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Click here for SBBP6 Show Notes as a .pdf file Show Notes SBBP6 Celebrity Fran Harris of Fran Harris Enterprises • Business Explosion Expert • Fortune 100 business consultant • TV Personality • Speaker • Author How long have you been in business? Business Explosion Expert over last 10 years Coaching in personal, professional and business development in Fran Harris helping hundreds of people, one-on-one, conquer their fears to achieve living their BEST life Helping corporate executives and small business owners breakthrough their business challenges and/or self-defeating paradigms Developing high performance business teams TV personality for 20 years helping millions of clients Author – New book which launched September 2013 “No More Excuses, PERIOD!” Top business challenge - "Disco Ball Syndrome" How would you describe "Disco Ball Syndrome"? Think back to an ‘80s Dance Hall. Disco balls are those huge, completely overwhelming, shiny balls throwing off colors; a giant ball of distraction. You can’t help but see them wherever you are standing. I’m always having hundreds, even thousands, of ideas in a given day; ideas with deadlines attached to them. So many ideas is like a giant disco ball of distractions. The challenge is not just what you would like to do but what you actually need to do and what you can seriously get done. Then prioritize those things that need to get done. You have to ask yourself, is doing these twenty-four different things, getting me where I want to go. If not, then you need to step back and focus on something that will get you where you want to go. You need to seriously ask yourself, “What can I do with mastery and get the results I want”? Many will say the fortune is in the follow-up. I believe that the fortune is in the focus, the follow-up and the follow-through! Has this "Disco Ball Syndrome" ever threatened the survivability of your business? Probably. I will never conquer this but I continue to work at managing the Disco Ball of distracting ideas and possibilities. Even after stepping back and focusing, I still may want to pursue an additional idea; I know I can’t also do this myself; however, I can choose to proceed and hire someone else to do it. Are there any efforts you utilized that were NOT helpful or actually caused more problems than they help solve? There have been a couple of rare occasions over the last 21 years when someone I hired did not work out at the level which I needed them to operate. These instances did cause problems; however, Since I am also a ‘fast fire-er’, these situations did not last long. Is there anything else you would like to share on the process to conquer "Disco Ball Syndrome"? As a society we avoid the word weakness, believing that there is weakness in the word weakness; weakness in admitting you have weaknesses. You have to make a shift in your paradigm shift about that word. Honestly, this can be why individuals don’t succeed to the levels they could because they refuse to acknowledge their weaknesses. They will actually allow their business to fail because they are too afraid or ashamed to admit having a weakness. There is power is saying here are the areas where I am strong and here are the areas which I need to develop. You must acknowledge your weaknesses before you can develop yourself. There may be areas where you know you aren’t going to rise to the level you need; you can choose hire someone to take on that task, who IS strong in that area or someone who can “cover you” in that area. Don’t be afraid of your vulnerabilities, they can be seeds of strength for you. What was your worst marketing effort? In the early years of commercial Internet, 1993, I purchased a mailing list of women business owners. I sent out about 2,500 postcards but didn’t provide any way for them to register for my event. I just figured they would show up.

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