I finally found the secret sauce to my business: The secret sauce is that there is no secret sauce! Huge deal! Think about all the countless hours spent on trying to find short cuts or the secret sauce. I am guilty of it and so are you.
Guess what? Your business is the same as mine and there are no short cuts out there. Business is hard; let's face it. But business can be fun as heck too. We just have to have our priorities in line, execute everyday with passion, and being willing to make changes with enthusiasm.
Make progress everyday. Advance your business. Block by block; continue moving up.
I think Herb Kelleher (CEO of Southwest airlines) had it perfect when he said Southwest had a "strategic" plan: It's called doing things."
Don't waste anymore time on shortcuts or trying to find the secret sauce because they don't exist.
For my non-business owners: This concept applies to our daily lives as well. In life, we spend time looking for many different secret sauces to fill in the blanks. They don't exist. Example: A marriage (or any relationship). Marriages take work and effort. There are not short cuts or secret sauce to make marriages or relationships work. It's all about doing the little things daily that add up to big success.
Easy to say.....but it the execution that matters!
Go out there and TRY THINGS/DO THINGS and keep pickin' em up and puttin' em down!
Chris
