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How to grow your business despite the holidays

Uh oh. Another obligatory holiday post. Or is it?

As resident Shrink for Entrepreneurs, I’m here to serve up some piping hot insight on how to thrive during this chaotic time of year… while still finding time to do what’s important: Be with loved ones.

No matter your industry, the holidays mess it up. If you’re rocking a business-to-consumer business model, you probably have sales and pre-christmas insanity on your hands. If you run a business-to-business operation, all your sales leads are about to go as cold as ice. No one’s staff are going to have their head in the game and those christmas parties will take their toll on everyone.

I’m announcing something totally new and badass, that’ll give you the crash course you need to make this your best season yet. 

Are you going to drop all the balls you have in the air because it’s the holidays?

No, you’re not. If I know one thing about entrepreneurs, it’s that iPhones have made checking email on turkey day even easier than ever before.

You’re probably telling yourself you’re going to find “balance”. You’ll spend quality time with family of course. You’ll make room for that time by setting yourself ridiculous deadlines. Just like last year.

And just like last year you’ll blow those deadlines, drop a few balls, keep a few important ones and generally just make it through the silly season. Your business may not be too much worse off for it, but it certainly won’t be better.

Until this year.

Because now it’s your chance to change all that.

See, there’s one thing the holidays have an abundance of: Psychological spare time.

You may not have hours and hours to lay around and do nothing (or you might – in which case you probably should be helping with the dishes) but you do have time to think. While you’re running errands. While you’re, as CEO, sitting in your office noticing how all your suppliers seem to be on vacation. Hell, even while you’re washing dishes!

When you’re not really supposed to be doing anything, it becomes really easy to think.

Some of my most successful clients do their best business planning while they’re running – you should see the post-workout emails I get!

When you occupy yourself with busy work, your brain gets a chance to engage those parts of it that usually lay dormant. In other words, the holidays are the best time imaginable for thinking strategically about business growth and making plans for changing the world.

You could be stuffing a turkey, letting your eyes rest on that football game, decorating a tree or just doing nothing at all…. while simultaneously doing the most high impact, useful work possible. It’s multitasking that everyone can manage. Even guys.

S’called “thinking”. And I’m encouraging you to take this annual opportunity to do a lot of it. Your business runs on the gasoline of your mind, so let’s light fires everywhere this season!

I’m kicking off the ultimate tool to rocket you in that direction – it’s an all new, revamped opportunity to test drive the power of entrepreneurial shrinking.

The best part? It’s totally free.

Introducing The Shrink for Entrepreneurs Clarity Couch 

The purpose of thinking, of business strategy and any kind of introspective work…. is clarity. You might say it’s what I, as Shrink to the business elite, deal in. I hawk insight and peddle precision-of-vision.

Clarity is what you’re missing when you know you should be doing something different, but you’re not sure what.

Clarity is what you’re missing when you feel like you’re operating WAY below your potential… and you’ve been feeling that way for longer than you like to admit.

Clarity is what you’re missing when you go to sleep every night promising yourself tomorrow will be the day you really get moving… only to wake up and procrastinate.

When you’re stuck, confused or simply lost, when your vision is clouded by some inscrutable obstacle… it is clarity that ye seek!

Now you can have it. Free. Without obligation.

In a glorious experiment that may prove to be disastrous for me (so act fast – because this offer may not be permanent), I’m offering custom recorded audio power-consults, where I illuminate your situation and shed light on swift solutions. It’s a one stop, quick fire jolt – sending you speeding on your way to a holiday of insight, action, better business and real balance.

You fill out a simple questionnaire (should take 5-10 minutes) and I go away, meditate on your answers and record a riff of my therapeutic insight.

The recording will be delivered to your inbox. You can download it and listen at your leisure. The committed amongst you will locate a chaise lounge to lay back on as you do so. Ink spot analysis is strictly optional.

Like I said, this is a totally new idea. It’s partly to celebrate my shift away from the last year’s experiment with email consults – now that I’m balancing phone and email client work, audio makes sense.

This will also be a better, higher impact way for me to make a difference in the success of your business. And it’s definitely the best way I can think to equip you with the tools you need to thrive and survive during the holidays.

I can’t warn you enough how quickly I’ll yank this offer though, if it becomes overwhelming. I’m counting on the fact that most folks are so ridden with self sabotage that they’ll actually procrastinate taking action on this free offer (believe me, it’ll happen!)… but since this really is totally new, who knows? Get in fast and you won’t miss out.

Click here to take the Clarity Couch Challenge today!

It’s the first step to making your holidays the best yet – for you, your family and your business.

PS I’ve got something else coming up – the first (and probably last) sale that will ever be made at this website. Because I’m taking something permanently off the market. More info soon… so keep checking that smartphone of yours!

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