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Most of us compete to beat other people.

What if there was another way.

This is a video about Ben Comen the cross country runner which I gather was produced a few years ago

Ben inspires.

His lesson is more valuable than perseverance.
His lesson is more important that never quitting.

Ben shows us, that when you decide to compete against others, no one will help you.
But when you decide to compete against yourself...everyone will help you.

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Bad business habits are the mistakes you make when you aren’t paying attention because they come to you so naturally. Your business does them every day but invariably finds them hard to break.

These are things that have appeared, for all sorts of reasons ... some of them for unbelievable reasons.

50% of all business mergers, acquisitions and succession processes fail.

An additional 25% never make the promised return on investment.

In other words, 75% of all transitions aren't worth it.

Imagine walking into your banker and saying, "I've got a proposal that I need some funding for ... its got a 75% chance of failure."

Does your business or even your community or sporting group, have a planning process that is in place and is active?

If something happened to you or a key member of your business would a competant alternative be able to pick up and know where things were headed?

Why these questions and why now?

Over the past 4 weeks I have been contacted by 11 businesses seeking assitance in raising debt and equity funds or seeking to exit or sell their business.

Only one had an active planning system in place.

Business people all want to move ahead.

Moving ahead is what we all do, and mostly we just barge on, largely at full steam, sometimes we forge ahead in a more tentative manner. But, we are always seeking to move forward.

What if we get stuck?

During those times there is a new way forward that people are discovering

Thinking backwards is a way forward.

Sounds like madness eh?

Providing a guarantee is a way of assuring customers that what is promised is delivered.

Guarantees can take a number of forms ... regardless a guarantee is about honouring your word.