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The LibertineThe Quiet Writer (35)    The Quiet Writer How To Make Your Business BOOM! (in troubled times)Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 (173 days 10 hours ago.) Viewed 8 times. I'm a freelance writer - my copy is intended to sell other people's products and services on the internet. But I'm also a son, to a man who knows more than he probably realises. What these two statements about myself have in common can be summed in a quote by a man who, according to those who knew him, was great. "President means chief servant" - Mahatma Ghandi
The connection is a moral uttered to me by the man to whom I am a son. I was able to apply that moral recently in a business situation, which led to a potentially successful business relationship. Do you want to know what that moral is?
Let your client be right.
To complete the picture I'll have to mention that I used to work in an industry where "the client is always wrong". And that was true - most clients were idiots, proven time and time again. However the act of looking down on your clients provides a playing field for negative emotions - emotions that will manifest in business relationships turning sour. When relationships turn sour, profitability goes out the door. So what happens if your client is wrong, but it insist on being right?
To let your client be right, you have to allow them to be wrong, too.
When your client insits in taking a course of action that you know will be adverse to their prosperity, it is wise to supply them with caution and all the tools that will assist them with making the right decision, however let that decision be theirs. Some people only learn through their mistakes.
However there's another reason why you should allow your client to be right: they know their business, their situation, better than you do. In some cases your advice or aim might not be what they had in mind - even if it was to make more money "now!". Business, I have learnt, is not about making money, it's about serving the people that supply you with their custom. Money is just a result - a dead piece of metal or a processed but of wood. That's why the president is the "chief servant", servant to the people who provide him with the opportunity to lead. On a final note, it needn't be said that once you start serving your customers with the respect that they deserve, prosperity will follow. 
Permalink Comments (0) How To Turn Bad Luck AroundPosted Monday, June 01, 2009 (176 days 7 hours ago.) Viewed 78 times. Many famous individuals, both past and present, did at some stage have something to say about that which we call "Bad Luck". While some chose to look the lion in the eyes, like Catherine of Siena: "To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.", others have been a bit more contemporary, a bit more human, about it as is the case with Joseph Heller: "Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck." The fact of the matter is that bad luck happens to us all at some stage and it is then that we ball our fists to the heavens and cry "Why me?!" in anguish. Not so? So how do you turn "Bad luck" and turn it into good luck? The simple and very honest truth is that luck is a matter of perception - how we see it in light of what we expected. In fact, it is possible to go even further and say that we can only experience "Good Luck" when we know "Bad Luck". An analogy that can be used to demonstrate the veracity of the theory is the simple "You won't be able to observe light if you can't observe darkness". "Enough!" I hear you shout. Good luck seems temporary and bad luck seems to last and last! True, but you can help good luck along with a couple of simple steps Do Something for Someone Else When we're down in the dumps the last thing we want to do is help anyone else, I know. But you have to admit that just taking that one step to connect with someone else and make their day better well, makes you happy. The reason for this is that we close up when we're stressed or anxious. We forget that what we really need is people. They not only help us feel better, but they also help us with our problems be it finding a new job, a new boyfriend or girlfriend, etc. So open up and share yourself with someone to lure Lady Fortune back into your garden. Courage Have courage in the face of adversity it's a rule to live by. Staying positive when times are tough takes far more courage than those situations we fear when we have nothing to worry about (spiders in my case). It builds character and adds nobility to life; it's a story to tell or advice to give. Work Hard AND Smart There's a reason why things are turning out this way. But don't look back. The best thing you can do for yourself is to put the pedal to the metal and labour away at your soon-to-arrive blue skies. But it pays to work smart, too, to ensure that you set yourself up for more good times rather than just getting rid of misfortune. This will ensure that, when the dark clouds arrive again, you'll be in a better position to take it without flinching and turn it around much quicker. So take some time to work out a strategy make a list of the things that make you unhappy and plan a routine to get rid of them. And once you have that routine, fine-tune it and stick to it!
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