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“Hey Meg! Why so quiet?”

I got an email recently, from a reader who used to enjoy my regular posting. He wondered, “what gives?” Where was the content he used to enjoy reading?

In a nutshell - I Need to Regroup.

I’ll explain.

In the elusive hunt for everflowing greenbacks, moneda, dinero, Benjamins, good hunters and huntresses need to do one important thing to survive…

Evolve

And in the evolution of my business, as one should with any business, I must take a step back, like with art, and see the whole picture.

I’m analyzing many factors, such as:

1. What facetes of my business do I most enjoy?
   With having a “portfolio style” business, as Coach Dave Buck, CEO of Coachville, would call it - I have several main components, not just one focus. In my Coaching, Writing, Designing, and Educating - I’m looking at if there’s something I like to do more than the others.

   And in this evaluation, I come to one conclusion. Nope. I love them all. It’s the client or the project that makes the difference.

2. What do the people want?
   

   Give the people what they want - not what they should want.

   In order to follow this old adage, one really needs to study people, and their motivating factors. People are motivated in buying, and in everything they do by a force somewhere between Fear <-> Love. Where do your products and services fall on that spectrum? Where do mine?

3. What aspects of my business can I outsource?
   I have more ideas than the day is long - but everyone from the novices to the “guru moguls” all have one limiting factor in common. There is only 24 hours in a day. One needs to sleep for some of them, and if one wants a happily fulfilled life - one needs to be social for some of them, too.

   We all are working with the same limit in hours. But we can struggle with that hurdle alone, or we can get help & leap the hurdle as part of a team.

   Don’t get me wrong… I like being a solopreneur. The success of my businesses will reach the tipping point and mushroom by leaps and bounds when I can leverage the time of others.

There are other evaluation factors, too, but these are the big three that I’m re-organizing my businesses around.

I wonder how you would answer those, on your own Hunt for Money?

The other day on Oprah, Dr. Oz talked about Alzheimer’s and how the country of India has an exceedingly low rate of Alzheimer’s disease. Could it really be something in the tumeric and curry?

The disease is not a normal part of aging, but is the leading cause of dementia in people over 65.

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain’s nerve cells, or neurons, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and language skills, and behavioral changes.

Symptoms can happen much earlier, when the disease inhibits the function of the neurons and they ultimately die. When Alzheimer’s disease kills cells in the hippocampus, it causes short term memory loss, but when it progresses to neurons dying in the cerebral cortex language and motor function decline. You can learn more about the disease by visiting the AFA through the link in this post.

Until there is a cure, and with preventative measures are still in their infancy, we need organizations like the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. AFA is an organization that both supports caregivers and people living with Alzheimer’s and supports research and the search for the cure.

“To provide optimal care and services to individuals confronting dementia, and to their caregivers and families—through member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life.”

While you’re shopping for gifts for loved ones, this holiday season, consider gifts that give more. What if your holiday gift could be the one that saves millions of people? What if we’re at the tipping point of Alzheimer’s research and treatment and the few extra dollars from the necklace, bracelet, or Alzheimer’s caregiver training program dvds are precisely what’s needed to finish the research and find the cure?

All of the proceeds from the purchases from the Alzheimer’s Foundation Online store go to support the programs and services of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and its member organizations. If you know of someone that has lived through Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia, I know you’ll want to do what you can to help the cause.