Know What YOU Do

Questions are source of knowledge. Everything we questioned have been processed, until we got the answers we are looking for. These answers will then lead to action. You can’t enrich your knowledge if you don’t ask and experience if you don’t do. Things we do proofs what we know. A friend once said, “If you are not proficient in what you are doing, you will be overwhelmed and guarantee failure”.

What is the easiest part of your business, and HOW takes home the price. This is where you really need to know what you are doing. Let’s put the HOW into two different scenarios. You want to accomplish one of your business objectives – providing the best services at affordable price – and you are considering what would happen. This objective is stable, and we have probably consider them and more in the business plan. That is great in theory, but the best question is how?

How will the business accomplish this? Will it involve cutting prices on equipment, or do you have to use less resources? How will you use these resources to achieve your goals? How will you achieve this and still gains the necessary monetary resources to keep operating the business? These questions can generate a lot of different perspectives. And nobody can tell you exactly how to do the things you want to do, but provide insight about what could work.

A second scenario is where we set a stable goal, and have consulted a prospect that could facilitate the goal. When the company sent someone to interact with us, it happens to be someone we have a bad history with, which puts us on an ambiguous path. Luckily for us the person could differentiate his professional objectives from his personal feelings.

The best question is how will you operate then? Your strategy might be dynamic, and you need to accomplish the objective, despite the fact that you are on unsecure ground or in ambiguous level. Knowing what you are doing give you power over it, and vice versa as the case may be. For you to know what you are doing, consider how you will accomplish what you are doing because “what” is traditionally broad.

This simplifies how you can be extremely organize, because things are done in sequence for a reason. And as we know even though we know what we are doing, we can still be overwhelmed if we are not organized. The only way to organize is to divide the big pictures into little pieces. These pieces will then be tackled one after the other in specific sequence that simplifies the overall process.