I think confusion is overrated. We can spend a lot of time stressing, fretting and wondering which is the right fork in the road, the right person to hire or the right conversation to have. We just become unsure and downright ineffective.

What to do when we’re confused? Just stop! Stop and go back to the simplest solution. We can search the world over, but the simplest solutions come from within us, and they would scream at us loud and clear if we just stopped and listened.

What are you confused about right now? Write it down and just sit with a cup of tea or take a walk, the solution is there, the secret is….. don’t miss it.

Don’t over promise and under deliver; it’s not cool. Promises are what our clients depend and rely on. If you say you will have the project completed by Monday, do it. If you say you will put a presentation together by tomorrow, do it. If you tell a client that they can expect a package tomorrow, make sure it happens.

Are you a business that has become complacent with your clients? Do you show up on time? Do you deliver on time? Do you deliver what you promised you would? When we break our promise to our clients, whether it’s in the form of a broken word or neglected agreement, do we have the right to sit back and ask ourselves “Why are they so upset at me?” Or “How come they went to the competitor?”

It is not enough to do a good job or even a great job if we are constantly breaking our promises to our clients. It’s easy to do when we are busy, and a lost client here or there doesn’t matter….but the tables always turn, are you prepared?

When I think of time I think of the rabbit in Alice in wonderland singing "I’m late, I’m late for a very important date”, but did he really get anywhere?

We all have the same amount of time in our day, that is the one thing we all share that is exactly the same. It doesn’t matter if you live here, Africa, New York, or Greenland; whether you are 12 years old or 80 years old we all have 24 hours in our day.

How do you organize your time? Do you pay yourself first from your time bank for a good night’s sleep, a workout to keep your mind and body in top shape, go for a walk or run in some fresh air, meet with an old friend or enjoy special moments with your family? If work, demanding tasks and running around like the rabbit are what you withdraw first out of your time bank, then it won’t be long before you either go into debt with time loans or end up bankrupt.

Have you ever gotten close to a vacation and all of the sudden your business gets crazy busy? Imagine if you lived first and then had only a few hours to work, just how much might you accomplish? Why not try it? Pay yourself time first.

"What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time,but have been lived, used by what we do?"

-Jacob Needleman

What does that mean? To the hungry and homeless it may mean surviving the day. To the unemployed sole provider for their family it may mean to find work. To some it’s walking into a store and not having to worry about how much you’re spending on something you really want, and to others still it means to have reached a desired top position, gained another record profit year, or have accumulated great assets.

There is no right or wrong answer here. Success means different things to different people. The only question is, what does success mean to you? And once you have reached it, how do you know?

Everyday I say to myself “you have to blog today”. Why? To be recognized as an industry expert? So Google will rank me higher? To deliver relevant and informative content to people who will consider it valuable?

Most days my page remains blank. The other priorities get in the way and my excuses just keep mounting. Do you ever feel this way?

What I do love doing every day is operating on my “word” for the day. Usually I have a word each day that pops into my head and it inspires me, directs me and encourages me that day. Some folks like to write about the culture in their organization, others like to write about how to build your business and others yet like to write about their professional experiences. That’s cool; I like to write about my “word”.

After all, blogging is really about talking to, sharing with and engaging whoever wants to listen to you and thinks your content is relevant to them.