What if you couldn’t FAIL?

What if you couldn't FAIL?
You get up in the morning with the same excitement you have every day.
You look around the office and with a smug look on you face you say to yourself “I did this”
Now imagine the possibilities without FEAR?
You have great ideas every day, you visualise the potential of where your business COULD go.
And then it hits you like a sledge hammer, what if I F*** it up and it all goes wrong?  What if this?  what if that?  Can I pull it off?  What will people think of me?
Now, the little voice in your head is driving you crazy because the little voice is starting to make sense, and the voice in your head is given you the biggest problem we all face…..DOUBT.
My question to you, and a simple question it is at that. WHAT WOULD YOU DIFFERENT IF YOU KNEW YOU COULDN’T FAIL?

Entrepreneur is a word that is used far too often to describe a business owner. Anyone can start a business and anyone can call them self an Entrepreneur, however the real test is how we deal with the FEAR FACTOR.
Do we
A:  Give ourselves reasons not to?
B:  Not even consider option A
Fear is merely an emotion that can be controlled

How hard can it be to take your own Advice?

When it comes to giving advice, I love it! In fact its more than that, I get no better feeling than hearing those great words “what would you do Col?”

My advice over the years has become renowned for its brutal honesty; I have always believed that if you ask for my opinion on a specific matter, I will  assume that you really wish to know what my opinion is? Surely if you didn’t, you wouldn’t have asked?

Here’s my first piece of advice, if you have a fat arse, please don’t ask me “does my bum look big in this” if you just wanted me to bullshit you into feeling good. 

Now, here’s the problem, I can’t take my own advice, even when I know that the advice would really improve a situation. If I could practice what I preach (on many a level) I would be the person I always wanted to become.

Just writing this down and reading it back to myself is making me feel like a hypocritical two faced knob.

Take this for an example; I’m slightly overweight, I repeat SLIGHTLY!! I know that I would just feel great if I shed a couple of pounds. If you came to me with the same predicament, I would have you focus on the end product, “how great would feel if you lost the weight” I’d ask you. I would recommend that you journal your weight loss so you can see the progress, and so on…….

Me, I see this

So, the best piece of advice I could offer anybody including ME is to take your own advice, use what you have inside you and practice what you preach. Your self-belief with rocket into another dimension.

Try it tomorrow, I will.

Franchise your Business part 1

This is my first “to be continued” blog. I am in the process of growing my empire using a tried and tested route to market…..Franchising.

Now, here's my issue, to date I have been to 3 different “free” franchise showcases, and all of them say the same blurb,

Step One:- We will tell you if you can franchise and in-return you pay us loads of money

Step Two:- We will then tell you what you need to do to get to where you want to go, and in-return you will pay us even more loads of money

Step Three:- We will provide you with lots of already written templates that you can tweak to suite your business, along with some tried and tested but not unique marketing ideas and in-return you will give us loads of money.

Step four: once you have sold a couple of franchises we will take the credit for all the hard work you put in, and should you fail we will take no responsibility what so ever, and you would have just lost loads of money.

I’ll tell you what Mr Fee earning consultant, if you’re as good as you say you are, then you do it for free and I guaranty to double what you would have charged me by paying you commission for each franchise we sell?  What do you mean no? are you not as good as you say you are?

I’m now caught between a rock and a hard place; I know that if I do pay the franchise consultant, I will never fully appreciate what they are doing for me. If I don’t use the “expert” and go at it alone, I will find it dam near on impossible to find an investor.