Newsletter: Featured Lifestyle: Balance - vol 2, issue 1

In This Issue...

Bee's Club News

Featured Leader: Paul Hoyt

"Intro to The Foundation Factor"

Guess Who Game!

Insights to Success: Balancing the Six P's of Success

Steve's Creations: Balancing your Diet with your Garden Crops

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Bee's Club News:

Welcome Club Members!

This week's newsletter is going to be a real treat. We are covering the Balanced Lifestyle with Paul Hoyt, and he gives some real insight into living a balanced life. Read the Introduction to The Foundation Factor to get this insight.

We also have a new alliance partner in our club called Barter Bucks. We will be talking more about this partner and how it can help the group members in future newsletters.

I also want to remind everyone about our next teleseminar on April 23rd. I will be sending out an announcement very soon about the teleseminar with details on how to sign up to reserve your spot, the time and other important information.

Congratulations to George Bigger and Kathryn Alexander, who are featured members on the CCQH-Leadershipclub group and Squidoo. If you would like to see yourself featured on this group, add your lens, or create one using this link.

And speaking of Squidoo, and a shameless plug, I will be featured in an upcoming spotlight interview for the weekly SquidU Review at Squidoo! Apparently, they liked what I was doing there and want to interview me! How cool is that?

Be sure to post any questions or comments or connection requests you have, on the forum. It is there as a resource to you. We will have more exciting things in the future to help facilitate the process of meeting others in the club, but in the end, it will be for you, what you make of it.

 

To Your Success!

B. Hopkins
CCQH Club Manager

B. Hopkins, owner of Psiphon Consulting specializes in Internet Business Development for small to mid sized companies. This includes creating Ecommerce Solutions, Internet Marketing Strategies, Automation of Website Business Strategies, and Website Programming.

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Featured Leader :

Paul Hoyt

Introduction to The Foundation Factor

By Paul Hoyt

My Story –- Part One

“If I'm so darn smart, how come starting a business is so darn hard?” 

The first time I started a business, the question ran through my mind a dozen times a day. I was a very good computer programmer, no, a GREAT programmer, and I just knew that it was my destiny to run my own business - my very own highly profitable, fabulously successful business.

I soon discovered that being really good at delivering a service did not necessarily translate into business success. There were other things that were even more important, like getting business through sales and marketing. And unless you count the years behind the counter at the taco shop, or the summer I spent selling encyclopedias door-to-door, I had no sales experience at all. I also didn’t know what marketing was, or why it was important, so I was blissfully unaware of that weakness.

Still, by many accounts, my first business was a great success. When I shut down the business, I had almost as much money in the bank as when I started. My health was good, and I had less debt. The business simply did not meet my income expectations or my lifestyle requirements anymore. My two children, then ages three and five, were the primary factor in my decision: I needed and wanted to spend more time at home. When I took a job, my income was reduced by 33% and so was my workload. I spent a lot of happy evenings at home performing “daddy duty”. But deep down, at least in part, I felt that I had failed.

That first business venture lasted almost five years. I learned the hard way that sales and marketing were very important, that not all people could be trusted, and that good partners were very hard to find. After I closed shop, I chose to return to corporate America for the next 18 years, determined to gain the experience I needed to be much more successful the next time I started a business. There was a lot to learn.

How Many Make It?

The common knowledge has been that 80% of new businesses fail in the first five years. But in an article by Brian Headd of the SBA at the following website, t (http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/bh_sbe03.pdf, March 20, 2002), the notion is dispelled a bit. He says that half of all businesses survive over four years, and that 30% are “successful” upon closure. Those with employees and decent financing had better chances of survival.

HG Parsa, Associate Professor of Hospitality Management at Ohio State University, says that 57-61% of new restaurants fail in the first three years (26% yr 1, 19% yr 2, 14% yr 3), which is “in line with other businesses”

(http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/restfail.htm). Many fail not because of bankruptcy, but because the owner doesn’t want to continue for family or personal reasons.

The common wisdom is that it takes two years to break even in the average business, and four years to show a profit. It may take much longer (over six years) before the business starts to generate a substantial return on your investment. Many new businesses are not funded nearly well enough to survive that long.

The bottom line is . . . If you are a member, click here to read entire article in the Club Newsletter

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Paul Hoyt's Profile

Paul Hoyt Paul M. Hoyt, owner and principal consultant with the Hoyt Management Group, has over 30 years experience leading teams to improve profitability and productivity. Comfortable “from the boardroom to the boiler room”, he has worked with dozens of organizations across many industries, and at all levels. His experience includes P&L responsibilities at EDS, Oracle, Litton Industries, and Qwest Cyber Solutions. In addition, Mr. Hoyt has successfully started and managed two professional services companies, and consulted with hundreds of companies of all sizes.

Paul has a passion to help others succeed, especially small business owners. As a Business Architect, he is an expert at helping new businesses develop their initial plans, financial models, and growth strategies. For existing companies, he has enjoyed tremendous success at helping them develop and execute strategic plans to achieve their growth and exit strategy objectives. His general expertise in Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Financial Management, Operations, Product Development, and Customer Service enables him to analyze and assess the strength of a business foundation, and then develop great plans to correct deficiencies that impede profitability and growth.

Paul Hoyt is an authority at managing complex, large-scale cross-functional project teams to achieve both incremental and revolutionary improvements. He has extensive experience in managing high risk, large-scale programs requiring enterprise-wide teamwork and involving multiple and international locations. He has mentored many project and program managers, and has written an e-book on advanced techniques in Project Management and Project Auditing. He has specific expertise in helping companies design, implement, and manage Alliances and Partnerships, and Channel Marketing and Channel Sales organizations.

Paul Hoyt is on the Board of Directors of the Greenwood Village (Colorado) Chamber of Commerce, and has served on the board of the South Metro Denver Small Business Development Center (SBDC). He gives frequent seminars on a variety of subjects to facilitate the growth of small businesses in the Denver Metro area. Paul holds a faculty position with IBI Global, and is an active member of IBI Colorado.

Paul is the author of The Foundation Factor™, a manual of critical measurements in business strength, which helps business owners and investors focus on the importance of building a great business foundation. The Foundation Factor gives them the insight they need to understand what a great foundation looks like, and provides the means for them to develop their own business foundation profile™ to measure the strength of their business. The book was first published in October 2004.

Paul is also the author and recording artist of Remember, a simple, gentle, and powerful pathway to your magnificent potential. Remember includes a book and narration, along with music on a CD, that has a timeless message guaranteed to inspire all who listen. You can also visit Paul and learn more about these products at www.hoytgroup.com. Paul's products are soon to be available also at www.ccqh-leadershipclub.com or www.ccqh.com.

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If you are a member, learn more about featured Leader and Liaison Paul Hoyt in the Club Newsletter or at www.ccqh-leadershipclub.com in Balance.

if you are a guest, learn more about Paul at www.ccqh-leadershipclub.com at the Lifestyle in Balance.

Contact Paul Hoyt here.

Guess Who:

Guess Who . . . is the leader in current times who has exemplified poise and grace in all six LIfestyle Areas. He/she has displayed a successful attitude at balancing spirit, mind, body with family, work, and society. He/she has expressed a solid faith in God, earned a degree in education and has become a strong proponent for literacy and education, carries himself/herself well with an attractive physically fit appearance, considered happily married while raising young adult children and enjoying R&R vacations together, conducts business in a prominent position daily, and serves society at-large in philanthropic and cause-related programs.

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The Guess Who™ Game focuses on celebrating famous leaders who display leadership qualities related to one of the Lifestyle Areas in Balance, Spirit & Passion, Mind & Purpose, Body & Power, Family & Plan, Work & Productivity, or Society & Profitability.

If you are a Club member, SUBMIT YOUR VOTE HERE, and if you get this right, you could qualifiy for the Guess Who Game surprise gift.

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Last Newsletter's (V.1/I.7) Guess Who Leader is . . . Oprah Winfrey..

Insights To Success:

Balancing the Six P's of Success:

Tools for Courageous Leadership

Contribute through

Plan, Productivity, and Profitabilty

Success has been defined by Earl Nightingale as the "progressive realization of a worthy ideal." An Ideal is an idea with which you have fallen in love, and would trade your life for its fulfillment. Yes, trade your life—moment by moment. Often times, people will put hours of thought into planning their vacation. How about planning your life? Balancing the Six P's of Success in your daily life will add a tremendous sense of peace and joy to your journey. Now. let's explore these Six P's of Success, starting with a summary of all six of them.

The Six P's of Success include: Passion, Purpose, Power, Plan, Productivity, and Profitability. (Philanthropy becomes an implied part of Profitability). Each of these elements of success will strengthen the other, yet, the first three are qualtiies that will empower you to strengthen your leadership skills and abilities. Whereas, the latter three elements are qualties from which you can contribute your leadership and serve humanity in making the world a better place for all to enjoy. Leaders at all levels of their abilities and development need to nurture each of these lifestyle areas in order to create a sense of balance in their ability to give and receive. The operative message here is that in order to give, we must receive, and in order to receive more, we must give away, so the cylce is everlasting and expanding. Yet, it must be respected with a pattern of balance, and an ebb and flow through your daily choices and activities. Before we discuss the Contributing Lifestyle area qualities, let's review the Empowering qualties.

During our first article on this series of Balancing the Six P's of Success, we covered keys for Self-Empowerment through the first three lifestyle area qualities of:

  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Power

Our intent was to assist you in accessing these qualities, so that you become more of who you desire to be. These elements of success empower you to be and do more, and become happier, healthier, and more able to move toward contributing more of who you are with others. Once you untap your passion, purpose naturally becomes essential. Power will provide you the fuel to realize your purpose. This is the exhilaration of Self-Empowerment.

During this second article of the series on Balancing the Six P's of Success, we will cover keys for Contribution through the second three lifestyle area qualities of:

  • Plan
  • Productivity
  • Profitability

There is a natural urge among leaders to share what they have learned and grown to become during their life's journey. As empowered leaders, we are in an optimal state of being to contribute ourselves and our leadership strengths to others. These next three lifestyle area qualities fully equip individuals to contribute their leadership successfully. The first step to your contribution with any other human being is having a plan, whether it be in family, work, or society. Think about any type of activity that you embark upon. Even the notion of doing nothing is an intentional plan of rest. As you build upon your power to be a resource for yourself and others, you gradually become more adept at building plans for your leadership. If you are a member, sign in to www.ccqh-leadershipclub.com and click here to read the entire article in the Club Newsletter

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Gain more on how to use this tool to increase your profitability in Society through Insights to SuccessExcerpt from Insights to Success, The Six P's of Success. ©2006 by Cheri Lutton. All rights reserved.

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Cheri Lutton—Contributed by Cheri Lutton, CEO & Founder, CCQH, Inc. Cheri serves through her work as a Leadership Development Expert, Author, and Media Host/Speaker.

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"Dream your plan and plan your dream, and you will dream the experience and experience the dream."

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More inspirational quotations are available at

CCQH® Quotes-that-Inspire™.

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Steve's Creations:

Gardening Balance

Balancing your Diet with your Garden Crops

Steve's Tip™:  Read in the Club Newsletter.

We could probably all admit that we could use more leafy greens in our diet. Why not take a shot at growing your own salad bowl? Our family loves to eat freshly steamed spinach. It feels like your eating a bowl full of vitamins, having just picked the leaves fresh from the backyard. There's nothing like the crisp texture and vibrant colors of just-harvested greens. Not to mention, the reassurance that no pesticides or harmful chemicals were used in what we're putting on the table. It's deeply satisfying to myself and my wife, as parents, knowing also that we are providing our family with wholesome nourishment. So, let me share with you how you too can make this happen for your family's garden. If you are a member, sign in to www.ccqh-leadershipclub.com and click here to read entire article in the Club Newsletter.

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Excerpt from Steve's Creations-from Soil to Skillet®.©2006 by Steve & Cheri Lutton. All rights reserved.

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Steve's Creations—'Contributed by Steve Lutton, CFO, CCQH, Inc. and Renegade Press, Inc. Steve serves through his work as a Cooking & Gardening Expert and Business Manager

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