Review: Practical Suggestions For Any Business Owner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2012
As the owner of a small business (striving not to return to working for someone else), I amalways looking for more insights and suggestions on how to grow my business.So, while the meditation in the title didn't intially feel like my sort of solution to gettinga better bottom line, these Kindle books are always a fast read and, often, you can pick upa few nuggets of pure gold.And that's true of Meditation for Entrepreneurs - if, like me, reciting affirmations ormeditation or all that 'Eastern stuff' just seems totally unrelated to getting good resultsin your work, let me tell you why you might just want to suspend that thinking for a coupleof hours and read this book.The author spends the first third of the book with what is a really good review of just whatsuccess is, and what it takes to attain it - as a business owner and, frankly, in anything elsein life worth pursuing.While there weren't any "Ah-HA" moments in this review, it is helpful to be reminded of theseconcepts most entrepreneurs have already encountered, but possibly (like me) tend to takefor granted sometimes, or just not really think enough about.After laying this solid foundation, the author moves us into the Meditation territory of thetitle, presenting it as a truly useful, simple and available way to become more focussed,relieve stress and, essentially, gain mental control and strength.The method is guided meditations. You could buy tapes or CDs of guided meditations, and someof these are excellent, but when I tried one I found it didn't really suit me - it took toomuch time, I found the presentor's accent oddly distracting -- just couldn't get into it.But this book gives you the script and tells you how to make it uniquely your own (if youchose to tape it, or have a friend read it, or possibly convert it to a list - do this, thenthis...).It can be as long a mental refreshment break, or as short as you need. So, for example, ifyou wake up 15 minutes earlier in the morning so that you can do a 5-minute Start-the-Day-Out-Right meditation (rather than the usual morning scramble) and then have a better, moreproductive start once you get to your desk, you may accomplish your work with more satisfaction,and also more efficiency, than you do now.So, does it work? I tried an afternoon meditation. I decided it would be brief (5 minutes) andwould help with tackling a big project on my desk, while also doing the 'keeping it going'tasks of several other assignments and commitments for clients.Didn't do anything fancy (tape it, with spa-music in the background, nothing like that). Justmade an easy list from the provided script, put the list on the wall, and (using timer onlaptop screen) allowed one minute for each.The result was surprising. Even with that very simplified version of what the author issuggesting, the rest of the afternoon was productive, and I ended it with good progress,feeling good about what was accomplished, and definately less stressed (despite the factthat year-end looms).Based on that, I am taking it a step further to record my husband (often praised for his"radio voice") reading the Afternoon Meditation, and looking forward to having it as a newSuccess Tool in my business (and in the arsenal of life skills).If you want a new useful technique to get (or re-gain) control of your focus, efficiencyand also to manage stress, this book would be a worthwhile purchase.