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There are moments when life is pushing you to quit:

 Your emotions as you are fed up with putting in the effort without harvesting a reward.

 Loss of hope.

 The credo of life coaches telling you that continuing doing the same thing will yield the same result.

Before you quit consider the following:

 You might do the “right thing” but not at the right time or right location.

 You might do the “right thing”, but something is missing, something has to be added.

 You might do the “right thing”, but something does not fit in, something has to be subtracted.

 You might do the “right thing”, but you do it alone and not with partners.

When your conclusion is to quit, quit when you know what else you will do instead.

SEASON GREETINGS

We are now in the season of cocooning, friendship, and love. When you send your company’s season greetings consider this and value your relationship with your customers instead of sending a standard marketing message valuating your product.

BLACK FRIDAY

Why this frenzy to sell without a decent margin? If you participated, consider to abstain next year. Your profitability will thank you for it.

To stay on the sunny side of existence, be the other person's sunshine person. Be it with your words, products and services. How? It depens on the person you are with. It's up to you to find out. 

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

What a great feeling to be on the road again cruising forward after a period of stagnation.

Spare your customer the frightening and worrying about stagnation and forced inactivity. Be transparent about your services and products and share your failure rate and compare it to the benchmark of your industry. 

Offer a 24/24/7 customer service including back up solutions for your customer. Make frequent publicity about the reliability of your company and the back up solutions you offer. Yours customers might value this feeling of security even more than your products.

If your lowest delivery capacity is equal or higher to  your peak demand, then you have and will never have delivery problems. To avoid delivery problems your mean delivery capacity must at least equal your mean demand. For times when your demand is higher than your delivery capacity you may do one of the following:

> supply froom previously build inventory

> get help (using someone else's capacity)

> compensate late output by faster delivery

How do you react when you fail? Is it something like :

> do not despair

> elevate yourself from bad temper, frustration and self shaming

> hit the pedal, accelerate and cruise again

If you do this congratulate yourself. You are a living example of resilience.

Please consider using the comment section to share with the readers how you do this.

FEAR

Are you worried? Have you got serious preoccupations? How do you think to handle them?

> Paying an assurance?

> Turning a blind eye?

> Practive posititve thinking and assuming things will finally be ok?

> Taking medecine to calm your nerves?

Did you ask yourself how other people manage fear? Some say "Prepare for the worst and hope for the best".

Sounds not bad at all, doesn't it?

There is more to investment than buying shares. You may invest in training, equipment, real estate, by preparing what is to come. So many ways to prepare a better tomorrow. And there are many more possibilities. May be you share some in the comment section. I offer it to you as a possibility to invest into mankind. Use your chance and go ahead.

SELLING

Most books teach how to sell a maximum of merchandise or services. The leitmotiv being the more the better. Ethical selling adds some value to unrestricted selling to limit its excesses. Some businesses only sell environmentally friendly products or products made in facilitites for handicapped people. Running your business according to your valures is a great opportunity to being true to yourself and to give testimony of what you stand for.