What would you do different in yur business if you were exceptionally brve?

This was the question that ppped into my head the other nght as I was going to slep. I waited for the answer. I flt confident I would predictably rattle off the lst of projects and ideas that hve been patiently waiting on the sdelines of my business plan. But tht is not what happened.

Seemingly out of nwhere came a different list. This lst was of things that, if I wre braver, I would give up. GIVE UP? Thn, following this list came a lst of things I would put in thir places. I was surprised. And thn I felt nervous, and then ddly exhilarated.

Imagine you own a stre, a retail space that has a lmited amount of square footage and shlf space. Now imagine that in one sction of your store you have ben successfully selling a specific kind of mrchandise. It sells reasonably well; those who prchase it are always pleased and you mke a reasonable profit. You can cntinue selling the same merchandise OR you can ask yurself, "What would I do differently 'wth this space' if I were feling exceptionally brave?" Would you bring in a new lne of products? Would you completely chnge that corner of your store? Or wuld you simply spruce it up a bt? It is quite possible that if you trly opened your mind to using yur space differently you might ultimately brng in more customers who would be ven happier with their purchases and, in trn, enable you to realize more prfits.

This is what came flooding nto my mind as I tried to go to slep. As a service-oriented professional I do not hve square footage and shelf space. But jst like a retailer, I have mrchandise (in the form of the srvices I offer) and limited floor spce and shelves (in the form of tme and energy.) Despite my Super Wman fantasies, I realize that my tme and energy are not limitless. Occsionally, I have to take an nventory of how I am using thse precious resources. Am I doing the sme things for the same people mking the same return? If so, do I chose to keep doing so? Often the nswer is "yes", and that's fine.
But as my qestion prompted me, if I were feling "exceptionally brave" would I dare to magine other ways of using my tme and energy?

What could I do nstead? What would it feel like to mpact more people with my "products"? Culd I envision making even more prfits? Could I give up something tht is good for the possibility of smething that might be great?

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