Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Moderator David@stives on March 05, 2013, 08:43:37 pm
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I am looking for a Business mentor, Free of Charge of Course
Please reply and tell me why I should choose you
Qualities needed
To be able to advise me on how to handle Employees, Business Growth, Stress, Difficult contract managers, how not to take it out on the dog, Having to employ family, slow payers etc.
if interested send me your CV
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sole trader,residential,standing order........probably in that order..no fee for this
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only one man for the job ;)
richy wilts ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Hi Dave
I would be happy to to chat and swap ideas with you if you like. My email address is dwoods@allcleanservices.co.uk
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only one man for the job ;)
richy wilts ;D ;D ;D ;D
Yeah Franky there's a guy we know
Lol
Dave knows him too
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only one man for the job ;)
richy wilts ;D ;D ;D ;D
cheers for nominating me franky saved me the job dave call me ;D ;D ;D
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You already know the answer Dave and you're probably doing it now.
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I no I am 8)
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You need Mr Lancaster. Why do you want all that stress? ;D IMO I bet Ian does ont need a mentor ;D
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You already know the answer Dave and you're probably doing it now.
drinkin
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You already know the answer Dave and you're probably doing it now.
Self-abuse?
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I'm pretty good with dealing with stress levels these days and there's lots of good books on the subject too. Quite often if we remove/decrease the stress, other problems tend to get sorted along the way. And it also creates less problems too.
A good starting point is to realise that it's US that creates the stress, it's not the external factors.
There's quite a famous study into stress where they studied a bunch of air traffic controllers - typically believed to be a high pressure (therefore stressful) occupation. The findings? Some air traffic controllers were stressed, others weren't. It went to show that it wasn't their occupations that were causing them stress, it was their REACTION to the job.
Now, if stress if stress were completely due to external factors, we wouldn't have much control over it. But this study shows that stress is an internal thing, which is good news; it means we have some control over it.
However, it's not something that we can use will power to control; we can't say, "Okay, I'm stressed, I'll now be less stressed!", that's not going to work. What we need to control stress is a METHOD. I use a range of stuff, but I think practising meditation and mindfulness is a large part of that.
The time investment in this when you first start is small; 10 to 20 minutes a day. My suggestion is to investigate it; there's lots of scientific evidence to show that it can offer a range of physical and mental benefits. There's lots of good books on the subject too. The Art of Happiness is highly recommended.
And if you remove the stress, the problems are removed, and all the other stuff you're after help with may seem less of a problem and just stuff you need to do.
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Good posts guys
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I nice bottle of Pinot and an indian takeaway is just what the Dr ordered when the stress levels kick in.
Or take a week out and get a job working for an agency on the minimum wage, that would prove very educational.
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Hi
Part of my stress was du to text threats
One of my guys had an altercation, with a local thug,
Then 2 days later I received a text stating if i don't give them the name of my window cleaner, by Wednesday, they are going to attack my business, starting with my vans.
I replied to them the next day, explain they were being stupid, then got the reply "wrong answer you have until Wednesday"
Got a final text this morning saying "Times up, the Boys are coming"
I am just going out to dinner, and going to see if there's any damage when I get back, I was going to buy some surveillance equipment, but I cannot be bothered now.
Now time for Tea :-)
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Dave, I think it would be time to get the police involved and the surveillance equipment. This is just a common sense approach.
Hope you enjoy your tea.
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You need somebody very positive
Somebody who can influence you
Somebody you can take advice from
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Hi Tosh
The police are involved,
I cannot be bothered with cameras etc, maybe I might think different tomorrow, and will take a trip to Maplins
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Dave,
I was on the phone this evening and heard a knock on my door,
I walked into my kitchen and saw somebody standing by my back door with a cap on with a strong light shining into the glass, I put the phone down and opened the door.
Without going into too much detail, it was an ex employee filming me on his mobile phone basically interviewing me as to why he doesn't work with me anymore, he then handed over an envelope to me with a letter inside of it.
To say I was amazed is a total understatement, its the same employee that I discussed with you over the last few days.
I've since had a chat with him and explained that it isn't really a good idea going down the line he did (or words to that effect).
You really couldn't write it could you?
You do get a bit of that whilst employing though and I will move on to the next problem. :)