Tiny Changes Translate Into Success in All Niches, Train Others to Respect Your Time

Published: Sat, 10/27/18


I'm working really hard today. Tomorrow I begin my fiction week for that business branch, so I have a lot to wrap up before I engage in that commitment. Scalett's going to a birthday party tonight, so I'm taking her there and then she's spending the night and heading to a haunted house. I'm still too scared to go in those (even the silly ones) and I'm 48. LOL

I have a lesson for you today, but it's below this notice:

Tiny Changes Translate Into Success in All Niches

No matter what it is I want to change, I have a hard time doing it all at once. I have to dip my toe in and make small changes until I level up and do something fully.  I remember when my son Dylan was helping me start the weight loss journey, he said, "Ask yourself if you did better than the day before." That was ALL I had to do. A small change. No major turmoil. 

I love Justin Popovic's take on it - I watched the video he has on his sales letter for his PLR sale on this topic and he does a GREAT job explaining how to encourage your followers in ANY niche to make tiny changes and succeed with whatever it is you're leading them to do. 

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Train Others (Family, Friends and Customers) to Respect Your Time

The other day I told you about a lesson I picked up from Randi Zuckerberg in an entrepreneurial magazine. 

Well she offered up another tip I thought I'd share specifically because many of you contact me with this very problem!

It's about getting people to respect your time when you're trying to build a business. In the past, I've advised you to project an air of seriousness so that others will take you seriously. 

She goes one step further. She addresses the distractions by others, interruptions and people just scoffing at your efforts in general. 

What she advises you to do is stop thinking you have to jump at everyone's beck and call immediately - whether it's people in your personal life or professional life. 

I JUST had this talk with a couple of you whose would-be clients were scheduling things and flaking out on them. This happens to my son all the time, too. People schedule training and 5 minutes beforehand, cancel on him because they slept in or forgot or whatever. 

We like to gripe about professionals charging us for no shows, like a doctor's office, but we should envy their style! They're forcing you to respect their time (even if they don't show up on time for us). 

What Randi said really hit home when she stated: "You set their expectations - don't let them set expectations of you."

Wow! That got me. You're so in control of this situation if you want to be. Is it uncomfortable sometimes setting those boundaries? YES! 

But if you're serious about being an entrepreneur, it's part of the job description. 

Start telling people (like your family or friends) that you're in the middle of something and will get back to them in awhile. Don't let people walk all over you. If clients no show? Maybe give them a warning shot the first time, and then charge them for your time the second. Or cut them loose. 

Being exclusive and in demand and hard to come by is more attractive to customers than someone who never has a problem fitting them in because obviously, they're not busy (which means they're not in demand). It's NOT a case of, "Oh, he or she is so nice and accommodating." 

Would you keep going on a blind date if the person stood you up five times in a row?

No. 

So have some respect for yourself and teach others to have it for you, too. 

Tiff ;)

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