Learn to Set Your Own Rules

I'm sure you've heard from various people such as Robert Kiyosaki say by setting your own rules, You’ll Win The Game of Small Business Ownership

With winning in any game, you have to know the rules first, right? You play by the rules, improve your performance and hopefully come out on top as the winner. Although this might be true for a simple board game or sports, in the game of business ownership this isn't necessarily true.

Business Ownership is the only game in life where YOU can set the rules. As a matter of fact, if you’ve structured your business on other people’s rules – you’re bound to fall far short of your full potential.

Why will you fail?
Because you are using their strengths to run Your business, instead of figuring out what your strengths are and using them to your own potential successfully. The positions you might not consider as your strengths are the types of positions you should outsource. You might be wasting your time doing meaningless tasks that you should be outsourcing instead.

Too many business owners think just because companies within their industry have always done things a certain way, that’s the way they have to run their company. Unfortunately that type of approach will only get you the same results other men and women in your industry are getting – average, or below average results. You can break the conventional paradigm of any industry by proving it can be done.

Why getting motivated to set your own rules is critical

My rules allowed me to break free from the constraints that so many business owners in that industry are still trapped by.

How to make the shift and start setting your own rules

The shift you need to make is in your mind, in your thinking about what it is you do – right now where you are at in your business and life.

Just look around at what the majority of other business owners are doing in your industry.

· How different are your competitors from each other?

· How different are you from your competitors?

· Are you offering essentially the same services/products to the same market and experiencing the same financial rewards and constraints as everyone else in your industry?

If you don’t like your answers to these questions, then now’s time to make a change.

Winning the game of business ownership, playing by your own rules takes a comprehensive strategy. But you can start setting your own rules by answering three simple questions:

1. What could your company provide that your competitors do not, cannot do, or would not to do – even if they thought of it first?

2. What’s considered “impossible” by the majority of people in your industry? How could you provide that service/product/solution IF it were really not impossible?

3. What are consumers regularly complaining about in your industry? How can you provide solutions to their complaints?

Taking action now!

Take your answers to these three starter questions and begin to mold your small business to fit your needs. You can boost your profits and your personal fulfillment at the same time – starting by setting the rules of your own game.

When you set your own rules in this manner, you will take a commanding lead in your industry, niche, or profession. You’ll be setting the rules around what consumers want instead of what company in your industry find to be “the norm.” As in a recent episode of The Apprentice, the team that won, was the team that listened to their target market!

They helped to design great clothing for people who were taylor made for the clothing they were selling. Well guess, they earned a designer shopping spree trip.

When you help enough other people get what they want, you’ll get more of what you want!

Here's to getting what you want.

JEN