Spark In Your Eye
I am still excited from the speech I gave last week at the University of Texas-Pan American to the Senior Class Business Majors. The blessing it was to see their faces light up in hope and attention was incredible. The best part was that I went over the main points that I speak about in my first book along with a few secrets I teach in my second book:
How to treat people correctly and know them by heart instead of by receipt. It’s weird, and rude, to think of any person as a walking dollar bill. For one- none of us are that literally. For two- I always feel disrespected or if I am of no importance to employees at stores that don’t care at all about my personal goals or why I purchased something from them. Three- we are worth more than any amount of money we can ever have in our lifetime. People, simply put, are priceless. Imagine treating all your friends as extra money, I bet you wouldn’t have many pretty soon. Same goes with hiring people for a business or growing a Team.
Have faith in your marketing. Some people hear the word “marketing” and assume that we are talking about making massive amounts of money from out of nowhere. As great that sounds, it’s practically impossible. If it’s possible, it’s probably illegal. So what is “marketing”? Marketing is putting some money we may have and investing it in something that has a BIG chance to bring us back more. This is not the stock market. This is not advertising. As a matter of fact, it’s actually something you do on a daily basis! When I used to work at my old job, I worked per hour. I wanted to get promoted, so I bought professional clothes, showed up early as much as I could, I even skipped class a few times. All this is actually marketing. Why? I was doing things that cost me time, money, energy, sacrifice, and effort- hoping that they would bring me back something more in return. What was that something? Getting promoted. The only problem was that I kept getting asked to sacrifice more and more, until it got to the point where my investments were family- and like I stated earlier, people are priceless, so I had to change. If that all sounded confusing, here’s a smaller example- putting gas in your car daily or weekly to go work and get paid more than the cost.
Change lives for the better. I went on a good five or more minutes talking about this one sentence, because I’m extremely passionate about doing just that. I posted on my personal profile, “Did you know that at any time there are 1 in 20 employees in the workplace who suffer from depression or suicidal thoughts due to their financial situation or massive debt? These are people that are single, married, may or may not have children, college students, anyone!”
So I asked the entire class of 30+ soon-to-be business owners: What are you going to do to save that 1 out of 20? Will your business be the reason they are depressed or having suicidal thoughts? Or will your business be the life-changing chapter in their life that saved them from their last job? It was a moment of epiphany for many, as I could see their eyes light up, a few leaned in forward with intensity, others were writing down these questions.
Life is a battle, but we have what it takes to win. Life is about helping ourselves so we can learn how to help others. Living is helping so many people that we no longer are focused on just us, but focused on the better of those that need help. So I ask you, my wonderful blog reader, how can you implement these three points that I talked about today? Let me know right below, or on my FaceBook page, I would love to know 🙂
With Your Health and Success In Mind,
Coach Peter Hanz