Change Creates Opportunity

A few changes here and there never hurt anyone. Change keeps things fresh and new. Change for me started with an innocent comment.

At a recent presentation I was told "you don't look like your internet picture." I wasn't sure how to interpret the comment. Perhaps the stress of the past few weeks was showing on my face. Guess it was time to do some changes. I went out and got a drastic haircut.

I told my hair stylist it was time for a change and gave her free rein with the scissors. The next comment I received went like this, "Wow! Zelda, you look ten years younger."

Don't get caught in a rut. Mix things up in life. Do you travel to work each day using the same route? Do you eat out at the same restaurants? Make the same dinner week after week? Try attending a new business or social club, just to meet new people and contacts. Mixing things up a little can create change and open doors for great things to happen.

Change is growth and growth offers opportunity. Change means one door closes and others are opening. Are you ready to leave the past behind and start a new venture? Sometimes we begin on one path and unexpected twists and turns lead you down a totally different path than the one you set out taking. There are times the path you are led down are a much better path to follow.

My friend started a small gift basket business many years ago. She started selling gift baskets when the industry was in its infancy. She focused on selling to corporate clients. Soon those clients began to ask if she would include their promotional products that contain the company logo. She began to include their pens, coffee mugs and other personalized products. Recognizing there was an industry devoted entirely to promotional products she began to sell the promotional products to her customers and that opened a new revenue stream for her gift basket business.

There came a point in her business venture where the profits of selling promotional logo products was the bigger money maker and not the original gift basket. Once she realized this, she changed the structure of the business. The more profitable path was promotional products and thus she changed the marketing and soon gift basket sells got smaller and smaller while the logo product sells grew enormously.

During this tight economy look at what you are doing. Are there other products that complement what you are already doing. Explore other paths to follow. Look for new ways to do what you are already doing. Perhaps you are seeking a better job, better health, a way to make some investments. Look at all the possibilities and explore the opportunities. You never know where those paths may lead. Don't be afraid to take a leap of faith. As long as your moving forward the road will get you where you want to go and the road just might be better than the one you started traveling.

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