Resources Vs Resourcefulness

8 WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH FEWER RESOURCES.

HOW CAN YOU BE SUCCESSFUL WITH FEW RESOURCES? HERE ARE 8 IDEAS

1. CLARIFY CLARIFY CLARIFY YOUR VISION.

So what you want is to be able to work on a product that would go to market. What you need is clarity of your vision and what you want to build. You need to know what you need, how much you will need to go to market .What kind of work will be expected from you and your team. How many people you will need. How long it would take to get you there. When will you ship your product? How will you know it’s successful?

You need to clarify your vision as much as you can so that you can be laser focused on what you want to do now.

2. LOCK YOURSELF INTO A SHORT TERM STRATEGIC PLAN

Things are going to change rapidly, but you want to lock yourself into a short term strategic plan, whereby, you are executing on a small thing. And getting a small piece of success. You want to be very bullish on that, so that, nothing takes away your focus on your small short term strategic goal. Not other demands of the business, not the uncertainty of the market, not limitation of resources of whatever other problem exists.

The way I am envisioning this, is, of course you have your vision. But you want to really know how your small goal and target looks like and go after it. Find ways of getting it, and change course along the way.

It is indeed a hard but effective strategy, since, you can only be able to do one thing well, because of your limited resources. That thing should be to bring in money aka sales.

3. EMBRACE A PROBLEM SOLVING ATTITUDE.

Consider everything that you experience in business as a problem that could be solved. It could either be solved through knowing what to do and acting on it, or finding out. With the internet. We basically can figure everything we need to get started on our problems. The other thing, is, there is probably a different solution to a problem. If you cannot do a hard solution, you can purchase a cheap solution to the problem. E.g if I want to get a website to do business with, I could either take two months and build it from scratch, or I could purchase a template online and build upon it. I can go to market immediately. Rather than wait 3 months. If you can pay money to solve your problems, then do you really have a problem?

4. LEARN A NEW SKILL(S)

Since you are going to solve your problem with limited resources, you might not be able to hire a professional. What you can do, is learn a new skill, and use this skill to build it into the organization. With every level of complexity, you learn and track new skills that you are learning and utilizing. Skills have a compounding effect, plus, no one will ever take it away from you.

5. USE TECHNOLOGY TO LOWER THE OVER-HEAD

Find ways to use technology and computers to make work easier. If you can write a software to do your job, you are halfway into being able to execute on your ideas. You might also just buy software that cuts all your time in half, does a better, cleaner job.

6. ASK FOR HELP

You can go much further in life if you just decided to ask for help instead of doing it all by ourselves. I realize this can be a hard skill to have but if you can learn the skill of asking for help without being needy and over demanding, you can get a lot done in your organization or life.

This might look like, learning to communicate, learning to ask for collaboration, openly talking about the subject matter so that anyone interested might buy in or not.

7. & TRADE THAT WITH SOMETHING YOU HAVE. (every body has got something to trade)

Offer people who you require help from something in return. Do not ask without giving back. It might be your time, something you own that they don’t have! If you have an office or a building, you might let them use it for a while as they get on their feet.

It’s an interesting experiment to consider just what it is you have that other people don’t have and might benefit from you.

8. RETHINK WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE INFLUENCE

You are more than your job title, you are more than the amount of money you make or what you earn in a month. I think this is one of the biggest lessons I have learned in the last two years, and I will definitely write more about it.

Having influence is deeper than that. It is your network. People who know you. Customers who enjoy your product. Church friends, Resources other people who know you own.

You can have access to so much more in life if you rethink your influence, and remove your position( status) or money in the equation. There is so much contribution to be made in the process that, you can get all your ideas done on few resources.

These are a few tools that have worked for me, and I think about them a lot time to time. I hope they can get you started on a journey to unlocking the potential that you have, and getting your dreams done on fewer resources.