Notes

Small Business Hiring Tips: Their Likes SHOULD BE Your Dislikes
In the first 1990s, I was an Insurance agent in St. Bernard Parish. (A Louisiana Parish adjacent to the east side of Orleans Parish) I was not an agent more than four or five years. I vividly remember that day whereby we had a visiting agent named Jay Butler come in and speak to our business group. Jay Butler had recently retired. He was from the California area if my memory serves me correctly. His passionate purpose was to travel across the country discussing some interesting ideas and giving back again to his Insurance Business "family". Jay knew that he was in his final months fighting pancreatic cancer. Because he knew his time was limited, he actually worked 7 days a week graciously meeting with clients on Saturdays, Sundays or anytime.

Dislikes/Likes

Take out a piece of paper and draw a line down the center of the page. On the left side of the page start listing all the things that you don't like to do in your present job. So, take some time, maybe pause from reading forward, and think of all the items that you do not like to do and write them down.

Now after really working hard on listing the "DISLIKES", now turn your focus to the right side of the page. Your "LIKES". Vertically write down all the aspects of your job or your career that you really do enjoy and prefer to do. Maybe even love to do.

Although this idea's simple, it is profound. Some of you will not take this exercise seriously enough because you will be quickly looking for the easy answer. But, for this to be "the answer", it must be more complicated.

The Answer

1. Every day, once you wake up, you have to spend your time concentrating on only doing the things you like to do. Resolve and commit to hiring and developing a team of individuals that their strengths will be the things that you don't like to do, and let them take action. Did you really catch that last statement?

2. You cannot amass major income without first mastering the ability to delegate. But you have to delegate your DISLIKES to associates that are strong for the reason that area. Their LIKES must be your DISLIKES.

3. You will constantly need to scout and recruit new talent. You do not do that only once a year, as you never know once you will eventually lose a team member. Things happen, people get jobs in different locations, sickness, health issues, death, accidents. Many perils in life can occur, so you must continue to look for people who would be an asset to your team. But what you cannot do is continue to fool yourself and live under the illusion that you will find enough time to be strong in all the areas that you're weak.

4. T here is a man by the name of Dan Sullivan. He's the co-owner with his wife in their company, "The Strategic Coach". And one of Dan Sullivan's philosophies is simply this: If you spend your entire life concentrating on your weaknesses, what you're going to have at the end of your life is a long set of strong weaknesses, but they're still likely to be weaknesses. You're hard-wired for success. However, you need to determine what it really is that you're good at and focus the primary portion of your energy on that.

The Jay Butler story is a superb story about giving back to us in his last year of life, when he knew he was terminally ill. The ONE GOOD NOTION that I'll remember is: focus on the things you do well and delegate the rest to others.

Marvin is really a left-handed, right-brained, intense, fun-loving, full blooded Cajun Man. He was an insurance professional for 18 years in St. Bernard Parish, a town of 70,000 people. All 27,000 homes were damaged in Hurricane Katrina. His life could not be the same and he's all of the better for this. Marvin focuses NOT on Surviving the STORM, but learning how to DANCE in the rain. http://www.marvinleblanc.com
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