Entrepreneurship

16 Questions which will help you come up with a business idea

Business, Entrepreneurship
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Question: I want to build a business but WHAT business? 🤨
Here are 16 questions that will help you to come up with “something” that will give value to people’s lives and … money to you!
My advice is: Don’t start a business just to make money!

The money will not be enough to motivate you.

I failed ALL the times when I pursued an idea just for the money.

Do you know what motivates people? A purpose higher than themselves, appreciation from others, impact, something that matters, something that will stay, curiosity, genuine interest in a subject, the fun of the creation process!

Forget the “million bucks” ideas and slow down for a bit.

Make yourself a cup of tea. 🍵

Get a notebook and a pen and ask yourself: Can you think of …..
  1. Something you’re passionate about?
  2. Something that’s interesting to you?
  3. Something you want to explore more in your life?
  4. Something you want to learn more about even if you’re not an expert at?
  5. Something you’re curious about?
  6. Something you can help people with?
  7. Something you can teach people?
  8. Something that has made your life easier that could also make other people’s lives easier?
  9. Something that could make your life easier that could also make other people’s lives easier?
  10. Something, a thing that would be nice to have?
  11. Something you’ve found the solution to that you’re now ready to share with the world?
  12. Something you’re “dying” to solve for yourself first?
  13. Something that you find easy but others don’t?
  14. Something tough you went through that others are going through now?
  15. Something that’s worth pursuing no matter how impossible it might sound?
  16. Something that could change the world?
If you slow down and see what has worked for you in your life, you will come up with ideas.

The questions above will tap into your abundantly creative mind.

Don’t listen to others, don’t Google “passive income”. Start with paper and pen. Start with fresh, new thought!
And the most powerful question:

If you had a few people in a room and a few hours before you left this world forever, what would you teach them from your life and experiences? What would you like to leave behind for them?
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I’m blessed to be coaching people like Yazan

Business, Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Me Interviewing awesome people, Relationships

I’m blessed to be coaching people like Yazan.

He launched his online business a few months ago and he just got his first big client. A dream client!

It took him 4 months to build a relationship with his client and get their trust.

We worked on building a serving mindset, on giving unconditional value, on forgetting ourselves and our wants while being professional.

Our work was a meditation into the world of Yazan’s client. This is what it was.

We came up with outside the box ideas! We turned every stone upside down to find solutions and we did!

Yazan forgot that he needed to get clients ASAP. We only focused on solving the riddle for his potential client.

Building a business becomes easy when you forget yourself and focus only on your client’s problem.

I remember Yazan coming back worried one day… “I don’t know what’s going on. She is not responsive any more.”

“Keep providing value”, I said. “She’s just busy with the wrong things. Bring her attention to what matters, to what she really needs to do for her business. You’re here to show her the way, to lead her.”

And this is what Yazan did. He took action. He owned the game.

And one day the dream client called Yazan and asked him: “When are we going to start then?”🎉🎉🎉

Success.

Exciting times. I’m just so proud of my people. So passionate about my people.

These are my lovely, brilliant and powerful people.

What is your role then, Angelos?

I’m there for them to remind them how brilliant they are.

I’m there for them to kill any self-limiting thoughts that may interrupt their creative work.

I’m just there for them.

And they can feel I’m there for them.

And they keep going.

And they get what they deserve.

To all the people who let me be there for them while they’re climbing their mountains,

Angelos ❤️

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How to Approach Clients for your Business

Business, Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Mindset

I just got off the phone with a coaching client of mine who’s launching his own business.

He asked me: “𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨?”.

He had been overthinking this question in his head.

Is it better to email them first and call them later? Or maybe visit them? How do you start the conversation? Is cold-calling still effective? Or cold-emailing is better? And what’s the best answer if the say x? And if they say y, what do you say next?

I asked my client a rhetorical question:

– Do you genuinely want to help your clients and serve them from your heart?

– Yes, I do.

– Then, you know very well how to approach them. You don’t need me to tell you. You just approach them. You say hello and you build a relationship with them. You offer a solution to their problem. You relax. You listen to them carefully and you serve them.

People who overthink the question “How do I approach clients?” usually do so because they’re in a war with their potential clients. It’s all about persuasion theory, selling, closing, and manipulation.

People who are in service mode, ie. in peace mode, approach their clients like a dove with an olive branch (an ancient symbol of peace).

A dove with an olive branch is on a mission to serve. It’s there to make the first step and give first.

It’s vulnerable, humble.

But also strong and confident because it’s bringing peace.

And if your potential clients are not ready yet to welcome the dove in their hands, they will always remember that you were a dove with an olive branch.

And if they didn’t see straight away that you were a dove,
you can fly back to them (follow-up, or reach out later)
as many times as you want as soon as you’re bringing an olive branch (value, service).

dove with olive branch

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Achieving a goal should be like a bubble rising up to the surface

Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Mindset

GOALS – Working towards a goal should feel like a bubble coming up to the surface.

Slowly. Steadily. Effortlessly. Gracefully.

You can’t achieve a goal if your whole identity is invested in a future expectation of yourself. Forcing the bubble to go up faster will only break the bubble and sabotage your entire mission.

When you are unattached, you know in the core of your being that you are sufficient without any changes, additions, or deletions. You allow the object of your desire to come to you without any force, pressure, or control. Unattachment means that it is acceptable for the goal to manifest, and it is equally okay for the bubble to split into hundreds of little bubbles before reaching the surface. Unattachment means that you’re living in the present while working towards your goal.

You can be free, sufficient and fulfilled without the manifestation of the goal. And it’s then when the goal manifests. It’s a paradox, isn’t it? The paradox of wanting something too much and not wanting it simultaneously. And it’s the role of a coach to make sure you’re always at the right spot of wanting it and not wanting it enough.

Do you have a big goal you want to achieve?

Let’s work together and see the bubble reach the surface.

Angelos

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Head down for one year!

Business, Entrepreneurship, Habits, Mindset
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What if you worked on your dream every day for one year without lifting your head up to see if it’s working?

But how do I know I’m doing the right thing? Well, you know what the right thing is. You have a tremendously powerful intuition as to what the good and meaningful work is. And just because you don’t lift your head up every day to see a miracle, a miracle happens when you save that energy that otherwise would go wasted on expectation!

Expectation is friction!

Expectation is interruption!

Expectation is frustration!

Think about it. Imagine. Visualise it. One year creating. No looking up.

Every day being a win no matter what! Just you and your meaningful work. No expectation. What can you see? How does it feel?

Kindness and smiles,

Angelos

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Learning myths and the reality

Book suggestions, Effective Learning, Entrepreneurship

LEARNING MYTHS and … the reality!

I’m currently reading Kelly Palmer‘s new book Expertise Economy. Pay attention, please!

MYTH 1 – People use only 10% of their brains.
REALITY 1 – You use almost the entire capacity of your brain.

MYTH 2 – People are either right-brain thinkers or left-brain thinkers.
REALITY 2 – The left and right parts of the brain do not function completely separately and learning has nothing to do with the hemispheres of your brain.

MYTH 3 – People have an optimal channel, visual, auditory, etc. through which they learn.
REALITY 3 – People use as many channels to learn as they can access. Learning becomes more effective when all the senses are combined into the learning experience.

MYTH 4 – There are certain windows of learning and when these windows have closed, there is no chance of them being reopened again.
REALITY 4 – People can learn new things at any age! The neuroplasticity of our brain allows us to learn new things and build new skills all throughout our lives.

BOOK here – https://amzn.to/2JrP4sQ

the expertise economy

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I’m learning from this man!

Business, Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration

I’m learning from this man so much every single day working next to him.

He is the one who taught me what relationship means, not just in business, but in life.

The word relationship doesn’t need any adjectives next to it such as deep, strong, meaningful, etc. The word relationship is what it is.

I will not try to give any definition of the word relationship because any definition wouldn’t be enough to explain the word.

Let me give you a few examples instead.

A father or mother has a relationship with their son.

A business owner has a relationship with his client.

A coach has a relationship with the coachee.

It’s the same relationship.

What’s relationship for you?

Love, Angelos

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You’re only two words to success! – “What if”

Business, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Mindset

How many times do you have this internal conversation with yourself?

It’s not gonna work…
Let’s try this for the beginning…
They will not answer…
They will not even look at my application…
I should start small, then target those…
I’m not there yet…

WHAT IF it works?

WHAT IF they answer?

WHAT IF you start big?

WHAT IF you’re there already???

Don’t land yourself down! Let life land you instead if that’s your destiny!

You just keep whatif-ing!

One by Tim Ferriss: It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine per cent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

Everybody is after the small fish and the big fish are feeling lonely because no one is ready yet to catch them!! #lonelybigfish #poorbigfish 🙂

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