Great Ideas For Personalizes Notepads At Home And At The Office

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Personalized notepads are nice and useful things to have around the house or even at the office. They can help in a myriad of ways, from making mundane tasks easier to performing important things like marketing. If you are interested in making your own notepads, then there are a few notepad types that you can consider making. A lot of people are thinking of great notepad printing ideas out there for various uses. For your information, we are sharing the best ideas that we have found for personalized notepads

The family notepads:
One of the best and interesting notepad designs out there is the family notepad. These kinds of notepads usually are designed for the different kinds of common activities that households do. For example, there are the so called grocery list notepads for the house. These personalized notepads have designs that have "built in" checkboxes which you can tick off like a grocery list. Another example is the "Nanny" notepads which contain different fields which you can fill out as a reminder for your maid, nanny or babysitter.

These notepads also aren't typically left with just text. Other creative families even print notepads that have personal pictures of them. This makes the family notepads extra special giving a warm and personal feeling as they are used. In some cases, families and friends give each other these kinds of personal notepads as gifts to each other, just like custom greeting cards.


The office notepad:
Another great idea is the personalized office notepad. If you are a professional like a lawyer or doctor, printing out your own personalized office notepad is a good investment for your office or business. This kind of notepad typically will have the owner's name, contact number and signature printed on them. You can use them to write out memorandums and other notices for your employees. For your clients or customers, your custom notepads can be where you write down your business advice, or counsel to them, such as prescriptions, instructions and sometimes even fees and quotations.

Besides using the notepads for your day to day business though, you can also use your notepads as a way of promoting your business or practice. By giving away your custom personalized notepads as gifts to potential investors or clients, you are basically giving them an extra business card. In this case, it will turn out to be a very useful kind of business reminder since he or she can use it for their own note taking uses. Every time they write a note in your notepads, there will be a chance that they will remember you and avail of your services.

As you can see, there are plenty of great ideas for the use of personalized notepads your home or in the office. Some uses are quite fun and engaging, while the others are very utilitarian and quite interesting. What will your notepad be like? You can choose to design something like the ones explained above, or you can go a totally different route and design your own notepad for different purposes. The real limit to notepad printing design is just your imagination.

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What Leads to Business Bondage?

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Many owners/managers feel like a prisoner to their business, employees and customers. What are the common causes of such business owner bondage? How do the chains get tighter and tighter?

After working with hundreds of business owners, we believe the following five to be the most common causes of business imprisonment: (1) technical tendencies, (2) busyness, (3) ineffective leadership and delegation, (4) inadequate or missing business systems, and (5) growing business complexities.

Habits determine destiny. Too many entrepreneurs are former technicians now masquerading as owners. They think they are entrepreneurs, but they don't act that way. As once accomplished technicians, they have a hard time letting go of such expertise and familiarity. They remain trapped in a technical comfort zone, mindset and work approach. Sadly, such technical expertise is insufficient for managing a business. Moreover, they fail to develop the visionary, strategic, and leadership skills necessary to run a successful business.

Many owners confuse activity with accomplishment. They confuse busyness with results. Hard work with smart work. Perspiration with purpose. Efficiency (doing things right) with effectiveness (doing the right things). Instead of working smarter, many owners hold tight to the delusion that working harder and harder is the solution. They keep trying to shift into higher and higher gears. The more the business grows, the harder they work, the more imprisoned they become. No matter how much energy you expend, however, wrong strategies inevitably lead to poor results – less freedom and more headaches. It is like trying to catch fish in a pond with your bare hands. No matter how many hours you work or how deep you wade, a poor strategy leads to poor results – no fish dinner!

Far too many small business owners are by default small leaders. Instead of leadership, they excel at doer-ship. They are micromanagers that like to touch and control everything. They trust no one but themselves. They believe "no one does it as well as me". They seldom delegate, if at all. They mistake such busyness for business leadership. Instead of thinking and leading like owners, most think and behave like employees. Instead of reflecting and planning, they excel at sweating and doing. They act like they have a job instead of owning a business. To lead effectively, one must trust others. Not developing their leadership potential costs them dearly.

A vast majority of owners don't know how to design a new business or re-engineer an existing one to be more systems-oriented and professionally equipped with plans, procedures and policies. As a result, entrepreneurs don't create and document the processes (specific and repeatable ways to do something), procedures and policies that allow for well organized, smoothly running, easier-to-manage companies. Without defining and documenting the specific work that needs to be done, owners can't delegate effectively and eventually remove themselves from their technical roles. As a result, owners are forever feeling "out of control". Tragically, most entrepreneurs have unknowingly, reactively and accidentally created an owner-centered and owner-dependent company. They are trapped!

A growing business with its increasing number of customers, transactions and problems will eventually crush a business not properly designed and prepared to handle such growth. Without effective leadership and adequate business systems (an integrated web of processes), a growing company does not stand a chance. Growing pains are unavoidable. Producing predictable and consistent results will be nearly impossible. By failing to plan for growth, you are by default planning to fail.

Busyness, technical bias, poor delegation, inadequate leadership and business systems, and the growing complexities of a business lead to a life sentence of working on the chain gang – your company. Fortunately, our coaching processes, along with your willingness to change, can serve as your "get out of jail free card". We can help you to escape the blues and the tyranny of technical busyness. You will no longer have to be the jack-of-all-trades for your company. Growing pains will subside. You will learn to be master, not servant. You will learn to lead more and work less. You will learn to shape your company by design, not by default.

Daniel M. Murphy is the Co-Founder and President of The Growth Coach, who is committed to re-educating and re-focusing business owners to lead more, work less, and enjoy greater freedom, financial success and happiness.

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