How bad does it have to get before you do something about it??That is a saying I remember from one of the 1970’s self help gurus… Colin Hayes was his name and I recall visiting his office which was a rotunda shaped thatched room with a dirt floor, in the hills of Kalamunda where some delightful “mixed up” beauties hung on his every word. If he wasn’t so screwed up I could have wanted to be him.
He was a chain smoking foul mouthed egomaniac who had a cult like following and he was asking me for marketing advice.
His favourite saying was:
How bad does it have to get before you do something about it, and how good does it get before you stuff it up.
I think he was somewhere in the middle at the time.
Well mid December 2014 was a low point for me… everything I had been doing had stopped working… where I would get 400 people a month to my seminars, I was getting 20 bookings and therefore having to cancel, refunding and actually losing money.
The social media consulting business also ground to a halt… a six figure income evaporated overnight - one client said it wasn’t working, one said it was working too well and they needed a rest and for a third client, i quit as we weren’t happy with the results we were getting for them.
The low point was when, because of the lack of cashflow, I had to ask for a small loan to get me through… and I hadn’t done that for 20 years!
How bad does it have to get before you do something about it, and how good does it get before you stuff it up.
I think he was somewhere in the middle at the time.
Well mid December 2014 was a low point for me… everything I had been doing had stopped working… where I would get 400 people a month to my seminars, I was getting 20 bookings and therefore having to cancel, refunding and actually losing money.
The social media consulting business also ground to a halt… a six figure income evaporated overnight - one client said it wasn’t working, one said it was working too well and they needed a rest and for a third client, i quit as we weren’t happy with the results we were getting for them.
The low point was when, because of the lack of cashflow, I had to ask for a small loan to get me through… and I hadn’t done that for 20 years!
So, I decided to try everything at once and see what worked… and a couple of our seminars gained immediate traction, numbers shot back to 400 a month “for some titles”, some didn’t work and I refunded the fees, and basically I was “back in the game.”
It is the end of my first 90 segment of my 100 “90 day plan” plan for the next 25 years… and I can share with you that much progress has been made, many debts paid, and a few $$$’s are in the bank account to pave the way for my second “90 day plan” of the 100 90 day journey to 88.
So, I know tomorrow is April 1st, 2015 but it doesn’t seem like it will be April’s Fool.
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