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Thursday, July 30, 2009
It was a friendlyville kind of a day here in Toronto
today: I earned some honourable dollars moving furniture around a house and garage. A team of
two: the Customer and myself. It was a lot of fun talking and sharing in
comarderie. Even though these were "personal servant tasks" attending to residential needs our
conversation included the business theme.
Taking on the Business Servant attitude
makes everything so much more relaxing - since the focus is on serving and not so much on personal gain even though I was
rewarded well and thus realised much personal gain. The Business Servant was alive and well in me as our conversations
included discovering potential future opportunities to serve in both personal and business servant roles.
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When we give the Business to God (and
for me Christ) it is so amazing the opportunities that flow to you. No doubt when
we talk about Business, we reap what we sow so therein it is good to reap - to add value.
For the past week I have been developing a new Internet Marketing concept which will (God-willing) be launched
in August 2009: here's the advance scoop which will give you a hint as to the field of expanding our services
to you: www.SEO2b1.com. The concept is very Human Energy oriented which
will challenge our productivity and performance on the international stage. It is fun to pursue being the best
that you can be. The passion I thirst for as a Business Servant is to build a company
that embodies leadership by example and provides the vehicle which can be replicated
so that others can boost their productivity and fulfillment levels of themselves,
their co-workers, colleagues, family and friends.
Here's a thought for you....
The other day a friend came to visit me and while taking a walk down
by the lake (Ontario) we got to talking very in depth: deciding on the best opportunity to pursue regarding
a situation. As is sometimes the case I will walk in reflection to the challenge looking down. Then while I said "I've
got a brilliant idea", I raised my head only to look out across the lake to see the rainbow's end hovering
magnificently above the waterline directly in front of me. (Lake Ontario is about 28 miles wide so while it looked like
the end was only a few miles out it might well have been more. (There's a smile in the pocket: I can take this
vision having seen it and reproduce it with the power of my mind by cognizantly storing it when I see it: Your Memory
Camera for when you don't have a camera, etc.
As beautiful as this image was, I mention this as, at the time when I connected
the rainbow to the great idea I had when I saw it, I wonder if this might perhaps indeed be a blessing encouraging me to pursue
and that this is God's Hand guiding me and us.
Wishing you smiles and happy thoughts,
Cheers,
Mark Mueller
416 769-7700
10:36 pm edt
Monday, July 20, 2009
9:40 am edt
Eight days between my first introductory blog entry and I must say that the business servant
and corporate vision of friendlyville dot com is off to a flying start. June 30th brought the successful
closing date of an almost half a million dollar (CDN) real estate sale which I was actively involved in during
the past half year. As such I thought that I would be able to enjoy some Ontario tourism.
Not the case I am happy to report. Friendlyville dot Com is all about networking when
opportunities present themselves. I believe this best achieved by being friendly and
serving others as you would yourself want to be served: e.g. presenting actions that demonstrate
to place the interest of others ahead of oneself.
I present my July 2nd adventure as an example
of how it works. Attending to my tasks I decide I will call my friend who told me she was in extreme pain.
When I arrived to attend and be with her I thought what to do? I telephoned my www.Health2b1.com friends: I have been earning my stripes as their Marketing Consultant (and Business Servant) for
their Health and Holistic and Naturopathic remedies practitioners' business. I asked that although I
knew we were scheduled to assist with moving boxes later that day could they attend my friend across town: I would drive and
pick them up and drive them back home. Without question the reply was "Yes". When I arrived to pick them up
one had not arrived from their clinic yet. As she left a note for the other I suggested we use the visualization
technique and see the other as we would drive counter the public transit route to the subway. As we turned
to go north there was our friend. A one hour session of massage and treatments and my friend was much
better. I had and have every confidence in them.
Now this is all nice and fine and dandy yet this "business”
must be supported with revenues. Well it turns out that my friends have networked and scheduled and has received more
treatments and the practitioners are in need of my friend's (the patient in this case) real estate services and booked future
treatments with her new Pain Management Specialist. From a pure business perspective
one new Customer was gained with another potential realestate transaction seed being planted.
Nuture this seed with service - be there to provide whatever resources (within your capabilities)
are necessary to help it to fruition. Use your intuition to invest your limited
resources wisely.
The payoff comes in that when serving as such, the relationships were strengthened
so that when needed one can employ this friendlyville dot Com concept to call and ask something
of another for another (or if absolutely necessary, for oneself). A lot of times you can solve the problem with a phone
call to someone knowledgeable, yet in this above reported event - perhaps as if demonstrating to me that this business
concept does work - it may involve surrendering a day or half a day.
The super-cool
thing to was that their was initially never any mention of required payment for this expenditure of resources
and yet as in the end a monetary purchase of services - a business transaction - did occur.
I encourage everyone everywhere to seize the opportunity to serve. It’s a two step process.
FIRST: Recognize
the opportunity to serve and
SECOND: DIVE IN challenging yourself to demonstrate your exceptional performance
to benefit of another. Focus on a team attitude - and encourage this in everyone else assigned to complete the task
- even if it is only "me, myself, and I".
Always remember and trust in the wisdom of the adage: What
we shine out comes back many times.
Cheers
Mark
Friday, July 10, 2009
New and exciting things are about to happen here. We're building
our business to act as a servant to business and also to promote
others who encourage the same.
7:49 am edt
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