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Manufacturing Your Dream Life

Written on January 4, 2012 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Personal Growth

BIGG success is life on your own terms. It’s about taking control to build the life of your dreams.

Your life is your enterprise. And you’re not the brand manager of this amazing institution.

You’re not just the CEO either. You’re the entrepreneur in charge. You own it.

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You can think about this enterprise – your life – like a manufacturing business. As a manufacturer, you carry three kinds of inventory:

Raw Materials
Your raw materials are your God-given talent, your experiences, your ideas, and more.

You bring these commodities together to create a product. While we use the term “commodities”, you should realize that your commodities are unique to you.

Work-in-process
Raw materials have value in and of themselves. However, they can be transformed into something of greater worth.

You have your natural talent. But that alone is unlikely to take you to the top. It takes work to develop your talent to its fullest.

You have your experiences. You’ve formed perceptions based on your experiences. You have to be careful here – your perceptions can increase or decrease the value of the finished product.

You have to be objective about the subjective! You have ideas. But ideas aren’t enough. As ideas go down the assembly line, your goal is to turn them into an opportunity.

Finished goods
As your ideas line up with an opportunity, a concept develops. You are able to apply your fully developed talents to this concept. You’re ready to show the world your finished product.

But you’re not through yet. You’ve manufactured the product. Now you have to sell it.

But here’s the best part – you CAN sell it. You WILL sell it.

Because it’s unique.
There’s no other product just like it in the whole world.
It’s completely custom.
It’s the secret to building your dream life.
That’s BIGG success!

Need help manufacturing your dream life? Maybe we can help.

Thanks for checking in with us today. Until next time, here’s to your BIGG success!

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What’s Hot in 2009: Threats

Written on January 7, 2009 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Business, Life Planning

maple_leaf_foods_logo This week on The Bigg Success Show, we’re taking a look at opportunities and threats in 2009. Today, we continue the five-part series by looking at threats.

We recently posted an article where we shared seven threats facing us in 2009. We’ll discuss two of them today.

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Downturn expected to hit higher and harder

The first threat is the recession. It is now expected to be deeper, longer, and different than any other downturn that we’ve witnessed in our lifetimes. As with any recession, layoffs will be part of the mix.

In the past, layoffs have occurred mostly at the lower end of the career spectrum. What makes this recession different, and the reason we feel it’s important to emphasize this to the members of our community, is that this recession is expected to hit hardest at the upper end.

It was recently suggested in an article on Harvard’s site that this recession be dubbed “The Great Disruption.” It certainly has been disruptive, hasn’t it? It appears that volatility is something we need to get used to going forward.

Moving out is moving up

Another important threat is continued outsourcing. This is also something that we feel may disproportionately affect the people in our community in the coming year.

We’ve already witnessed it, but jobs outside manufacturing are now at risk. It was interesting to see manufacturing start coming back onshore as the price of fuel rose. With the digital revolution, the cost of moving information around the world costs practically nothing. So white-collar jobs may be the most at risk now.

We’ve seen that already with lower skill jobs. Now it seems that some higher level careers may also be at risk. We see two factors in jobs that are safe:

an on-site presence is necessary to perform the work
face-to-face contact produces better results

The article also mentions a great resource that describes occupations that are and aren’t likely to be moved offshore as well as the other five threats. Check it out!

We like to think positively, but it’s also important to realistically assess those impediments to achieving our goals. We call that positively real thinking … that’s what it takes to succeed bigg!

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We’re really grateful that you took time out of your day to read our post today. Join us next time when we look at some questions which will help you tie the opportunities and threats to the right career or business for you. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!

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