"LOVE IS the new currency.

PEACE IS the new measure of success.

TRUTH IS the new security.

JOY IS the new status symbol."

~Debbie Barnett~

How to Be in Alignment in Your Business  

and Achieve Superior Results

As we enter the midpoint of the decade, it's time to reevaluate the impact of how we do what we do for a living. A more conscious way of conducting business is on the rise, one that's based on cooperation vs. competition.  

Eclipse season (i.e. open portal) 2011 inspired me to write the following best practices for a conscious business. My business name is Conscious Flow, Inc., after all, and it is the time of Capricorn (the business end of the Zodiac).  

An aligned business is a success business, one that produces not only a sustainable living, but one whose actions honor the whole. Follow these tips and bring your business or career into alignment: 

• First and foremost, be of service. Sales are a result of great service.
• Allow them to see your humanity. Be real. Be authentic. Admit to your mistakes and apologize. Be transparent.
• Be heart-centered. Love your customers and staff, and they will love you back, bending over backwards to help you out and stay loyal.
• Collaborate with your team. Conscious business is a group effort. Solicit your management and staff on what their vision is for your business, the direction it's going now. What's the potential they see? Incorporate their ideas into the mix. Give credit where it is due and give praise often.
• Understand the power of branding. What makes you unique? How can you convey that uniqueness to the world?
• Have a sense of urgency when it comes to how your brand is portrayed. The fast pace of life these days requires a commitment to fast turnaround, no lollygagging allowed. 
• Communicate your vision to your staff, customers and prospects.
• Get clear on what "success" looks like. Have clarity of vision, and be able to say it in 30 seconds or less.
• Have monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual goals. Create a one page project management sheet for each goal.
• Management and staff to write down DAILY to-do's, goals, intentions, how they wish to serve.
• It starts at the top. When a leader is involved and engaged, it sets a good example. We lead by example. You are "on" at all times.
• Be in integrity with your word (see "The Four Agreements" by Don Miquel Ruiz). Start your meetings when you say they will start. End at the time you say they will end. If you tell someone you will get back to them, do it. Little things make a big impact energetically.
• The back of the house needs to match the front of the house. What's on the inside, will eventually show on the outside.
• Small things done consistently have a big impact. Little changes in how your approach business will reverberate throughout your organization.