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Are You Going To Waste Another Year…?

February 2, 2019February 9, 2019
by Admin

I’m not going to give you any hype, I just want to speak plainly with you about networking.

It has been a struggle for a lot of people over the last few years, and I am not going to try and dwell on what you may have faced, what any of us has faced for that matter.

But we – all of us – are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (and no, it is not an oncoming locomotive… LOL).

The biggest challenge to each and every one of us is resetting our jobs or businesses for the prosperous future that is coming, and a big part of that is being able to connect, communicate and build effective relationships for both personal and business success… something of a lost art I’m afraid.

My name is Leo Petrik from FLOW Australia and I am here to help you succeed.

I feel it’s time that we were connected properly because the next 18 months are critical to each and every one of us to reset our personal and business lives for the global economic turnaround which is just around the corner (although it may not seem like it at the moment).

Now I don’t know whether you network or not, either way, I believe you are doing yourself a grave disservice…

I know that for many people in business… what is out there doesn’t work… and many who have tried networking over the years have learnt with certainty that the so called promises for business leads/referrals and education isn’t being delivered…

So WHAT can businesses DO?

Is there an alternative?

Well YES… now there is…

Come and find out how networking has changed and real networking is done… with only one focus… YOUR SUCCESS…

WHY?

Because… without real, quality connections your business may not grow as quickly as you would like…

Because… learning a few simple skills can and will change the nature of your business and relationships…

Because… success is something we ALL strive for personally and in business, but we don’t always know HOW to do it, or get there…

Networking is actually a LIFE SKILL.

To that end, I would like to start our relationship by offering you a gift, my “5 Top Secrets of Networking!”, which are guaranteed to get your networking moving…

Please click on this link to get your gift – flowaustralia.com.au/five-secrets-of-networking.

I hope that this is the beginning of a great relationship, let’s keep the conversation going.

To become part of a global community and create significant change… contact me by clicking here, to find out if you have what it takes to achieve your goals and dreams and impact powerfully on your community.

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What Can You Achieve?

February 2, 2019February 9, 2019
by Admin

“It’s not just what’s inside you, it’s what you do that defines you!”

I heard this phrase recently, and it made me think quite a bit about how we do or avoid things.

When I first heard this phrase I thought, “That can’t be right, what we are inside makes a huge difference… our passion, our love, our values”, I recently thought this phrase was so wrong…

Then I started thinking, and soon other phrases start to pop into my head that actually supported this statement on so many levels. For example:

“All it takes for evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing.”

A more contemporary phrase is, “Don’t just talk the talk, walk the walk!”

And from the book ‘Magic Kingdom’ – “What you do thunders above your head is so loudly, I cannot hear a word you say.”

I started to realise that you can have all the passion and intent in the world, none of that really matters until you put it into action. Not activity… which is just doing stuff, but action – on purpose, which creates results that impact on yours and others reality.

Too many of us hold back, spending time learning about ourselves, our world, the universe, without realising that knowledge without purpose… active purpose, is as fruitless as no knowledge at all.

The greatest inspirations in history were men and women of action, some of that action was spectacular, for example, creating atomic fusion, exploring outer and inner space. Some of it has been sublimely subtle, like helping lepers in India, but action, it is nonetheless…

So back to the statement, ‘If what we do, defines us’, then we really need to look at how we do what we need do.

How do we move through the world, to make it a better place, not just for us, but for others? What is our purpose in life? Why are we here? What do we need to do to make us better people? Who do we need to connect with to fulfil our lives? Where do we start to achieve what we want to achieve?

These are pretty amazing questions, and each and every one of us is going to answer them in a very, very different way.

For my part, I would like to make a suggestion. It is only a suggestion because I feel that this may be valuable for me, and hopefully, it could be valuable to you, if for no other reason than to give you an idea to set you on your own path.

When I quit smoking, what helped me was to have a small daily goal. Now I know the word goal has a lot of different connotations for different people, however, I use the word goal in its broadest sense. My small daily goal was very simple, it was to ‘not light a cigarette… today’. When I got to tomorrow, my goal was to ‘not light a cigarette… today!’

I kept this up, until I had actually quit smoking.

If we select any goal, whether it is to quit smoking, or to lose weight or to learn public speaking or to simply learn how to make scrambled eggs, when we follow a simple daily goal, we will be able to achieve what we set out to achieve, taking action, real action. This daily goal needs to be simple and achievable, and something you can focus on every single day without too much difficulty.

By achieving our goals, one day at a time, our results start to define us in a very real way. So, as I challenge myself, I challenge you, to find out what it is you want to achieve, set a small daily goal, and move forward in your life, one day, one moment at a time.

I look forward to hearing about your successes, as you define yourself, and as you change your reality around you.

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A system – WHY?

November 6, 2018February 9, 2019
by Admin

Is Systemising a Business a Waste of Time?

We hear about systems ALL the time, yet for some reason, businesses fail to grasp the intrinsic importance of a good business system and continue to ignore the necessity of implementing even the most basic systems to their businesses.

Here are four points that I believe need to be considered and understood when thinking, talking about, designing or implementing a system.

1. Businesses need to learn that systems are about different processes within the operation of your business… they are not rules or policies or regulations that everyone in the business must follow (although some or all of these things could be part of your system).

Every business will need different systems for different processes within their operation.

For example… there needs to be a system for dealing with and entering receipts throughout the organisation on all expenditure that is generated by all relevant staff, I mean really… they are spending the company’s money after all.

If there is no system in place then anyone at any time can spend anything and before too long the company will have no money or worse find themselves in debt because they haven’t controlled their cash flow, their debts and their receipts.

As obvious as it sounds, a simple bookkeeping system is needed by ALL businesses to ensure that there is money in the bank and that the business is not operating insolvently. Yet many businesses do not have such a system in place.

2. Businesses need to plan for the systems they need… and the processes that they have.

As you can see bookkeeping is simply one system within an organisation, most businesses will need a system with regards to customer engagement, marketing, sales processes and product or service delivery, just to name a few.

As a person in business, you may need to start looking at your business as a process from beginning to end, and look at the different sections of your business that flow one into each other.

Once you are able to identify the flow of your business, then the processes will be a lot easier to identify and then you can engage professional to help to create the necessary systems you may need to simplify your operations.

3. Don’t leave your systems gathering dust.

One of the biggest challenges with most businesses is that even though they take the time to work out how their business flows and then they invest the time and the money in creating the appropriate systems, once the manuals are written they seem to sit on a shelf gathering dust.

I can admit this now, but once I was one of the biggest anti-system people in the business world. I played with systems, I saw organisations with systems and I even created a few in my time.

But I never applied them to my own endeavours and ended up wasting enormous amounts of time, energy AND money that should have been applied… or been invested in worthwhile systems… that could have been used to create greater efficiencies in time and energy.

Today… I leave the system design and implementation to others who are better equipped for it (some of my business associates for example). However, I now use these systems, because as I have discovered painfully… systems… good simple and effective systems, actually set a business person free to do what they do best.

They are quite simple to design and implement (by the right person)… but implement them one at a time… do not try to implement all your systems at the same time, this is a recipe for disaster.

REMEMBER, systems set you free, implement them one at a time and you will have created a successful business.

4. Kaizen (改善), Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the best”.

Kaizen was a development by the Japanese after William Edwards Deming who was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant set Japan on the path to industrial super stardom after the Second World War.

Where your business systems are concerned, you need to have at least an understand the basics of kaizen… making small improvements on an ongoing basis.

No system is perfect!

The systems you create today will need to be constantly tested, measured and improved on as your business grows and develops in its size and complexity.

If you check your systems on a regular basis you will find that making small, important improvements will be very easy as you have already created a culture using them within your organisation (the McDonald’s brothers and their kitchen designs, which were constantly tested and improved upon, revolutionised the fast food industry).

These are just four (4) simple steps to help you on your way to thinking of systems in a positive and engaging manner.

There is so much more you can learn and read… and you should… once you recognise the importance of systems in your business.

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You Want Instant… Stop Bitching About The Result!

October 27, 2018February 9, 2019
by Admin

This problem needs your attention.

Instant this… instant that… when is it going to stop!

Guess what? It’s not!

You want instant business success… well I’ve got news for you and it’s all bad… THERE IS NO SUCH THING!

So how do you fix this… how can you achieve the success you want, in the shortest possible time.

Let me get to that in a moment, but there is something you need to understand first.

You live in an instant world so get used to it, but PLEASE… stop bitching about the results, because you can always do something about it.

You use instant coffee, pre-made food or take out, instant entertainment, instant connection using social media… Et cetera, et cetera… and you are never satisfied.

Yet when you make a decent cup of coffee (not instant) or go to a good coffee shop, you appreciate the quality of the coffee that you are drinking and you savour every moment as you take the time to chill, look at the world and enjoy a coffee (or tea, if you prefer).

It’s no different with food.

You often throw things together quickly (usually from a packet, or you get take out), throw it down, and wonder why you don’t enjoy your meals and yet when you go out to dinner and have good quality, fresh food that is prepared for you, or for that matter, when you actually prepare a PROPER meal for yourself, you savour every single mouthful and you appreciate the work you have put into the meal or the effort a chef and the restaurant staff are doing for you.

And don’t get me started on social media… so connected and yet so lonely… REALLY!

So… let’s get back to your business

To be better connected, to build and have fabulous conversations with real people… you need to take time.

From my perspective (and it’s just my view), there is no greater joy than having a great conversation, over good coffee/tea, building a strong relationship… AND one of the side benefits of doing this, is that you can build a successful and profitable business quickly and easily (NO not INSTANT), as any good relationship takes time and effort.

To do this right, it does take time and effort, but not as much as you think. So where do you start?

I would like to start by giving you a gift, my “5 Top Secrets of Networking!”, which are guaranteed to get your business networking moving…

Please click on this link to get your gift – “Five Secrets of Networking”

I hope that this is the beginning of a great relationship, let’s keep the conversation going.

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Are You Going To Waste Another Year…?

What Can You Achieve?

“It’s not just what’s inside you, it’s what you do that defines you!”

A system – WHY?

You Want Instant… Stop Bitching About The Result!