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Using Business Sense
When you hear the term business sense, you think of sound applications that are applied to your business practice. Well, that is correct, but how can we apply this term to our every day living. Look at your life as if you are running a business and you are striving to make it a successful one. There are things that are necessary and vital to running a successful business, money (having an income), good employees (having good ethics and values), excellent products and services (You are the product and the services are how you conduct yourself) and a passion to succeed. This terminology is just for the business of being you.
We have watched the collapse of the banking system, the automobile industry, and industrial plants fail, over last few years and how adversely it has affected the world economy. Even though these business minds, studied at the best schools, have access to the latest technology, unlimited resources and world class marketing, they all failed. Why? No common sense. When we don't apply common sense to our every day life, we are destined for failure. We can see that business sense is more than just knowledge, facts, and figures, but it is essentially how you apply them. That goes the same for our everyday life. When you apply these principles to your life, life is much easier and you and you gain complete control. No one said life was easy; remember "it rains on the just and unjust." But our lives can be so much more manageable when we apply common sense to everything that we do. It is the simple things that we need to get back to. We have held onto handed down ideas and value that just don't apply to anyone being successful. I refrain from giving examples, because the list is endless when it comes to the many things we have readily accepted as "keeping it real."
Today we need to examine the things we do and develop more of conscience, when it comes to how we manage our lives. The past is just not relevant today, "what was cool is now so uncool". No longer can we ignore doing what is right by our families and for ourselves. Using discretion when it comes to how and what we spend sustainable income on is step one. We also need to also apply these principles to our health and welfare. "Common sense, it the key that unlocks our potential for what we can do and who we can become." For too long, the same old ideas and values have kept us in the same place or worse. How long will we allow others to prosper off of us, while our communities continue to spiral downward? Business sense, allows you readjust your vision, plan a new direction and implement your plan. If we use those principles, there is just a chance that we might just be the success our maker intended us to be.
