dwell!!
Why….
Because an ‘unsolvable problem’ is really just a problem that is not yet solved because we’re looking in the wrong place for the wrong answers!!!

You’re Looking In All The Wrong Places
We’re looking left and the answer is in another dimension!!  In short, unsolvable problems remain unsolved because:

 we don’t truly understand the real nature of the problem OR THE SOLUTION and as a result we’re searching in the wrong places for a solution that will NEVER solve the problem

A perfect example of  this mismatch is the study for the nature of  matter.  For over 50 years physicists have believed the nature of matter was particulate and that there was a fundamental particle that would unlock the secrets of the existence of all matter.

With the discovery of every new particle they discovered more…it was as if the search for particles created more particles (ah…Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle come to blistering reality).

Scientists now are  coming to understand that PARTICLES ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING THE CORNERSTONE OF MATTER.  They’re looking now at dimensionality (String Theory), Dark Matter and Dark Energy…uh…say what???

Every Unsolvable Problem Was Actually
Solved In The Fourth Realm

If you track the history of every discovery you will find that the turning point for ‘solving the unsolvable’ was turning awareness to the Fourth Realm and realizing the problem was unsolvable because the questions being asked were ALL WRONG.

“Ok Einstein…
What Does This Have To Do With My Business?”

EVERYTHING!!
Every so called ‘intractable business problem’ you think you have can be solved by turning to the Fourth Realm for possible solutions.

For example:
Problem 1-“Poor Sales/Cashflow
Belief:..I can’t get my sales staff to produce.”
Fourth Realm Solution:-It’s not the sales staff….Nobody wants the product you’re offering…that’s why sales are off.

Problem 2:  Burnout
Belief: “I hate my clients/customer and I want to quit.”
Fourth Realm Solution: It’s not the clients/customers…its YOU.  You’ve been doing this for 35 years without a break in routine.  There ARE aspects you love…focus more on those and give the parts you DON’T like to others on your team…

The ‘Take-Home’ message..
To solve the ‘unsolveable problem’

–ask different questions…
–seek radically different solutions

In short….go to The Fourth Realm’

Remember…
“Things don’t get better with neglect…they get worse.”

Kevin Pritchett, Esq
Law Office of Kevin Pritchett, Inc.
ironkop@gmail.com

P.S. CLICK HERE to connect with me on Linkedin for more ‘out of the box business thinking especially for business Founders/CEOs

PPS Would love your comments on this post!!! Just leave comments below in comment area!!

 

Where The Solutions To ‘Unsolvable’ Problems Reside..

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I’m going to suggest a radical premise for you to consider. Namely…

THERE ARE NO UNSOLVABLE  PROBLEMS
(Business or Otherwise….)

Radical concept??…not really.
What does this have to do with business??  Hang with me for a moment…you’ll see I promise!!

All knowledge, human and otherwise, resides in what I call
‘The 4 Realms of Truth’

The First Realm 
This realm are the things we KNOW we know because we have evidence to back up what we know…. e.g. earth rotates around the Sun (the history of THIS knowledge is a study all in itself…)

The Second Realm 
This realm are things we THINK we know but just need a bit more evidence to back up what we think we know is true. e.g. there may be water on Mars..need to get some probes there to find out for sure

The Third Realm
This realm contains things we’re not AT ALL SURE about..so much so that we can’t even wrap our minds around what the issues really are e.g. is light a wave or a particle??

The Fourth Realm
This is the ‘money realm’ for unsolvable problems.  This is the realm where WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW…and this is where ALL and I mean ALL unsolvable problems dwell!!
Why….
Because an ‘unsolvable problem’ is really just a problem that is not yet solved because we’re looking in the wrong place for the wrong answers!!!

You’re Looking In All The Wrong Places
We’re looking left and the answer is in another dimension!!  In short, unsolvable problems remain unsolved because:

 we don’t truly understand the real nature of the problem OR THE SOLUTION and as a result we’re searching in the wrong places for a solution that will NEVER solve the problem

A perfect example of  this mismatch is the study for the nature of  matter.  For over 50 years physicists have believed the nature of matter was particulate and that there was a fundamental particle that would unlock the secrets of the existence of all matter.

With the discovery of every new particle they discovered more…it was as if the search for particles created more particles (ah…Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle come to blistering reality).

Scientists now are  coming to understand that PARTICLES ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING THE CORNERSTONE OF MATTER.  They’re looking now at dimensionality (String Theory), Dark Matter and Dark Energy…uh…say what???

Every Unsolvable Problem Was Actually
Solved In The Fourth Realm

If you track the history of every discovery you will find that the turning point for ‘solving the unsolvable’ was turning awareness to the Fourth Realm and realizing the problem was unsolvable because the questions being asked were ALL WRONG.

“Ok Einstein…
What Does This Have To Do With My Business?”

EVERYTHING!!
Every so called ‘intractable business problem’ you think you have can be solved by turning to the Fourth Realm for possible solutions.

For example:
Problem 1-“Poor Sales/Cashflow
Belief:..I can’t get my sales staff to produce.”
Fourth Realm Solution:-It’s not the sales staff….Nobody wants the product you’re offering…that’s why sales are off.

Problem 2:  Burnout
Belief: “I hate my clients/customer and I want to quit.”
Fourth Realm Solution: It’s not the clients/customers…its YOU.  You’ve been doing this for 35 years without a break in routine.  There ARE aspects you love…focus more on those and give the parts you DON’T like to others on your team…

The ‘Take-Home’ message..
To solve the ‘unsolveable problem’

–ask different questions…
–seek radically different solutions

In short….go to The Fourth Realm’

Remember…
“Things don’t get better with neglect…they get worse.”

Kevin Pritchett, Esq
Law Office of Kevin Pritchett, Inc.
ironkop@gmail.com

P.S. CLICK HERE to connect with me on Linkedin for more ‘out of the box business thinking especially for business Founders/CEOs

PPS Would love your comments on this post!!! Just leave comments below in comment area!!