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BUSINESS IS PERSONAL Mark Rifey
Lake View Healthcare Community
Habit Forming:
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What Do You Do Every Day?

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ABITS – AT LEAST THE GOOD ed by travel, family, daily life and their
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ones – tend to help us get big business as you and I, so they use these
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things done that we might oth- rituals, habits and so on to keep them on
erwise never accomplish.
track and doing the right things. It was
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book of one-page-per-day excerpts from Helping your staf with this can pro-
Peter Drucker’s books on business, man- duce massive leverage. If ive, 10 or 30
people start their day in a better, more COMPETITIVE
agement, entrepreneurism and leader-
PAY, REWARDING WORK!
ship – all 36 or so of them.
focused mindset – would that help your
business?
AA/EEO employer
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Why should you do something like
this?
THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!
What do you do now?
“HAVING A ROUTINE, A
Having a routine, a ritual or habit
RITUAL OR HABIT (CALL IT 1 STATION WEEKENDS
#(call it what you will) seems like a good
WHAT YOU WILL) SEEMS way to start the day. Not only does it go
well with cofee, but more importantly,
LIKE A GOOD WAY TO START it acts as a transition action that sig-
nals your mind that it’s time to switch
THE DAY. NOT ONLY DOES IT VOICE OF THE GRIZ-BRONCOS-WILDCATS
to “work mode” from “whatever you’ve
been doing that morning” mode.
GO WELL WITH COFFEE, BUT
This may not seem like a big deal, but
MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT ACTS think about your current morning rou-
tine. You get the kids of to school and/or
AS A TRANSITION ACTION.”
care for your pets, livestock, clean snow
and ice of the car and maybe you run
into someone on the way to work who
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is just now learning to drive. You know
BEYOND THE MORNING
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what I mean.

Daily habits go well beyond the The point is, while all of these things
morning routine. What else are you do- are going on, you’re really not in a prime
ing every day?
mental state for being productive. Your N
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Think about the most important staf isn’t either, if they’re going through U

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work you have to get done each week. this every day. It might take 30 minutes
Certainly, the “real work” you do – build- for your mind to settle down and get fo-
ing things, delivering product, installing GUN SHOW
cused after all that – even if your oice
systems or parts and providing service is at home.

– are the things that generate value for Over the years, I’ve learned that even
your customers, but (for example) the a brief minute or two to read and process
marketing of that work product is what what Drucker has for me that day (along
allows that work to ind a home.
with some java) are enough to reboot and
Has your marketing and sales efort refocus after the morning’s activities
established an important enough part of Formerly ROCKY MOUNTAIN PROMOTIONS
– no matter how hectic, stressful, an-
your day that something from this part noying, cold, wet or pleasant they might

of the business is done every single day?
have been. A distinct mindset shift point
What other parts of your business MISSOULA, MT
became useful at irst and later became a
merit daily, habitual attention? Are they regular part of my day.
getting it? Are they truly strategic or are JAN 25TH & 26TH
You don’t have to use the same tech-
they “what you’ve always done”?
nique, but if you check into the habits
MISSOULA of highly accomplished people, you will
IMPROVEMENT
ind that most of them have rituals, hab-
Be sure that your work habits include HILTON GARDEN INN its and the like that they perform on a
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personal development. It doesn’t matter daily basis.
ADMISSION
if you’re a butcher, baker or candlestick Many go through their ritual/habit
maker, much less an electrical engineer, process early in the morning before any- $6.00 PER PERSON
diesel mechanic or whatever – your busi- one “wants a piece of them.” Ever notice CHILDREN UNDER 12 FREE
ness is changing all the time. Keeping that no one wants an appointment with (MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT)
up is essential just to stay in the game. you, or a phone call with you at 5 a.m.?
Make “getting ahead” a habit as well.
While this may not be the easiest time of

That’s a little bit of the trick to read- day for you – it’s more than likely going VINTAGE RIFLES
ing Drucker. Not only is it a transition to be a time when no one but you will ask HAND GUNS • RIFLES
maker, it reines the strategic and man- SAT. 25TH 9AM-5PM something of you – even the kids.
agement thought process each day.
SUN. 26TH 9AM-3PM
These people are at least as distract-
KNIVES • AMMO AND
MUCH, MUCH

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