Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jonah on February 01, 2008, 08:33:15 pm
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What is the best piece of advice or learned from a book to motivate you ? You know the one when you wake up in a morning and you wanna pull the duvet over ya face .
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I went to a seminar a while back, the guy taking it was called watt nichol - he is a motivational speaker and wayne rooney is amongst his client base.
absolutely superb, this guy will motivate anyone who listens
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spill
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One of my first customers was an old farmer and the immortal line that I remember
' Lad you get nowt for nowt '
Has stuck with me for over seven years.
Rob ;D
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Have you reached your weekly-monthly target if not,GET UUUUUUP.It`s to easy to turn over and parp,think of the pound notes or the fact that you`ll have less to do at the end of the week,what i do is hammer it for the first 3 days and then ease of the gas a bit for the last 2.
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I don't have any trouble getting out of bed and starting but when i stop home for lunch that's when motivation takes a dive. I've also not had enough work so have got used to running out early. If i work till three that feels like a long day!
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mine is very shallow and i know its shallow
my next holiday
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If i work till 3 i`ve done over 8 hours,it is funny though how this time of year gets you thinking about holidays.
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I start at 8 o'clock every day finish about 3
mon to thursday and fridays I only do my shops finish about 10ish ;D
Mo 8)
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Roll on April of to Lanzarote for 2 wks ;D ;D
Mo 8)
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money money money its there to be made so get up and make it
you wont get rich sleeping in bed
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I go to work everyday and take the wet days as my days off,twice a year i have very good holidays and that does me.
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Is it me or do the days leading up to the holiday make for a better experience than the holiday itself ?
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When customers ask how can you work on a day like today, I normally say to them " The wife says if I don't come back with some money, you won't get no tea "
Met a couple of old dears one cold frosty morning, they told me it reminded them of when they used to go sprout picking with their father, and one of them said her hands were cold, her father said " yer can't be working fast enough then ! "
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Is it me or do the days leading up to the holiday make for a better experience than the holiday itself ?
leading up to my holiday is doing my head in, no way is it a nice experience, time seems to be going backwards even the weather is trying to stop me from working, just wating for 5 foot of snow so I can put some pics on my site ;)
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was he behind her ?
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"Early in the day, early in the week, early in the month."
Then I should have a few days free during the last week of the month to go mountain walking or road cycling or motorbiking!
(Or a couple of afternoons in bed with Mrs Malc Gold! :-[ :o ;D)
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i just pull the duvet over my face ;D
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Ok mr thorpe thanks for your input just logging it as we speak ;)
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for me thts what being self empoyed is all about ....if i dont want to do it i dont ;D
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was looking for some inspiration mate ! ;D
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What motivates me? the wife telling me to get to work, or no nookie.
Needless to say I am off like a shot :D
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I play golf on sundays and if I go in the club for one beer afterwards I generally end up having bloody loads :P
Well you might as well cancel mondays :-[
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What motivates me? the wife telling me to get to work, or I'm having nookie.
Needless to say I am off like a shot ;D
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That is the funniest thing ive read for ages .....neighbours must think im mad laughing out loud !
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was looking for some inspiration mate ! ;D
ok then how bout this"oh bugger it then spose i better get up ,still even if i only do 40 quid its still MY 40 quid" what ya reckon ;D
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sorry but its been ages since i cried when i laughed so much 1
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Having just come back from 3 weeks in Thailand...I have to say that all the hard work and getting up when I really felt like staying in bed was well worth it....
Today is the first saturday back and the g/f and I are off down the today to grab some holiday brouchers...to plan our summer & winter hols....
Daily, weekly and monthly targets motivate me....
Dave.
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Holidays are always a good motivation to get you working i have just booked mine and it has focused me for that period after that i want a larger van and a longer pole and want to pay for these straight off and not from my savings so i put a little aside every day its another target to aim at getting there slowly
Dean
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Mortgage and bills are pretty good motivation most of the time. I find George helps because it shows you what you have done each week and each month.
I have a challenge each month to take more than I did the previous month. So far I have achieved it seven months in a row.
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mine is very shallow and i know its shallow
my next holiday
my god your as shallow as me :D :D
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My motivation is to wind up the Ex missus and be successfull and be able to take the kids where I want when I want and buy what I want
Also an old science Teacher who told me I would amount to Nothing
He was an ex copper and got the sack for attempting to strangle a kid
Me I run my own Buisness
They are my motivations
Jago
Where there is muck there is Brass or Notes nowadays
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I always set goals, short and long term...this year will have my house....3yr goal is to have 911 on the drive, these keep me motivated!!
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Bloody hell how big is your round then Mick
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Lol..... ;)...secret is...i dont smoke or drink, and to be honest dont go out much as im a single parent, so have a nice bit of disposable income!!!!
when i did, i used to spend well over 200 a week, so that over 3 yrs = over 30k which is a decent 2nd hand 911!!!
1st goal, was to get my lad into private school, done that 4 yrs ago.
All possible as long as you stick to a plan ;)
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Lol..... ;)...secret is...i dont smoke or drink, and to be honest dont go out much as im a single parent, so have a nice bit of disposable income!!!!
when i did, i used to spend well over 200 a week, so that over 3 yrs = over 30k which is a decent 2nd hand 911!!!
1st goal, was to get my lad into private school, done that 4 yrs ago.
All possible as long as you stick to a plan ;)
Chapeaux to Mick Hay - that's the spirit mate! :)
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My motivation recently has been to be able to pay for the missus and me to go to Egypt (5 weeks Monday ;D) for an additional scuba trip on top of the 2 others within the year ;D to purchase my trolley system (both done and paid for) and now to save for the van which Im hoping to buy this May (halfway to saving enough for that)
My other motivations are I love this job, I love achieving, I feel good about myself when I feel Im getting somewhere (be that re-branding, new work from advertising, or just word of mouth recommendations.....), and believing in myself and knowing how positive it all can feel to be doing it because it just feels right and thats good.
Matt
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My motivation recently has been to be able to pay for the missus and me to go to Egypt (5 weeks Monday ;D) for an additional scuba trip on top of the 2 others within the year ;D to purchase my trolley system (both done and paid for) and now to save for the van which Im hoping to buy this May (halfway to saving enough for that)
My other motivations are I love this job, I love achieving, I feel good about myself when I feel Im getting somewhere (be that re-branding, new work from advertising, or just word of mouth recommendations.....), and believing in myself and knowing how positive it all can feel to be doing it because it just feels right and thats good.
Matt
Matt you may never know how refreshing that post was but good on you m8 ;)
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Really good posts , have heard this a lot about making goals and it makes a lot of sense wether finanncial or family values it makes sense to be focused .
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Really good posts , have heard this a lot about making goals and it makes a lot of sense wether finanncial or family values it makes sense to be focused .
if you dont have a goal, you have no aim, if you dont have an aim, how are you ever going to hit the target to get to to the goal that you never had?.
A goal is the starting point of anything ;)
Motivation, make a goal and aim for it, if you miss it, aim again till you hit it, then set another that how we all progress in the sad place we call England
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My motivation recently has been to be able to pay for the missus and me to go to Egypt (5 weeks Monday ;D) for an additional scuba trip on top of the 2 others within the year ;D to purchase my trolley system (both done and paid for) and now to save for the van which Im hoping to buy this May (halfway to saving enough for that)
My other motivations are I love this job, I love achieving, I feel good about myself when I feel Im getting somewhere (be that re-branding, new work from advertising, or just word of mouth recommendations.....), and believing in myself and knowing how positive it all can feel to be doing it because it just feels right and thats good.
Matt
Matt you may never know how refreshing that post was but good on you m8 ;)
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My motivation recently has been to be able to pay for the missus and me to go to Egypt (5 weeks Monday ;D) for an additional scuba trip on top of the 2 others within the year ;D to purchase my trolley system (both done and paid for) and now to save for the van which Im hoping to buy this May (halfway to saving enough for that)
My other motivations are I love this job, I love achieving, I feel good about myself when I feel Im getting somewhere (be that re-branding, new work from advertising, or just word of mouth recommendations.....), and believing in myself and knowing how positive it all can feel to be doing it because it just feels right and thats good.
Matt
Matt you may never know how refreshing that post was but good on you m8 ;)
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Pat on the back for Matt I say ;)
some post are really good without even trying to be and that IMO was a classic good post :)
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My motivation is MONEY, HOLIDAYS and a GOOD LIFE and time to spare with the family every day. That's why I have been cleaning now for 20 years. ;D
Seems to work for me.
I am up early, not to go to work but because of 20 years getting up at silly oclock I just can't get out of the habbit, even weekends. :(
Regards
Adam