{"id":5083,"date":"2019-11-14T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2019-11-13T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:58:07","slug":"does-your-business-grow-or-shrink-during-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/does-your-business-grow-or-shrink-during-holiday-season","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Business Grow Or Shrink During \u201cHoliday Season\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you hear yourself saying things like \u201cI can\u2019t market\nduring the holidays,\u201d or \u201cmy business is slow during the holidays,\u201d or\n\u201ceverybody takes off the week of Christmas and New Year\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/face-66317_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5084\" width=\"229\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/face-66317_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/face-66317_960_720-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/face-66317_960_720-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you surprised to see the new year has arrived each year and\nfeel like you\u2019re not ready for it or are you prepared and ready to launch into another\namazing year on January 2<sup>nd<\/sup>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tell ourselves all sorts of things to justify our\nactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, sometimes we just need to shift our Paradigm(s) to move\nto where we want to be. In other words, we just need to think things out for\nourselves instead of buying into the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about it for a minute\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026do you believe things just because \u201csomebody\u201d else told you\nor you heard somebody else say it? As opposed to the information being there\nbecause you know it to be true \u2013 for yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might think people won\u2019t pay certain fees. You might\nthink continuity programs aren\u2019t right for your business\u2026or that they aren\u2019t\nsuccessful anymore because they\u2019re a thing of the past.&nbsp; The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about how many things we now take for granted in our\nlives that didn\u2019t exist even 10 years ago. When I was in college a computer\ntook up an entire room. Now, we all have them sitting on our desks, in our\nhomes, and we carry them in briefcases\u2026and in our pockets, purses, and on our\nbelts \u2013 in the form of smartphones. That\u2019s just one small example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fractal-1812490_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5085\" width=\"169\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fractal-1812490_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fractal-1812490_960_720-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fractal-1812490_960_720-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I\u2019m really challenging you to do is to think for yourself. And, more importantly to challenge your own thinking and that of others. Make your own decisions and discover the \u201creal truth\u201d for yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, just because something works, or doesn\u2019t work for\nsomebody else, doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t work for you. And, just because something\nworked, or didn\u2019t work, for you once, doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t work now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try things. Think for yourself. <br>\n<br>\nBe your own person.&nbsp; Challenge the status\nquo\u2026and everything others say and everything you currently think\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026And, watch as 2020 becomes your best year yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hear yourself saying things like \u201cI can\u2019t market during the holidays,\u201d or \u201cmy business is slow during the holidays,\u201d or \u201ceverybody takes off the week of Christmas and New Year\u2019s?\u201d Are you surprised to see the new year has arrived each year and feel like you\u2019re not ready for it or are you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/does-your-business-grow-or-shrink-during-holiday-season\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[29,215,941,13,10,30,708,610,943,939,942,940],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-strategy","tag-business","tag-business-success","tag-challenge-the-status-quo","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-articles-marketing","tag-new-year","tag-new-year-new-beginnings","tag-paradigm","tag-paradigm-shift","tag-status-quo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}