Wednesday, August 10, 2005


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The profit centers of our lives


Ok, so it takes me a while sometimes. I have understood the idea about creating profit centers within my practice for quite some time during the pursuit of a strong successful business. The idea being that one has to create several centers within the business that profit and can stand on their own within the business. It works of course as all successful business people know - you have to treat each area as a separate business and have a profit and loss statement for each area.

The same concept applies to the other parts of our lives besides our work or careers. Profit centers in family, social, financial, spiritual, mental, and physical as well as the career area need to be looked at this way. How different would we look at our family life if we created "profit centers" within the family and created systems that would make these areas be profitable and produce "Great Products" and cause them to be exchanged to the "Great products" that others in the family produce. I know it sound a little odd - but for someone like me that looks at everything like a business - it makes sense.

All of these areas need to be profitable in the way that they were intended to be profitable. The profit for family life would be harmony, love, companionship, happiness, pleasure, etc... you know all of the things that all of us want within our families.

The only way for this to work is to analyze each area and find out what the end profits for each area should be and make a plan to produce those in each. Building systems and communication structures to make successful "business" venture occur in each area is an interesting challenge.

I will let you know my progress. What do you think about it?