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Turn Woes into Wins!

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Most entrepreneurs are living, breathing, creative idea machines, multi-gifted, risk-takers, which can be a blessing or curse, or for better or even worse. It is sad to say, I hear all the time: “I have too many ideas”; “I really don’t know what I should do first!”;  “I have so many gifts and talents, I don’t know what to do.”; “I am not the best decision-maker”; and “I have failed in the past.” (just to name a few) . Almost every entrepreneur I have ever met has expressed these woes. Yes, it is super awesome to be so brilliant and gifted, but unfortunately this amazing gift ends up at a standstill and eventually hitting a big wall called, “Analysis Paralysis”. Oh yes, analysis paralysis is where you overthink an action to the extent where you actually never take action and you are stuck. You are stuck in the ‘What if…” zone: “What if my new idea doesn’t take off?”; “What if people don’t believe in me as I step into the new industry?”; and “What if I fail again?”. As Aj Joshi said,”Business is a game of chess, think carefully before every move and make every move count.” ~Aj Joshi The key word is…”move”! 

GREAT NEWS…there is HOPE! You can get out of the “What if…” zone, rise up from the analysis paralysis and turn those Woes into Wins!

Woe #1…A MILLION AND ONE IDEAS: WIN STRATEGY – Write them ALL down! Highlight all of the ideas that are in direct correlation with the vision and mission of your company. After doing your homework to perform a feasibility study on your ideas, prioritize the ones that will make the most impact in the market, while generating the most revenue. The other ideas can be optimized in a business venture, partnering, or collaborating with another company. Just make a Decision!

Woe #2…Multi-gifted and talented: WIN STRATEGY – Live your Life Out Loud…play all the cards you were dealt, leave nothing on the table! Most of the time you can utilize all of your gifts within your primary business. However, if you have a gift that falls outside of your primary industry, well it’s time to launch and explore the other industry. For example, I am a business strategist and a poet (I know go figure…lol!). Just get out there and do it…I did! It’s fun to explore and launch the other sides of who you are. Someone is waiting on that gift or talent that you have kept locked away. Just make a Decision!

Woe #3…Past unwise decisions and failures: WIN STRATEGY – You cannot live in your past. Do not let your past block your future. You must learn from unwise decisions and failures. In every unwise decision and failure is a lesson and blessing; take both and move on! Use the wisdom you learned to launch you into the next BIG MOVE of your life! New products, services, niche market, and partnerships are all waiting for you on the other side of your LEAP over the past. Just make a Decision!

It is time to be like NIKE and “Just do it”! Entrepreneurs stop over-analyzing your next step and just take the next step! You have thought about it long enough, you have done enough research, you have asked for enough advice, and you have been in the “what if…zone” for way too long! Turn yours WOES into WINS!! Just make a Decision! Make a move and make every move count!

Contact us today, to schedule your Complimentary 30 minute Discovery Session! Transcending Horizons Enterprises develops and delivers customized winning strategies to help you optimize potential and Soar Beyond the Limits in business and life!

Soaring Beyond Limits,

Dr. Tylisha Johnson

Chief Strategist

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Jumpstart Your Business: Become an Industry Leader & Increase Your Bottom-line

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Jump-start Your Business: Become an Industry Leader & Increase Your Bottom-line

by Dr. Tylisha Johnson

Does your business need a jump-start?

Are you finding that your business is stagnating year after year with no significant increase in your bottom-line?

Question: When is the last time your business produced a new service or product?

Witty ideas, innovations and inventions are THE KEYS to the Jump-start your business needs!

You can begin by creating an innovative environment that promotes creative thinking. Innovation is imperative to growth and profitability.  Of course, your business exists, because you have the answer to a problem. You may also be very successful, because you have been innovative in the past. However, if you are not continuing to be innovative, your company will have the same problem Blockbuster did (nobody wants that). I think that is enough incentive to get READY TO JUMP-START your business with innovation.

Ponder these questions:

Do you know if there is a niche’ target market with a unique problem (that has not been tapped)?

Do you know what other problems your customers or potential customers are having?

Do you know if there are gaps in product lines or services within your industry?

You can do your research to try and get answers to these questions, but it is not enough to do your research and development internally. You must create an ecosystem of contributors to innovation that taps into the ideas of your customers, suppliers, business partners, employees, and business network contacts. Here are a few tips for creating this innovative environment:

  • Develop a system to collect new ideas from your contributors (set up a link on a portal or your website and/or have a drop box in the office).
  • Monthly meetings should include brainstorming and small group mastermind sessions. Offer an incentive and reward innovation and celebrate success during the launch of the new product/service.
  • Survey your current and past customers for feedback or even give them a space to submit their idea for possible reward (if launched).
  • Look for the brightest and best innovative thinkers in your industry and pay them top dollar. It will be a very wise investment.

Here are few things to consider before you Jump-start your business with innovation or a new invention:

Assess Business Value: Conduct a feasibility study to include a cost-benefit analysis, knowing your target market and project how it will affect your overall company short- and long-term.

The BEST part about Innovation and Invention is:

Industry Leader: Your company not only be “on the cutting edge”, but “BE THE EDGE”. Your company will have a unique competitive advantage in your industry.

Increase the Bottom-line: Your market share and bottom line increases with every new product/service that is in direct strategic alignment with your vision and brand.

Let’s get started! JUMP-START YOUR BUSINESS TODAY!

Transcending Horizons Enterprises can help you develop your innovation contributors ecosystem, assess business value, generate witty and innovative ideas. Schedule your Complimentary Discovery Session TODAY go to: www.calendly.com/transcendinghorizons ! Aspire Higher and Soar Beyond the Limits in your Business! Come SOAR with us!

Soaring Beyond Limits,
Dr. Tylisha Johnson
Chief Strategist
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P.O.W. Series: Decisions

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The Power of Words Series: Decisions

Decision is defined as: a determination arrived at after consideration, a conclusion, to make a final choice about what to do,to select as a course of action, to infer on the basis of evidence, to bring to a definitive end, and to induce to come to a choice.

Of course, while making a decision is very common place in our day-to-day living, therefore, you may wonder why it would be considered to be such a powerful word. Decisions hold the key to your future in both business and life. Your ability to just make a decision when faced with many alternatives is key to making progress in your life in all areas.  Life is made up of choices. Wayne Dyer says, “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.”. For the most part, this is true (except for things that may have happened when we were young and we had no control), and the choices that we make or don’t make dictate where we will be in the days ahead of us.  We have the power to change the direction of our lives with one decision at a time. If you don’t like the way things are going in your life, make a decision for a change.

In an old medical alert commercial, there is a scene where an elderly lady is lying on the floor yelling, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”. She had a physical limitation that prevented her from getting off of the floor. In our businesses and in life, there are challenges that arise that make us stumble and fall, but unlike the elderly lady lying on the floor you do have the ability to get up. You can make a decision to get up and start again! It does not matter what has happened in your business or life, who is at fault, or any other perceived limitation, if you have breath in your body, it is time that you make the decision to get up and move forward.  Many people have gone through and overcome great hardship and still kept pressing through to achieve their purpose and destiny. You too have what it takes to fulfill your purpose and destiny in spite of the adversity, if you just make the decision to get back up again.

Overtime, various scholars have developed models for effective decision making. In this article, the focus is not on the process, but on encouraging you to MAKE A DECISION to GET RESULTS IN YOUR LIFE! If you do not make a decision you have made a decision to stay stuck in the state, the position and condition you are currently in. It is easier to stare at your condition and complain about it, than it is to make a decision to get up and DO something about it by MAKING A DECISION!

HERE ARE 5 EASY STEPS TO EMPOWER YOU TO MAKE CHANGES AND GET RESULTS IN BUSINESS AND LIFE:

  1. STOP COMPLAINING
  2. MAKE A DECISION
  3. TAKE THE LEAP
  4. MAKE PROGRESS
  5. GET RESULTS

Remember if you want CHANGE, you have the POWER, it’s SIMPLE: make a DECISION!

The ball is in your court now. Maybe you haven’t made the decision, because you are not sure how to get up and start again. Let the elderly lady on the medical alert commercial teach you a lesson and simply make a decision to ask for help.

Transcending Horizons Enterprises is here to help you get up and start again in business and life. Make the DECISION to contact us today, to schedule your Complimentary Discovery Session! Transcending Horizons Enterprises offers Life Strategy Coaching Programs and Sessions to help you optimize your potential and Soar Beyond the Limits in business and life!

Soaring Beyond Limits,
Dr. Tylisha Johnson
Chief Strategist
 
P.S. We would love to glean your thoughts on the POWER OF DECISION MAKING!

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P.O.W. Series: Tenacity

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Tenacity is defined as being persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired; not easily pulled apart; and not easily stopped.

We are continuing to tap deeper into this Power of Words Series that is inspiring, empowering and giving us the right seeds to plant in our lives that will fortify and propel us into our purpose and destiny.  This blog has been on FIRE with expressing the importance of pursuing Purpose, being Intentional in our pursuit, and doing everything with Intensity!

As we delve deeper into our series, we must realize the pursuit of our purpose and destiny requires Tenacity! It requires us to be persistent with a dogged devotion to achieving our goal. We must be insistent upon producing measurable results as we progress and move forward toward our destiny. There will be times in our pursuit that some stages will take longer than others and it is during these times that we must remain patient.  It is during these times that are desire to achieve the goal may begin to fade. However, we must be Tenacious! Titus Lucretius Carus once said, “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”.  We must understand that it is our constant chopping away at the tasks, that will fulfill the objectives, that will in time help us to achieve our goals and move us closer to our destined place.

Along the way, “life happens” and circumstances arise that present challenges, nevertheless we must be Tenacious. We must be stalwart, which means marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, and spirit. In order to be Tenacious we must be undaunted and courageous when these tribulations arise in our lives. It is important that we root, ground and fortify ourselves spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically, so that we can remain Tenacious.

 

There are many people, including myself, that are testaments to what it takes to remain Tenacious even through tests and trials in our lives. It is during these times, that the thought to give up and through in the towel comes to mind.  But, when you have to “get a grip”! “Get a grip” on that your goal, “get a grip” on your dream and don’t let anything pull you apart from it! You must be UNSTOPPABLE in your pursuit! THERE IS NO “THROWING IN THE TOWEL”! The only thing you need to do with the proverbial “towel” is use it to wipe your brow and keep pressing toward your Dreams! And be Tenacious About it! Remember you will WIN if you don’t quit!

We would love to hear how you remain focused and held on to your goal and your dream through the storms of life.  Please share in the comment section below.  If you would like to share in a vlog or FB Live interview, please let me know. Please help me to encourage others, your testimony, is needed to help encourage and propel and inspire someone else to Aspire Higher and Soar Beyond the Limits in business and life to live the Abundant Life!

Soaring Beyond Limits,

Dr. Tylisha Johnson

Abundant Life Strategist .