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One of the cruelest jokes played on mankind is instantly replayed around the globe on full display everyday in front of our faces.... yet only a few get it. One of the primary reasons why people fail, and you may not achieving your goals, is because you believe you have TIME, and YOU DON'T.

Time for excuses
Time for blame
Time for procrastination
Time to ignore proven systems
Time to ignore proven leadership
Time to debate stuff that won't be relevant 20yrs from now
Time to watch others pursue their dreams, and
Time to criticize them for doing so.
Time to not be accountable.
Time to secure your financial future
Time to protect your families

You don't.

Often times it's worthwhile to take on a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) not simply because of the rewards from achieving it, but because what it will make of you pursuing it.

Committing to excellence, being systemic, accountable, raising the bar... being different. These things may not make you popular or well liked in the short term. Most people want the rewards, absent the process. However, that's what the achievement of BIG things require. And over the course of time, as your SUCCESS eclipses others excuses, you'll become more respected, more deeply regarded, and more able to be of service to others.

I've really grown to love the Winter. A couple snowflakes hit the ground, and most of my competitors flee for cover. And that's when I absolutely Crush It. I'm starting to believe my spirit animal may be the polar bear.

Waka Fada! We are supposed to get excited because the United States Congress finally passed a resolution - after two centuries of slavery, hanging African Americans from trees, wanton violence, raping women and children, and pillaging the African Diaspora - stating as a society we don't believe in white supremacy.... in the 21rst century. Kick rocks.
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Thanks. Now stop shooting defenseless ebony people in streets like dogs. Pass a resolution to condemn that fu#%# shi#%%#t.
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#trayvonmartin #stopshootingus #stopprofilingus #liberty #justice

The desire for security, approval, and general laziness - the snarling trifecta - enslaves and pillages more people and their dreams than any other force on earth.

Overnight success is an oxymoron. Success is not a lottery ticket that you luckily happen upon. But rather a series of belief deposits made daily. It's accumulated earnings.

Small Plate - Success is a Process

Posted by JuJuan Buford, Entrepreneur & Writer @JSBUFORD

 

I sat down with a fledgling business owner of over 15 years for a short period in the residential/commercial cleaning industry, and at the conclusion of our initial sit down this is the advice I shared. 

 

It was a pleasure meeting with you yesterday. What follows is an abbreviated overview. A more comprehensive one will soon follow, and I will look to set a follow up appointment with you shortly.

 

A) I encourage you to identify an accountability partner or system to make sure you are hitting your KPIs. 

1. How many times daily are you inviting people to learn about your business

2. How many times are people receiving a presentation in person, offline, online, being educated about what you do

3. How many times are you creating happy clients

4. How many times are they referring people to you. 

 

A system does not need to be some grandiose expensive book, or super complex process. A book that I strongly encourage you to read, Pick Up the Fruit, Spit Out the Seed. "Tools of Titans" Tim Ferris. This is a simple system I've adopted https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lying-cheating-stealing-where-your-priorities-jujuan-buford/

 

We will speak A LOT more about this. 

 

B) LinkedIn is Where You MUST win, followed by Instagram. In preparation, the following must transpire.

1. I will help you with your profile, and some of your messaging. I'm not a social media expert or guru or personality. However, I secure clients on a regular basis via my social media presence on these two platforms. 

2. Acquire testimonies from each of your happy customers. Have them draft them, you type them up, laminate them, and create an electronic copy. And type up a series of positive credibility statements, and have the business owners endorse each copy.

3. At some point, acquire video testimonies (this comes later)

 

C) No more google decisions. I'm going to refer you to a service that will insure your documents are reviewed moving forward.

 

D) No more bad financial decisions; compromising your LLC status. I'm going to refer you to a service (the same service as (C)) to help you properly account for your revenues, profits, and income moving forward. 

 

E) Prospecting / Building Your List

1. Produce a lists of restaurants, salons, retail clothing stores, etc. No publicly traded companies. Privately held businesses. 

2. Make a list of contractors to subcontract with. They always, always are short on good, reliable professionals. Cover your behind, by insuring that you get as much of money upfront as possible, and make sure you have airtight agreements. Refer to (C). 

 

F) Entrepreneurship is Competition. 

1. I want you to be unapologetic about shopping your competition. You're looking for what they are not good at. I want you to see what they are good at, and undercut them on price maliciously. Still earn enough money to cover your income needs, and the expenses of this business. 

 

G) Give yourself regularly scheduled business hours. 

1. Exercise the same fidelity, earnest, honest work ethic that you exhibit at the job in your business. 

2. Arrive on time for your business. 

3. Go in sick and tired for your business.

4. Work your business like a part-time job that you really need, until it pays you like a business. 

 

REMEMBER, Snowflakes turn into Snowballs. Don't try to execute all of this on your own. Or all at the same time. Success requires that you fall in love with process. You eat a hippo, one bite at a time. 

 

I CELEBRATE YOUR SUCCESS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

#entepreneurshipisempowerment

 

 

 

JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, a successful entrepreneur, activist, writer, and public speaker dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.

Follow him online here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jujuan-buford-25997a2a
Twitter: @JSBUFORD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchjsbuford/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/catchjsbuford/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzcj_-naDGsPdU_JjnlyNpsfv4Y1RvAW

Fall in Love with the Grind

Posted by JuJuan Buford, Entrepreneur & Writer @JSBUFORD

 

I'm a poet, an activist, deep down in my bones. I believe and enjoy vision planning. I ardently believe in the import of living a purpose driven life, being passionate, living your truth, and changing the world. I don't mind watching and listening to other people burn, be inspired by others' artistry.

However, I want you to get just as excited about the grind. Get just as excited about making the calls, setting the appointments, creating happy clients, acquiring the referrals, pounding the pavement offline and online. Get on amped, on 10, jacked out your mind, hype about execution. 

Become just as excited about becoming more valuable intellectually, materially, physically, spiritually, emotionally... become more excited by the increase of your net worth, as opposed to what you are driving or your attire. Paying it forward.

#entrepreneurshipisempowerment

 

JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, a successful entrepreneur, activist, writer, and public speaker dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.

Follow him online here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jujuan-buford-25997a2a
Twitter: @JSBUFORD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchjsbuford/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/catchjsbuford/

 

 

World of Mouth - January 10, 2019 - John Johnson

Posted by JuJuan Buford, Entrepreneur & Writer @JSBUFORD

 

"WHAT CAN I DO,

WITH WHAT I HAVE,

TO GET WHAT I WANT?"

*John Johnson

 

(UNSTOPPABLE by Cynthia Kersey)

 

 

 

JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, a successful entrepreneur, activist, writer, and public speaker dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.

Follow him online here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jujuan-buford-25997a2a
Twitter: @JSBUFORD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchjsbuford/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/catchjsbuford/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzcj_-naDGsPdU_JjnlyNpsfv4Y1RvAW

Want to Add Stickiness to Your Business?

Posted by JuJuan Buford, Entrepreneur & Writer @JSBUFORD

 

GaryVee shares some incredible insights as usual. I particularly found his statements regarding how to create stickiness in your business invaluable. So many (including me) often spend so much time reverse engineering our businesses to meet our purposes.

However, retaining good partners / talent (the most valuable asset of any business) and building/scaling is just as much about reverse engineering the desires of the people who have chosen to be a part of or have agency in the organization you're building.

 

#garyvee #scaling #entrepreneurship #adapt

 

 

JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, a successful entrepreneur, activist, writer, and public speaker dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.

Follow him online here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jujuan-buford-25997a2a
Twitter: @JSBUFORD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchjsbuford/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/catchjsbuford/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzcj_-naDGsPdU_JjnlyNpsfv4Y1RvAW

Cynthia Kersey's UNSTOPPABLE was not a book I planned to read, however it has officially broke into my top 20. I used to read 10 pages a day, and now I read an hour a day, as the results have been miraculous (all sparked by this book). I'm looking forward to reading 2 hours a day.

How to Overcome the Fear of Setting Goals

Posted by JuJuan Buford, Entrepreneur & Writer @JSBUFORD

It is not uncommon for individuals to express trepidation or avoid goal setting altogether. The primary issue is most of us were never taught that setting goals is a skilled trade. No different than learning fencing, becoming a surgeon, or a violinist. People avoid the process more often than not because they fear failure, and don’t have a road map. Unfortunately, one of the most important life skills, is not given enough attention academically.

However, just like the process of learning any worthwhile skill, success is found in failing forward, multiple times. Athletes miss the mark frequently. Doctors lose patients. Musicians have bad days. However, the constant practitioners simply improve over time.

It doesn’t have to be complex or rocket science, unless you just feel the need to sell a lot books. Just kidding, but not really. Here’s a simplified approach.

1. Define your win. What are your desired results. Write it out.
2. Conduct a self inventory, and be honest. What skills, associations, and learned knowledge do you need to acquire?
3. Take the first step, immediately. You win a foot race by simply putting one foot in front of the other, faster than the next person. In this case, your opponent is time, and your tools are your habits. Start.

Compare your goal setting process, to something akin to launching a rocket into outer space. The rocket is going to go off course an innumerable number of times. However, directions are repeatedly sent to the rocket (adjustments) to insure it reaches its destination. The learning is in the adjustments. Exercise unabashed, uncompromising fidelity to the process, and your goals will materialize.

JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, a successful entrepreneur, activist, writer, and public speaker dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.

Follow him online here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jujuan-buford-25997a2a
Twitter: @JSBUFORD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchjsbuford/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/catchjsbuford/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzcj_-naDGsPdU_JjnlyNpsfv4Y1RvAW

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." - Ethiopian proverb

For most of us changing a habit or achieving a goal by spinning 180 degrees on a dime is not reasonable. Nor do you have to. 1% improvement is all you need.

If you choose 2 or 3 areas of your life at the most, and work on getting 1% better a day by the end of the year you'll be 365% better! 1% improvement a week, and you'll be 50% better! Improving by 50% is a dramatic improvement in any endeavor you may be involved in.

#snowflakesturnintosnowballs #onepercent #change #goalsetting