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2 Things You Need To Grow Your Successful Business

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Two things you need to grow your successful business.

Back to BrianJPombo.com and Brian J. Pombo Live, which is brought to you by DreamBizChat.com. Go DreamBizChat.com if you’re a business owner or executive that in a self-reliance based business, meaning that you sell products and services to people to help them become more self reliant.

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Welcome back. We are here in Grants Pass Oregon and today we’re going to be talking about the two things you need to grow your successful business beyond where it currently is. Take it to the entirely new next level and these two things don’t come from me.

They come from a guy named Gary Bencivenga. He is a famous world famous copywriter, he’s made a living at writing really good advertising copy, really amazing, sold millions and millions of millions worth of products through the years.

I believe he’s, for the most part, retired now, but you could still find a lot of his material out there.

One of the things he put out years ago was something called marketing bullets. And these are a number of articles that he wrote about specific marketing principles. And one of them we’re talking about today is bullet number 29. You can find them, they’re all for free out there or over on marketingbullets.com and I recommend reading everything that Gary Bencivenga has put out through the years. It’s amazing stuff. Really good.

It all applies back to sales, but sales applies to anything have you do with business, which is why we’re talking about it here.

Two things he mentions in this, in this specific article, this bullet number 29, and the two things we’re going to be talking about today is the two things that he sees are necessary for success of all copywriters.

In reality, it’s necessary for success in anybody that’s growing a business.

And even if you’ve had a successful business up until now, chances are if you’re not able to go any further, there’s these two things. One of these two things is getting in your way or both. And we’re going to just go touch on them real quick today.

Tomorrow I want to talk about the rest of his article, which we’ll get more into that tomorrow.

But first I want to go over these two things.

The first thing you have to have, which is the first thing everyone always focuses on is the mastery of your craft.

So whatever it is that you’re attempting to get out there to sell more of, maybe it’s a service, maybe it’s a product. Either way, if you’re looking again at out there, you’ve got to really be a master of whatever it is you’re trying to get out there.

You have to really know what you’re doing, what you’re providing for the end customer and really know it as well as possible. And that’s something that really never ends.

You’re always going to be learning more and more and more on how to go about doing that. That’s the first main thing.

We almost always focus on that.

But the second thing that oftentimes is missing are the list of complete success principles. Not meaning that you need to have the list, you need to have a strong mastery and grasp of success principles.

And if you’re ever in a position where you feel like your growth is being stifled, it’s very simply because you aren’t paying close enough attention to one of those success principles.

It could be time management, it could be personal discipline, it could be all these different things that you hear talked about individually. But you have to have a really strong knowledge and a growing relationship with those success principles.

You’ve got to know them better and better. You may not have emphasized each piece of those things into your business. Even if you’re not good at any one of them, you need to at least know that there, know about them, know that they’re necessary, and be able to identify it in somebody else. Someone else’s grasp of one of those principles so that your business can continue growing.

These are very big, broad concepts that we’re talking about today, but we’re going to go into a little bit more detailed tomorrow when we discussed the rest of that article. Bullet number 29 of barriers. His name is because it’s late here in Oregon.

Gary Bencivenga’s marketing bullets, great stuff.

Like I said, you could always check those out. Also, go to DreamBizChat.com. That’s all it for tonight. We’ll see you back here tomorrow. You have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Are Your Prospective Customers Raising Their Hand?

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Are your prospective customers raising their hands?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live today.

Live from Tracy, California down here for my cousin’s wedding. Actually just went to it tonight and just got back. You could tell I’m a little worn out. My throat’s a little horse and a little tired from running around after my children, the family wedding.

But it doesn’t mean we can’t hang out for just a quick minute here and wanting to tell y’all…..remind you, if you haven’t been with me here before about DreamBizChat.com.

DreamBizChat.com as a place to go, especially if you’re a business owner or an executive in the self-reliance space, meaning that you provide products and services to people to help them become more self reliant. If you are a decision maker in that field, go to DreamBizChat.com go and watch the video.

Let me know what you think. Fill out the application if you think it applies to you. And, I think you’ll be happy that you did. Love to find out whether you are or you aren’t.

So today we’re talking about prospective customers.

So you know, you have people out there that could quite possibly be your prospect.

So what are you doing to get in touch with them ahead of time?

How are you having them raise their hand, figuratively?

How are you getting them to raise their hand and say, yes, I’m interested in what you’re offering before you ever get a chance to actually offer it to them?

Can you get them to raise their hand?

This concept, it’s been bandied about quite a bit. I think this, this specific idea I’ve heard the most from Dean Jackson, who we’ve talked about before. You can go and look his stuff up.

He has a number of podcasts and so forth. Dean Jackson, a marketing guru who, comes from the real estate field to begin with, but his concepts work regardless of where you’re at. And it’s all about finding out who your ideal prospect is for your product or service. Getting them to raise their hand ahead of time, which is what we call lead generation.

How do you get people to become leads?

How do you generate leads?

How do you get them to say, I may quite be, I might be interested in what you have going. So there’s a bunch of different ways we can go about looking at this. Let’s say you’re offering beehives that you have as a specific type of beehive and you’re trying to see people who would be interested in beehives.

Well, this is the most common thing that you’re seeing online and you have seen for, for close to 20 years now, is that you’ll have somebody have a free report, something of that sort.

And it will say, you know…..Top 10 Things that People Mess Up With When Deciding to Get a Beehive.

I’m just making that up off the top of my head. You have some type of report, something free that someone can basically raise their hand. Say yeah, I’m interested in that. I want to know more about beehives.

Well, who’s your prospective customers?

The people that are going to be interested in beehives. And so even before you’ve offered them your product, you’re getting them to raise their hand and say, this is me. I’m the type of person you want to be talking to.

Now, why is that important?

It’s important because for one thing, you can get in a conversation with them and find out more about them and where they’re coming from and be able to, gear all the rest of your marketing toward that type of personality and the type of person that’d be interested in what you’re doing.

On another end. It gives you the chance to touch base with them over and over and over again, whether it be by email, whether it be by phone, regardless of what the lead is. Whether it’s an address or what have you, you’ll get a chance to be able to talk to them over and over again.

Once you’ve generated that lead, what you’ve gotten them to raise their hand. So we’ve got some people on the chat here, Joe was back with us. He says, try visiting your prospect’s business before you approach them. And that’s great.

If you’re doing any form of business to business, and Joe knows this well because of the work that he does, if you’re doing any type of business to business, then try going ahead of time before you’re approaching them specifically and trying to sell them. Go and see what they’re about.

Go and take a look at what they’re providing.

Even better purchase something from them. If you buy something from someone that you’re looking to buy from you, that’s a way to be able to get in communication with them and talk to them.

I don’t know of any way more important to be able to get in touch with somebody who when you’re doing business to business specifically, but even if you’re doing business to consumer, you have to find a way to put yourself in their shoes.

Put yourself in the places where they go and be able to have conversations, talk to people ahead of time, get them in the long run to raise their hand. That’s the whole point of tonight’s talk.

Get your prospects to raise their hand. By doing that, you’ll be able to have the conversations necessary to be able to make your product better. Make your marketing better.

You’ll be able to reconnect them over and over and over again. It just makes sense.

I appreciate all you, all of you for being on tonight and we’re going to talk to you tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ve got a handful of different things to talk about, but somewhere probably around the same lines, but we’ll talk to you tomorrow.

You have a great night now. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Do Things Happen To You or For You?

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Do things happen to you or for you?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Today, coming to you live from Tracy, California outside. It’s quite windy. I apologize if you’re not able to hear me well, but I’m out on the back deck of my father’s house out here in Tracy, California.

Let me see if I can show you a little bit of the view here or looking out. Looking out. Let’s see. Can you see, Oh well of course it would help if my finger were not over the lens. This is a Tracy, California at night.

I see Joseph Costamagna is watching. Hey Joe hanging out here in Tracy. See if I can wipe off the lens. This is all live folks. This is all live. So that kind of gives you a perspective.

So do things happen to you or for you?

And this is from a quote that my friend Sean McNeil posted on Facebook than I really enjoy.

Hey, how’s it going?

Sean McNeil was saying that. Everything either happens to you or for you, says it all depends on your perspective and really everything always depends on your perspective.

If you think about it, and that’s a perfect example and it’s an attitude adjustment and something to keep an eye on yourself is whether you think things happen to you or for you. You say, well, yeah, but that can’t be the only options.

But really it is in a sense, it is because if things happen to you, you’re a victim and things just happen to you constantly and things are just always happening on top of you that the fates are out to get you.

But if things are happening for you, you could say, well that’s pretty self-centered.

What do you mean things happen for you?

But I think it pays to be a little bit self-centered.

You have to see the world from yourself out, because that’s who you are. You have to see how things are coming together for you. And not that everything happens just for you, but from your perspective, you have to see it as they’re happening for you.

You have to have a little bit of that concept of destiny that I like to talk about and you can watch some of my other videos regarding destiny. I think if you don’t, you’re always going to feel like things are happening to you.

You’re still secretly believe in destiny, but you believe that it’s all out to get you. You believe you’re faded to something bad. That’s just no way to live. You gotta be able to see the good things.

You’ve gotta be able to see the shiny things and be able to see the good things that are happening for you because they’re everywhere. Whether you’re taking advantage of them or not, you’ve got opportunity everywhere. You’ve got the ability to do so many things and you could see that other people may not have those same things.

When I talk about white privilege and stuff like this, I think we’re all privileged in our own way. And even the most worst case scenario, worst case situations that occur can be a privilege, can be useful, we could use to our advantage.

Viktor Frankl, the guy that wrote ahh……what’s the name of his famous book?

A Man’s Search for Meaning.

This was a guy that survived the concentration camps and he started taking perspective. It’s great book. You gotta read it, A Man’s Search for Meaning.

Or go listen to the audio. It’s free on YouTube. You go listen to it. The whole idea is that, he was in a concentration camp. He started looking at, if I’m able to survive this, how can I take this and make it useful?

How do I disconnect from the circumstances and look at this objectively and be able to use what I’m going through here to be able to help people. And he did. He was healthier than everybody else. When he got up and left and he went out and took that perspective and spread across the world and just by writing that one book has been able to help millions and millions of people even after he’s died.

So did things happened to him?

Did the Holocaust happen to him or did it happen for him?

It’s all perspective folks.

You got to always keep in mind that your perspective will help determine your destiny. Just a quick thought for tonight. Hope you have a great night.

We’re all going to be back here tomorrow.

If you are a business owner or an executive that’s in the self-reliance field, maybe you have products and services that help people to become more self reliant. You could tell a lot of my talks and you could watch some my other videos to get a more of a flavor for it. A lot of my talks all revolve around people becoming more self-reliant as entrepreneurs, as business owners, as executives, as people running companies.

The whole concept is how do you become a self-reliant as possible so that you can help others, whether they have the ability to be self-reliant or not. If you are, go to DreamBizChat.com.

I’d love for you to watch the video there. It’s eight and a half minutes long. You don’t have to put in your email or anything else. Go watch it. It’s free. If you feel like we’d be a good fit, fill out the application and see if we can sit down and have a little chat.

Love to be able to talk with you and find out more about you. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Entrepreneurial Loneliness?

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Entrepreneurial loneliness. Do you suffer from it?

Brian Pombo coming to you from California on the I-5 freeway driving down to go to a wedding. My cousin’s wedding, sorry for the shaky camera work and if there’s any extra noise in the background, I appologize.

I’m sorry it’s so dark, but it’s apropos to our subject matter today. Real quick, I’m going to give a quick plug to, DreamBizChat.com. If you’re a business owner or executive that’s in the self-reliance field. To learn more go check it out. Let me know about the video. I’ve got an eight and a half minute video there you will watch for free.

Go watch it, tell me what you think. DreamBizChat.com.

Entrepreneurial loneliness I think is a very common combination that people deal with. If you’re an entrepreneur, if you’re doing anything on your own and you’re one of the people that’s in charge, it’s real easy to get kind of glow about it because there’s not really anyone to talk to and there’s just points at which you’re going through something you can’t talk to anyone else.

Not necessarily that you’re depressed, but I think anybody that either owns a business or is running a business that you get to a point where there’s nobody to talk to.

The best cure I’ve found for this is finding a sounding board, finding a sounding board, finding somebody who has enough intelligence and possibly that you’re experiencing, owning a business, running a business, someone who can kind of put themselves in your shoes to a certain extent and understand what you’re going through.

Understand the questions that you’re asking over where to go next. Even just being able to put your ideas out there. We’ve discussed earlier about self milking cow that Dean Jackson talks about.

Go watch my video on the self milking cow. It’s the same concept.

Just have somebody, it’s worth your money too. This will really help alleviate the entrepreneurial loneliness that we all go through because it allows you to get your ideas out of your head and just being able to hear your own words makes such a huge difference.

If you think about the times that you’ve really been able to crystallize a concept, oftentimes it’s when you’ve been able to lay it out for somebody else, not necessarily that what they come back with from you or to you. Have a great one. Get out there and let the magic happen.

What Can Doctors Teach Us About Customer Service?

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What can doctors teach us about customer service?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live, sent out every day live from Grants Pass Oregon. Today we’re back in the blank office, the new headquarters for Brian J. Pombo Live.

And you could see behind me, this is some of the bookshelves we haven’t put together yet. So we still got it in pieces. I’m in my baseball cap and tee shirt because Wednesday’s are my day at home with the family.

So just doing odd jobs and looking after the kids. And I wanted to talk about a conversation that I had earlier with with my good friend Jesse.

I know he watches, so he’ll get to hear this. He’ll remember the conversation because we were talking about who’s the one profession that nearly everybody trusts without even thinking about it.

We’ll do what they tell us to do though they don’t have the power of law behind them. They just hold rain over everybody. And there’s a whole bunch of reasons for that. I’m not going to get deeply into all of them, but there’s one specific thing that they do that changes everything.

Of course, I’m talking about doctors, it’s in the title, right?

We’re talking about doctors. Doctors will tell us to do whatever to fix whatever problem we come to them with and most people are going to go along with it. As long as it doesn’t seem too difficult, too painful, we’re all gonna go along with it.

Oftentimes, unless you’re really a Renegade and like to fight with your doctor or like to try alternative medicine, stuff like that. But in general, most people, most of the time we’ll take whatever pill their doctor tells them to.

We’ll do whatever procedure their doctor tells them to, as long as they can prevent pain in. For the most case, we don’t go to the doctors to prevent disease. We just don’t.

It’s not something we go and do and this is why doctors have more pull over us than does a nutritionist or a fitness coach in general. Most of us are going to listen to the doctor a lot more than we will any of those other people. We may take their advice, we may ask them what they think about this and that, but it’s not necessarily something that we’re going to follow through with with a doctor.

There’s an authority figure there that you feel like you have to follow along with that you got to go along with. And there’s the incentive of having a pain or an issue that you know needs to be fixed.

How’s this draw back into business? How’s this go back into everything that we talk about on a daily basis? Well, it all comes back to your business with a concept called prescriptive selling.

I don’t remember who came up with it. I don’t know who first talked about it, but you hear it talked about here and there. And that’s the idea before you sell a product or service to your customers, having a way for them to go step by step to tell you what their problem is, to tell you what their issues are that your product or service solves.

This creates trust because they don’t feel like you’re just selling them blankly. Something that you think they should want based on their demographic, based on their position, based on their career, your solving a problem that they came to you with this.

This is very helpful. If you’ve got a website, for example, let’s say you have a website that has many different products. Let’s say you had a whole bunch of nutritional products, the best thing you can do is take a person through some type of survey.

If nothing else, if it’s even if it’s automated, having some form of survey where you can find out what they need and then prescribe them what you have going. People trust that more. The prescription is trusted so much more than a blanket sale. The blanket sale always comes off. One sided comes off, selfish comes off as you’re selling me something like a person going door to door that you just feel like I’m just the next door in line.

You don’t really care about me. You don’t really care about what my issues are, your just going the next person in line.

The more you can make it about the person that’s true customer service, the more you can make it about their problem, their specific problem.

Even if you have something that everyone has a problem for, even if you have something that literally everyone should own, you still need to bring the person in on the decision process. They’ll trust you more.

They’ll feel like it’s less of a sale. They’ll believe in your product and or service and use it more regularly based on that concept. This is if you’re really looking for a longterm customer, if you’re looking for a onetime customer, these concepts don’t matter as much.

But if you’re looking for someone that wants to come back again and again and again to either get your service or sign up for a subscription and stay on this subscription to purchase other products over and over and over again, that trust is built from the prescriptive sale.

If you’d like to find out more ideas about this, if you’re in the self-reliance field, which is an area that I play to quite a bit and I’m finding out more and more people in the self-reliance field, you can find out more about that. Go to my podcast OffTheGridBiz.com you could hear some examples of self-reliance companies and people that I’ve worked with and have talked to and finding out more about self-reliance.

You could also go to DreamBizChat.com if you’re an owner, a business owner, or executive, and you have products or services that help people become more self reliant, go to DreamBizChat.com.

There’s also a link in the description, and if you want, if you’re not in that field, but you like to find out some more about me, maybe watch some more videos, maybe learn some more of these concepts or find out how this could apply directly to your business.

Go to BrianJPombo.com and you’re always welcome to come back tomorrow because we do these day after day after day after day, every day here on Brian J. Pombo Live. Tomorrow we’ll be back here in the same spot, bringing you another concept, and I’d love to hear some back and forth.

So leave a comment down below you. Have a great night and get out there and let the magic happen.

Do You Put Off Fixing You?

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That’s the question today.

Do you put off fixing you?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live brought to you by DreamBizChat.com. Coming to you from Grants Pass Oregon.

If you are a business owner or an executive in the self-reliance field and you are really looking to take your business to another level and not quite sure how to do it, you’re where you’re at but you want to take it to the next level and you want somebody to be able to talk around your ideas, go to DreamBizChat.com. Link is in the description.

There’s a video there you can watch to see if the dream biz chat would work for you. Now today we’re going to talk about putting off fixing yourself. I think a lot of us procrastinate on that we’re like, “Oh, I’ll deal with that later.”

But a specific thing in general that I came across today with an associate of mine and it’s a grudge. If you have a grudge with somebody, if you’ve got a pent up resentment towards someone, especially if you need to work with this person long-term, you’ve got to get it off your plate, you’ve got to get it out of the way.

So a friend of mine came to me and was telling me about this grudge that he had with somebody and he wanted to talk about it a little bit and I said, well in the end you need to talk with that person. You need to get over it.

You either need to find a way to drop it yourself or you’ve got to confront it with that person and tell them what’s going on and either find a way around it or get out of the situation where you have to work with this person.

You got to make sure that you’ve got something good going. He wanted to put it off.

He said, “Yeah, you know, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.”

And I said, well, if you’re telling me all these other things that came about because of it, because one thing leads to another, leads to another to where you can’t stand being in the same room with a person, where you can’t stand listening to them talk, it get to the point where they can……. I know men specifically get to the point where they could have so much rage towards somebody they feel like punching them in the face and it’s not healthy.

These are things you’ve got to get over.

It’s necessary sometimes to have to go so far in one direction that you realize you’ve got to stop and go, okay, wait a second. What’s going on?

This comes back to a point that I like to go back to over and over again about being a reality grounded.

It’s important to be reality grounded. Whenever you find, “the ground of your being” form of emotional earthquake, you have to keep in mind that something’s wrong.

You got to fix it and you’ve got to fix it as soon as you can. As soon as you are able to see that something’s wrong, take advantage of that inspiration and fix it.

Don’t let it go. You let it go. It will only faster. It will only get worse. It will morph into something else and most of the time if you’ve got a problem with somebody, it’s going to come about….even if that person passes away before you’re able to solve it, it’ll come up in the next version of that person.

A look alike person, someone that smells alike, someone that has the same attitude or the same personality and it will just get worse and worse and worse through time.

That’s why most psychologists and everything, they say that most of our problems with people, when we really have an instinctual issue with somebody right off the bat, it comes back to issues with your parents because you didn’t solve the issue with your parents.

You end up running into, you think about the parent that you got.

You get along with the worst or got along with the worst, and you’ll notice that if you never solved your issues with them, you end up meeting your parent and person after person, after person. Usually you end up marrying that person.

It comes up over and over and over again.

It’s the nature of trauma.

I don’t want to get too deep into this, but this is important for your business. If we’re having a good, serious business talk. Good serious business deals and working with people.

Especially a business that gives you any form of passive income or any type of stability, keep that in mind when you’re running across a person that you just can’t stand, get over it or be direct with them and get it out of the way. Get that concept out of the way.

Don’t just bury it on the inside. Get over your resentments of people and you’ll find life will become a whole lot more easier and your business will become more of a blessing to your life.

Hopefully that’s helpful.

If you like to talk with me about some of these issues as far as what you’re dealing with in your business, go to BrianJPombo.com. If you’re in the self-reliance field, go to DreamBizChat.com and sign up for a free dream business transformation.

If you qualify, go fill out the application.

So you have a great day. Tomorrow we’re going to talk about some more stuff. Come on back. We’re here every day so get out there and let the magic happen in your life.

How Do You Focus?

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How do you focus?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you live from Grants Pass Oregon today. Let’s talk a little bit about focus and how you personally focus on things. There’s two great sins to focusing.

The first sin is in not focusing enough and being too broad minded. Oftentimes those of us who are guilty of this the most, we’re too big pictured.

We’re always looking at the big picture of things and have a tough time seeing the details. And then the second sin would be over focusing and getting so detailed that the old line, you miss the forest through the trees.

So you over-focus you get accused of being overly detailed. You may have little habits that are a little bit OCD, little obsessive compulsive, and that comes from being too detailed, too focused.

So which is better?

They’re both bad.

They’re the two extremes and they’re two things that you’re probably guilty of one or the other on a regular basis.

Now, how do we go about solving that?

I’ll get to that in a second.

First I want to remind you about DreamBizChat.com if you haven’t been to go there. Link is in the description, dream biz chat.com specifically for business owners and executives in the self-reliance field. But I’d love for you to go there and go check it out.

There’s a video there you don’t have to add in your email address or anything of that sort. Just go watch the video if you think it applies to you. Fill out the application for your very own dream business transformation chat DreamBizChat.com now focus is the secret to focus more or focus less?

Well, it depends on which sin you’re guilty of the most. If you get too detail oriented, realize that that’s probably where your conation lands.

So we’ve talked about conation before. It’s talked a lot about by Kathy Colby and she discusses the four major areas of conation. These are the concepts of where you work the most and if you are very detail oriented, chances are that’s just the way your brain was built.

Don’t try and think the opposite. But be open to the fact that the opposite exists, help, you may need partners, you may need other people that can see more of the big picture, but you bring value to the table because then you can help somebody that is guilty of seeing too big.

So I’m one of those people, I tend to look at the big picture of things and tend to miss the details.

So I need somebody on my team. So our podcast producer Sean helps me out to focus in, down into the details and to keep focus on the details, on the goals at hand and not get thrown off by this and that and go after bright shiny objects.

If you’re someone that’s detail oriented, you need to find others that aren’t and help to reign them in a little, be patient with them, but at the same time point out the details that they may be missing. Now if you are more broad minded, you’re going to need people like that on your team.

You’re going to need people around you and you have to be open to being able to, to have yourself focused in on things on occasion. It doesn’t mean you should stop viewing the big picture. You got to see the big picture, but you’ve got to see the details that need to go into play to make that big picture come about in your life.

Don’t think that what you’re seeing is the only angle on the truth, whether you’re seeing the details or the micro or whether you’re seeing the macro. You’re only seeing part of the picture.

You’re going to need other people to help out to see the rest of the picture.

Don’t ever forget that.

It’s essential to being able to grow as a person and to be able to grow your business faster. Just a quick little concept, very simple, straight-forward. We’re going to talk more about tomorrow.

Go and check out some of the other videos we have over at BrianJPombo.com/Media.

You could go to BrianJPombo.com and click on the media button.

You’ll get to see the other videos we have available as well as other podcasts and so forth that we have been putting out and we’ll continue to be putting out.

So love to hear from you and leave a comment down below. If you found this helpful, have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Would You Call Yourself A Leader?

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Would you call yourself a leader?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Live broadcast every day on Facebook live and then rebroadcasts over all the other social networks coming to you from Grants Pass Oregon. Today we’re talking about leadership and whether you consider yourself a leader that oftentimes we’re talking about business ownership, we’re talking about business leadership.

If you’re an executive in your business, one of the determining factors of what really makes a person appeal to what we’re talking about on a daily basis is we do tend to cover a lot of ideas of leadership.

So do you consider yourself a leader or not?

Oftentimes, if you have your own business and you’re doing your own thing, you don’t necessarily think of yourself as a leader, but I’m going to suggest that it’s probably what you should be doing. And the reason why this has come to me is a quote that I heard and I’m going to get to that in a minute, but first I wanted to remind you about DreamBizChat.com.

If you are a business owner in the self-reliance field, meaning you have products and services that help people to become more self reliant, perhaps you’re a business owner, perhaps you’re an executive in that field. You work in a company that helps people to become more self reliant from what you teach. Maybe you teach people how or you provide products which allow people to do home brewing or perhaps even beekeeping.

A number of things that are within the self-reliance field, ways that people can start their own hobbies and businesses off to the side. That’s what we’re talking about and it DreamBizChat.com I can show you how to take your business to the next level if you’re really willing to make it into that dream business, go check out the free video at DreamBizChat.com.

The link is in the description. If you happen to forget the name.

So I came across a quote from a friend of mine, his name’s Randy Haugen. He’s a very successful business person and this is the quote that he had leaders believe in the stuff they dream about into existence over a long period of time. I’m going to say that a little slower for you because there’s a lot there.

Leaders believe the stuff they dream about into existence over a long period of time.

The first part of that that I think is most important is the belief part that you have to believe something into existence and it’s the stuff that you dream about. It’s the stuff, not necessarily that you’re dreaming at night when you go to sleep.

It’s the stuff that in your mind you see happening, that it’s very clear to you that this is where you’re going with life and it seems as though this is the direction you’re taking things, but it’s the things that persist. The most important part of that whole quote is I think over a long period of time because it’s what persists in your mind.

It’s the things that don’t go away that are solid and they get more and more clear with time. Those are the things that will end up happening and those are the things you gotta watch for.

It’s not the shiny object of the moment.

It’s not the thing that you’re entranced with for this week. It’s the things that stick over time that you just can’t get rid of, that you just have a feeling things are going to go in that direction. That’s how you know that things are gonna happen for you. And I like how he uses the term leader in that sense because a true leader is a person that’s moving in that direction and they attract people to go along with them.

Not necessarily like followers, but maybe even other leaders. Maybe other people I envision that can see the same thing. We’ll follow along.

We’ll go along in the journey is something that it’s something to consider about yourself and also something to think about whether you’re a leader or not and whether you want to be a leader.

Do you think that you have what it takes to be able to move forward with the idea of your own, with maybe a piece of your business or a specific product or service within your business that you think can attract, for lack of a better word, of following, something to think about.

I love to hear what you think about that.

Leave a comment down below.

You can always go to BrianJPombo.com, See the other talks that we’ve had. We have these daily. I’d love to have you come back. I’d love to get a lot more back and forth with people. We do it on a couple of the social networks. We get a little bit more attention and get a little more back and forth going. So we’re on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook. You can also find all the archives on BrianJPombo.com so you have a great night.

We’ll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Exhausted?

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Exhausted?

Well I know I am.

I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Daily we come back to you with little tidbits, concepts, ideas, things that will help you be able to build your business a little faster, a little bigger. Today I’m going to talk about exhaustion and the things I look for when I feel exhausted.

So today I’m exhausted. I’m coming to you. No lie. I am tired.

I’m very tired, physically tired. And the reason why is because as those of you who have been watching, I’ve been in the process of moving here in the new office, it’s slowly starting to come together. Got a new bookshelf here. I’m going to have another one just like it. So we’ll be adding that to it. There’ll be not only books, but toys and movies and everything else that I can think of will be stacked on these bookshelves.

Just everything representing me, what I’m all about. I like to have a lot of that stuff around my office just in general to keep me kind of centered and remember who I am. But regardless of that big move. My whole family’s moving and so I could feel it in my body.

You start feeling it in your muscles and everything when you’re moving heavy objects everyday. And so that type of exhaustion, that’s easy to deal with. You know you can, you can survive it and get through it and you know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

The tough thing about exhaustion is when you don’t know exactly what it is.

And there’s a few things I always look for and some of this stuff’s complete common sense. I know you already know this, but the things that I’ve gotten good at looking for is one, how well have I been sleeping lately?

So the number one thing that I look at is, have I been sleeping consecutively?

Have I been sleeping enough?

Have I been asleep though sleep that I have been getting?

Have I been getting good sleep?

Secondly, I look at is how I’ve been eating and how much have I been eating?

How often have I been eating and have I been eating the things that I know are good or have I been eating a lot of stuff that I know is going to cause inflammation and everything and just make me feel like garbage. So these are things, if you haven’t dug into your own personal nutrition, as you get older, these things affect you a lot more.

And so you really gotta get good at looking at what you eat.

I never would’ve imagined that everything that I ate had such a dynamic effect on my mental exhaustion, my physical exhaustion.

And that then affects my spirit and how I feel about everything else. So these are the things to keep into effect. And that’s when you’re talking to all physical, but then you gotta look, you gotta step back and look at, okay, what?

Where am I at?

What am I doing on a daily basis?

What are my relationships like with the people I work with, with the people at home, or these things draining me?

You can say psychically or whatever.

Is there something deeper that’s draining and exhausting?

Am I going in the direction I want to be going?

Am I taking the time to smell the roses?

I might be able to hang out with the people that I love, my family, my friends. All these things can be causing this one thing that we call exhaustion. Being tired, be worn out. Keep that in mind the next time that you’re feeling tough.

Look at the physical things first.

Secondly, look at the deeper, the deeper things and where you’re going. If you’d like to talk to someone about how to get over exhaustion and how to take things to the next level with you and your business, I’m available quite oftentimes and we can see if we’d be a good fit.

Go to BrianJPombo.com watch some of my other videos or listen to some of my podcasts.

You can just click on the media link when you get there and if you find that you think we work out well, go and sign up for a strategy session with me.

Also, if you are in the self-reliance field, I’m gonna recommend you go over to DreamBizChat.com.

It’s specifically for business owners and executives in the self-reliance field to help you really take your business to the next level. Take it from where it’s at to really what you’d consider your ideal train business.

So this is Brian Pombo. Come back again tomorrow for another Brian J. Pombo Live.

You have a great night. Now get out there and let the magic happen.

Planning or Intuition?

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Planning or Intuition, which is better?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today we’re going to be talking about the difference between planning and using your gut, your intuition coming to you from Grants Pass Oregon. Sorry for the shaky camera work. I don’t have a tripod with me at the moment.

We’re in the process of moving, going through all this crazy stuff. It’s still got a couple more days of that left and so you can see the bags under my eyes and everything and of course I dropped something that I wanted to show you.

Let me show you what I dropped…DreamBizChat.com.

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It’s pretty self explanatory, has to do with the dream business transformation. If you’d like to take your business from where it’s at to where you want it to be, to where it’s really that dream business for you and you’re gonna want to check out DreamBizChat.com.

So let’s talk planning versus intuition.

A lot of people, this is an issue that always comes up eventually with people that I work with because as entrepreneurs, as business owners, as anybody that likes to really take charge of their life, it’s in our nature to trust our instincts and to really try and follow our intuition and I don’t think that’s a bad thing, but at the same time people think, well they’ll think that it’s completely antithetical.

It’s completely opposite from strategy, which if you take strategy and you look at all the synonyms that go along with it, it comes down to planning.

Strategy is just developing a plan in its most basic form, but is that all there is to it is it has to be either be a plan or intuition or can it be both? It can be both. It has to be both.

If you do nothing but just make plans, you’re going to be horribly disappointed in the long run and your plans aren’t going to come out right and you won’t have the right plans. If you’re not really taking heed of your own personal intuition.

At the same time, if you are running purely off intuition, it’s very difficult to get a business up and running. It’s very difficult to keep it going. It’s very difficult to systemize because there are parts of a business that need to be automated. There are parts of a business that need to run like a machine which has no intuition.

I don’t care what anyone says about artificial intelligence and where it’s going. It will never have the intuition that human beings have. We don’t know how to bestow that upon an inanimate object. We can’t even do it with animals. We’re not going to be able to do it with robots, with a computers. That’s my personal opinion.

Intuition’s a magical thing and it needs to, in terms of whether you should be focused on planning or intuition, it needs to be both, but one precedes the other. So intuition proceeds planning, good planning happens when you’re paying very close attention to that small still voice on the inside kind of given you the go ahead of which direction you need to be going.

You can put it together, all the plans in the world, they’re not going to go anywhere good if you aren’t listening to the right side of, of your mind, the right side that that’s, that’s kind of beyond us.

You know, that we don’t even, we don’t even really understand it completely great book on this Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a really interesting book.

If you’re, if you’re, especially if you’re more, on the intellectual side and you have a tough time fathoming what intuition’s all about. It kind of looks at some of the science behind the intuition, which also saves complete opposite of how we think of what intuition is.

But intuition definitely exists. And to ignore it or to put it down is a great disservice. But at the same time to completely ignore planning and understand the point of having strategy in your business will keep your business from growing. And I’ve worked with a lot of people through the years that have done this, that have trusted intuition solely and not realize that planning is there to do the bidding of intuition.

And as long as it doesn’t go the other way around, you’re in safe hands and things will go, things will go well for you. The best businesses tend to work that way. As soon as you take out one of those elements, either the planning or the intuition, you take those out, then you start getting into trouble.

So just a simple concept, simple idea. If you’d like to talk more about this in terms of how it affects you personally and your business life, go to BrianJPombo.com or if you’re in the self-reliance field, you’re definitely gonna want to check out DreamBizChat.com.

Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about more of these ethereal concepts, but there are things that directly relate back to your business. So come on back tomorrow. We’ll talk about then in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.