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Our Starvation Survival Response - Success Routine.
McKinney, TX. July 25, 2017
In the wild, two animals come across the paths of each other. They size each other up to determine threat or prey, their survival instincts force them to decide…do I feed and/or defend , do I survive to live another day or do I die from hunger tomorrow. It is an instinct of limited resources, where if you do not seize or defend your meal of opportunity today, your competition will, and will continue to absorb that opportunity at your expense each day thereafter until you parish from starvation or defend your survival. It is what I call the Starvation Survival Response.
The unfortunate manner of such encounters in American business is, our mentality often follows a similar pattern. I often say to make that initial success as a new business owner, sheer force of will is the most important attribute that will get you to a level past survival mode. We should wake up each morning with the sense of urgency, in a Starvation Survival Response mode that implies feed or famine. It will be what drives you through tough times, it is the action as fuel that fulfills what so many refer to these days as, “your Why”. If you have a “Why”, know this is your “How” that gets you to your goal. In short, it is the way you get leverage on yourself to act with progress and effort each day towards your objective – purpose – – plan… it is the fuel for your journey that gets you to your “point B” - your destination.
To me this is one of the success routines that becomes the single most important element for the self-employed I can think of today. Using this Starvation Survival Response mentality (and as our metaphor), your meal in American business is cash flow, your sales, your revenues. No sales no business, at best you have an expensive hobby. In business, cash flow is your daily meal, you either feast or die. Simple as that…
The unfortunate thing for the self-employed is because they have focused this Starvation Survival Response mentality successfully in the past, it becomes a learned response for every encounter to successfully navigate their activities each day. However, it is this very thing that can defy their growth to new and higher levels in business. Too often people meet in American business where their initial contact becomes very binary. They consider …is this person, predator or prey? Is this someone I must defend against or feast upon as my Starvation Survival Response?
But the best answer is much less binary. Do not take this in the wrong context, if we do not follow and understand this Starvation Survival Response as our initial instinct, we will become prey to someone else’s ambitions at some point. But don’t stop there like so many people do, because the answer is not always fight or flight either. You must allow the encounter to evolve to a higher mental capacity.
Once that binary competitive encounter has played out and boundaries of conflict established, your next level of prosperity comes in the ability to move from an instinct of limited resources, to a visibility of abundance. Somehow holstering the guns of competition and eye to eye confrontation to a posture that is more side by side in nature. Setting a mentality of alignment so you can leverage the efforts of two for success that becomes an abundance factored by a synergy and multiplier greater than 2!
McKinney, TX. July 25, 2017
In the wild, two animals come across the paths of each other. They size each other up to determine threat or prey, their survival instincts force them to decide…do I feed and/or defend , do I survive to live another day or do I die from hunger tomorrow. It is an instinct of limited resources, where if you do not seize or defend your meal of opportunity today, your competition will, and will continue to absorb that opportunity at your expense each day thereafter until you parish from starvation or defend your survival. It is what I call the Starvation Survival Response.
The unfortunate manner of such encounters in American business is, our mentality often follows a similar pattern. I often say to make that initial success as a new business owner, sheer force of will is the most important attribute that will get you to a level past survival mode. We should wake up each morning with the sense of urgency, in a Starvation Survival Response mode that implies feed or famine. It will be what drives you through tough times, it is the action as fuel that fulfills what so many refer to these days as, “your Why”. If you have a “Why”, know this is your “How” that gets you to your goal. In short, it is the way you get leverage on yourself to act with progress and effort each day towards your objective – purpose – – plan… it is the fuel for your journey that gets you to your “point B” - your destination.
To me this is one of the success routines that becomes the single most important element for the self-employed I can think of today. Using this Starvation Survival Response mentality (and as our metaphor), your meal in American business is cash flow, your sales, your revenues. No sales no business, at best you have an expensive hobby. In business, cash flow is your daily meal, you either feast or die. Simple as that…
The unfortunate thing for the self-employed is because they have focused this Starvation Survival Response mentality successfully in the past, it becomes a learned response for every encounter to successfully navigate their activities each day. However, it is this very thing that can defy their growth to new and higher levels in business. Too often people meet in American business where their initial contact becomes very binary. They consider …is this person, predator or prey? Is this someone I must defend against or feast upon as my Starvation Survival Response?
But the best answer is much less binary. Do not take this in the wrong context, if we do not follow and understand this Starvation Survival Response as our initial instinct, we will become prey to someone else’s ambitions at some point. But don’t stop there like so many people do, because the answer is not always fight or flight either. You must allow the encounter to evolve to a higher mental capacity.
Once that binary competitive encounter has played out and boundaries of conflict established, your next level of prosperity comes in the ability to move from an instinct of limited resources, to a visibility of abundance. Somehow holstering the guns of competition and eye to eye confrontation to a posture that is more side by side in nature. Setting a mentality of alignment so you can leverage the efforts of two for success that becomes an abundance factored by a synergy and multiplier greater than 2!
-Merger - GDS Data Solutions, Data View Property Investors
McKinney, TX. August 03, 2016.
Just two short months since the ribbon cutting for GDS Data Solutions. The company is now merged under a single identifying brand: Data View Investors. The owner explains it this way... GDS was targeted into the small and medium sized business industry providing data services and data solutions for growth. Data View Property Investors was focused on real estate investment opportunities as a business growth strategy for invest-able cash and cash flow solutions. But as business development goes, value to this market is more tangibly recognized where products and services appeal to the owners entrepreneur spirit and personal drive. The Data View Investors platform provides that environment. Tangible products, services, and investments, that can exist in our unique data oriented solutions as conversation for growth.
McKinney, TX. August 03, 2016.
Just two short months since the ribbon cutting for GDS Data Solutions. The company is now merged under a single identifying brand: Data View Investors. The owner explains it this way... GDS was targeted into the small and medium sized business industry providing data services and data solutions for growth. Data View Property Investors was focused on real estate investment opportunities as a business growth strategy for invest-able cash and cash flow solutions. But as business development goes, value to this market is more tangibly recognized where products and services appeal to the owners entrepreneur spirit and personal drive. The Data View Investors platform provides that environment. Tangible products, services, and investments, that can exist in our unique data oriented solutions as conversation for growth.
Small Business Strategies - Real Estate for Non real estate businesses.
McKinney TX. July 31, 2016.
If “Location…” is the single most important feature in the real estate world, what would be the same parallel battle cry for small and medium sized businesses……? Well that will have to be – “Cash Flow…” Says Griffith, “I have been in the business world for on the plus side of 30 years, working for the largest of financial institutions to the smallest of startup niche enterprise ideas, without cash flow you have nothing, from a business standpoint! Even the best of ideas and products stuffed in the back corner of your hobby closet or garage are wasted if not exposed to the market as a product or service from which someone can be introduced to the idea of exchanging their money for your product or service.”
Once you solve for the Cash Flow equation, the next step is to protect and build valuation for your business from your cash flow success.
Most of us do this more or less naturally by going out and buying a home to live in, or up-scaling to a larger home. Then maybe the business owners are successful for the better part of their business career and what are they left with…? Well, watching and seeing this scenario play out over the years, you find successful small business owners whose business stops when they stop, working in the business. What you are left with is any remaining value as wealth is in the house they bought to live in so many years prior.
The wealth as value was driven by cash flow from a successful business effort, but can (or should) the successful business owner stop everything, becoming a full time real estate investor….? Well, in a word, No. But it does illustrate that small business owners do need to include and build valuation as wealth in their overall business strategy.
This is why GDS Data Solutions offers a comprehensive Real Estate solution for their clients. This is not a Guru, “set it and forget” seminar course. We are offering a learning solution that changes your mindset from effort, task, or even purpose to ...strategic solution as an extension of your existing business success.
Three packages range in price from $2000 to $20,000. One of the first editions from the program is the “Tax and Legal” segments. Says Griffith, “…this learning module alone can pay for your program cost in the first year, align income into a favorable environment, and improve your overall capital return rate. This is all before you have even implemented your first purchase strategy. …Now that is cash flow as ROI!”
McKinney TX. July 31, 2016.
If “Location…” is the single most important feature in the real estate world, what would be the same parallel battle cry for small and medium sized businesses……? Well that will have to be – “Cash Flow…” Says Griffith, “I have been in the business world for on the plus side of 30 years, working for the largest of financial institutions to the smallest of startup niche enterprise ideas, without cash flow you have nothing, from a business standpoint! Even the best of ideas and products stuffed in the back corner of your hobby closet or garage are wasted if not exposed to the market as a product or service from which someone can be introduced to the idea of exchanging their money for your product or service.”
Once you solve for the Cash Flow equation, the next step is to protect and build valuation for your business from your cash flow success.
Most of us do this more or less naturally by going out and buying a home to live in, or up-scaling to a larger home. Then maybe the business owners are successful for the better part of their business career and what are they left with…? Well, watching and seeing this scenario play out over the years, you find successful small business owners whose business stops when they stop, working in the business. What you are left with is any remaining value as wealth is in the house they bought to live in so many years prior.
The wealth as value was driven by cash flow from a successful business effort, but can (or should) the successful business owner stop everything, becoming a full time real estate investor….? Well, in a word, No. But it does illustrate that small business owners do need to include and build valuation as wealth in their overall business strategy.
This is why GDS Data Solutions offers a comprehensive Real Estate solution for their clients. This is not a Guru, “set it and forget” seminar course. We are offering a learning solution that changes your mindset from effort, task, or even purpose to ...strategic solution as an extension of your existing business success.
Three packages range in price from $2000 to $20,000. One of the first editions from the program is the “Tax and Legal” segments. Says Griffith, “…this learning module alone can pay for your program cost in the first year, align income into a favorable environment, and improve your overall capital return rate. This is all before you have even implemented your first purchase strategy. …Now that is cash flow as ROI!”
Ribbon Cutting - GDS Data Solutions
McKinney, TX. May 31, 2016
Today, marked the official ribbon cutting for GDS Data Solutions as a member of the McKinney Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony was held at the Werx In McKinney and included a short statement as comments for those in attendance. Here is a transcript that served as a basis for those comments and is titled:
"How Do You Begin?".
How do you begin, with your new business, project or idea? Well, it may start something like this…. if I were to ask most people like you to name your company for your new idea, most would have an answer in pretty short order, if not immediately. And so it will be, at that very moment, that your new business will be born. But the real story is this, our example illustrates a interesting idea that I have…. we all have a business idea, product, or service stored way in the back of our minds wanting to get out.
The same is true for existing business owners and leaders, if I asked them if they have any ideas or concepts about growing their business to a new level, most in pretty short order would have some degree of “elevator pitch” towards a plan as potential.
But at the end of the day, while plenty of people are willing to make that leap for potential, most do not include a plan for gaining leverage on what is the most important asset that will exist in their business today, their data. They do not have a plan for leveraging their data.
The reason that is important to you is the same reason it is important for us…. It is a basic and fundamental concept for any successful business. There are only 2 rules as jobs here that exist as potential for GDS Data Solutions, We are either providing: Data solutions for growth, or Data services for companies. Here is the reason why:
Those in need of data services already have activated some amount of leverage on their data. And so their effort becomes a statistical equation…. a + b +c = revenues/results. Where ever revenues fall as a statistical value and relative to your expectations, the “reason why or how” that revenue number comes to that value, can be uncovered by examining the left side of that equation. If not, then we need to go back to rule number one; what are your data solutions for growth.
… Discovering that concept, is how we officially launch as a business today.
McKinney, TX. May 31, 2016
Today, marked the official ribbon cutting for GDS Data Solutions as a member of the McKinney Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony was held at the Werx In McKinney and included a short statement as comments for those in attendance. Here is a transcript that served as a basis for those comments and is titled:
"How Do You Begin?".
How do you begin, with your new business, project or idea? Well, it may start something like this…. if I were to ask most people like you to name your company for your new idea, most would have an answer in pretty short order, if not immediately. And so it will be, at that very moment, that your new business will be born. But the real story is this, our example illustrates a interesting idea that I have…. we all have a business idea, product, or service stored way in the back of our minds wanting to get out.
The same is true for existing business owners and leaders, if I asked them if they have any ideas or concepts about growing their business to a new level, most in pretty short order would have some degree of “elevator pitch” towards a plan as potential.
But at the end of the day, while plenty of people are willing to make that leap for potential, most do not include a plan for gaining leverage on what is the most important asset that will exist in their business today, their data. They do not have a plan for leveraging their data.
The reason that is important to you is the same reason it is important for us…. It is a basic and fundamental concept for any successful business. There are only 2 rules as jobs here that exist as potential for GDS Data Solutions, We are either providing: Data solutions for growth, or Data services for companies. Here is the reason why:
Those in need of data services already have activated some amount of leverage on their data. And so their effort becomes a statistical equation…. a + b +c = revenues/results. Where ever revenues fall as a statistical value and relative to your expectations, the “reason why or how” that revenue number comes to that value, can be uncovered by examining the left side of that equation. If not, then we need to go back to rule number one; what are your data solutions for growth.
… Discovering that concept, is how we officially launch as a business today.
Business Owner Skills and Experience Bring Agile Results
McKinney, TX. April 25, 2016
While GDS Data Solutions may be a new name in the McKinney/Dallas area, the owner is a business analyst and data specialist, with over 30 years business experience. Not just data experience but advanced skills, knowledge, and success lessons across a broad spectrum of business operations. This gives his clients someone with a unique, global, and agile ability to apply these skills and abilities across a wide range of industries, businesses, and markets for his clients and customers.
Says Bill, " so many businesses and projects are built around subject matter experts from very focused disciplines. You often can lose progress as communications slow with varying priorities. Technology will have great depths of knowledge for building the codes and structure. Executives usually have intimate knowledge and visibility towards their company success plans. Then include in the various operational resources and management functions as people who run the daily aspects of the business, and you can quickly find communications breakdowns that interrupt important progress."
In the context of the conversations, all have important view points but what is needed is an agile and unique experience that provides and facilitates the progress by merging all the needed agenda from all the subject matter experts into a focused road map of priority.
McKinney, TX. April 25, 2016
While GDS Data Solutions may be a new name in the McKinney/Dallas area, the owner is a business analyst and data specialist, with over 30 years business experience. Not just data experience but advanced skills, knowledge, and success lessons across a broad spectrum of business operations. This gives his clients someone with a unique, global, and agile ability to apply these skills and abilities across a wide range of industries, businesses, and markets for his clients and customers.
Says Bill, " so many businesses and projects are built around subject matter experts from very focused disciplines. You often can lose progress as communications slow with varying priorities. Technology will have great depths of knowledge for building the codes and structure. Executives usually have intimate knowledge and visibility towards their company success plans. Then include in the various operational resources and management functions as people who run the daily aspects of the business, and you can quickly find communications breakdowns that interrupt important progress."
In the context of the conversations, all have important view points but what is needed is an agile and unique experience that provides and facilitates the progress by merging all the needed agenda from all the subject matter experts into a focused road map of priority.
About Us:
Data View Investors specializes in Assets Under Management for their own portfolio performance objectives, investment opportunity analysis for both internal acquisitions and as client advisors , and project based business development consulting.
The owner has 30 years experience in the business world since he graduated with his degree in business. An ex-banker, he spent the last 10 years in the mortgage servicing industry as an operations analyst, for the default mortgage servicing unit of one of the largest banking institutions in the country. During that time he acted as a data sources Subject Matter Expert for Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Deed In Lieu, and Short Sale processes.
In 2002, he was a licensed mortgage Loan Officer, specializing in client credit analysis, automated underwriting submissions, and lead generation for sales opportunities as an independent loan officer for a local mortgage broker. In the 1990's held a Real Estate license and ran his own small residential real estate portfolio as a property management business, SaraCain Properties.
Today he leverages this fusion of experience and knowledge to introduce data oriented solutions as key performance and growth opportunities for his company and clients.
The owner has 30 years experience in the business world since he graduated with his degree in business. An ex-banker, he spent the last 10 years in the mortgage servicing industry as an operations analyst, for the default mortgage servicing unit of one of the largest banking institutions in the country. During that time he acted as a data sources Subject Matter Expert for Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Deed In Lieu, and Short Sale processes.
In 2002, he was a licensed mortgage Loan Officer, specializing in client credit analysis, automated underwriting submissions, and lead generation for sales opportunities as an independent loan officer for a local mortgage broker. In the 1990's held a Real Estate license and ran his own small residential real estate portfolio as a property management business, SaraCain Properties.
Today he leverages this fusion of experience and knowledge to introduce data oriented solutions as key performance and growth opportunities for his company and clients.
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