{"id":145,"date":"2010-02-10T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:44:59","slug":"its-like-baking-a-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s like baking a cake&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine baking a chocolate cake from scratch&#8230;you&#8217;ld need a few key ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate etc&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What would happen if you left out a key ingredient&#8230;say&#8230; flour?<\/p>\n<p>New business owners do this when they say &#8220;Coach, I&#8217;ll do everything you say EXCEPT&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leave out one thing = no cake, no business.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what would happen if you were to follow the <em>exact<\/em> recipe using<em> every<\/em> ingredient&#8230;only you preheated the oven with the eggs in it&#8230;and then went backwards and tried to mix the batter?<\/p>\n<p>New business owners do this when they go through all the training available on the first day, get overwhelmed and then do nothing.\u00a0 Right ingredients + incorrect sequence = no cake, no business.<\/p>\n<p>Now what would happen if you were to follow the <em>exact<\/em> recipe, using <em>every<\/em> ingredient, in the right sequence and then you added a cup of garlic?<\/p>\n<p>New business owners do this when they attempt to re-create the wheel and\/or listen to the &#8220;they says&#8221;&#8230;.ie add a cup of fear = no cake, no business.<\/p>\n<p>Most businesses already have a simple business plan, and all businesses start with simple ingredients like your WHY, your goals, your &#8220;Response-Ability&#8221; and a recipe that&#8217;s been used to create magnificent lifestyles.\u00a0 Follow the recipe, eat the cake, grow your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine baking a chocolate cake from scratch&#8230;you&#8217;ld need a few key ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate etc&#8230;. What would happen if you left out a key ingredient&#8230;say&#8230; flour? New business owners do this when they say &#8220;Coach, I&#8217;ll do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}