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The best decision
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The best decision That's what you aim for: The best decision... within what you have. Will it be THE best decision ever? Fuck no. It'll be the decision that lets you move. And steer in the way. And how you get to make big, bold decisions that don't harm you? Starting with small ones. Against the common conception of "Quality beats quantity", this (as in writing) has to do more with quantity over quality. At the right scale. Small decisions let you practice, learn, refine, correct. So that when you reach the point to do a big one, it comes easier. BTW, you don't learn how to decide. That's innate. It's part of being human. You have the agency to do that. You develop how to decide better. That comes with practice. |
Rod Aparicio
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Super Deluxe Hardback Book in Cloth, Slipcase with Exclusive Blue Color LP. 4 105 EUR Would you pay for this? Material production costs. 35 - 50 EUR Effort put into it. A lot. Does it make this worth it per se? Signature. 0.5 EUR in the ink used. It's just a book, after all. Unless, the price is not about what's the book made of. Or the cover. Or its story. Or the attached LP. Or because it's "deluxe". Or even the signature.
Business is not busyness. Being busy doesn't mean you're actually bringing value to your business. And even worse, you might not bringing value to your customers (the right ones). You might end up full of tasks, to-dos, overwhelm and choose to focus on every customer (because they're all important, right?). And what you're doing is choosing to ignore your most profitable ones over the ones who are not. Keeping that game for long will end in only busyness —quite likely without a business.
It's a way to have what you gain over your prospects and customers' proposed set budget. Think of it as the extra fund for fun (new projects, new products, more vacation, more bonuses, paid-time-to-think-bigger...). Blair Enns calls it your RAB Fund. And gives this example: Let’s say you have a client with a stated budget of $20,000 and you present a proposal with options priced at $20k, $35k and $90k. (Don’t read too much into those numbers or their relationships with each other.) If the...