Kundun Consulting

I spend day after day giving advice - and being paid well for it!

Personally I really don’t care whether a client listens to my advice and uses it or not. I find it frustrating that I have worked pretty hard to provide the guidance which I believe is the best solution to their issue. Sometimes I even promise myself to move that client on - as they obviously wouldn’t know good advice if it jumped up and bit them on the posterior!.

And then i realise that sometimes my advice is used as a clarification of what the client is already thinking. They are asking me to support their own proposition - i.e. to prove that they are right.

And I understand that this is sometimes the best advice that I give.

I would never presume to know my clients business better than they do. I may know more about the real estate industry per se` but I would never know more about a real estate business in Sunbury where a client has been working for the last fifteen years.

The point being is that the advice that you pay for is not always the best advice.

Sometimes your own advice - that has been clarified - is more relevant to your decision than any advice that a trusted advisor can provide.

There is however a line that you must draw to ensure that you are treating the advice correctly. If passion overtakes common sense and good business practice then you may need a reality check. Ignoring advice is not what you should ever do - whether paid or otherwise. The most successful businesses that I have come across utilise the services of a range of associates to bounce ideas off. Never believe that you are alone. There are many people out there willing to assist you with your issues - as you will be able to assist them with there’s.

Take the time to strengthen your netwrok and en>sure that you use it effectively - this also means giving something back to them.

I was reminded of a Winston Churcill saying today which I had forgotten but which I have always found very sound.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!”

Good advice and great people go hand in hand - make sure that you take and give and your business operations and your personal growth will benefit exponentially..