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The elephant
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There are situations that can be VERY stressful —within your business, with your prospects, with your clients. Kicking them down the road to not deal with them feels tempting, and you might even feel like they're avoidable. They're not. Sometimes they're an elephant stomping and charging your way. Because you put your hands in front of your face won't make them disappear —and certainly won't stop them. Make the decision. Take the decision. You already know what to do. And it's a simple decision. Which doesn't mean it's easy, nor that the consequences aren't hard. |
Rod Aparicio
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Some replies to yesterday's message went from taking the hit (because you're not feeling it), to ignore it, to keep doing your great work, to respond with another attacking move. They all work. What if their move is a copycat of your work? And that they claim it's theirs? What happens when you set the standard, they follow your standard and now it looks like there's no different one in the market?
What do you do when your competitors make an attacking move? Do you... Hold tight and take the hit? Respond with another hit of the same move? (And eye for an eye) Come up with a move they did not expect?
Making decisions look into the future. All of the data you might have is past data. The more information and data points you have won't make your decision more certain. They all involve risk. Make small, calculated risk-decisions. That way you won't need to make a BIG one too radical too fast. Save your energy for those ones.