Personal Goals Advance Your Business Goals

This blog post is longer than my normal post. Read it through to fully see its importance. I convey the idea that personal goal setting has broad and positive implications in your life. Work toward your goals with positive enthusiastic energy. You will be rewarded.

Choose Your Goals Carefully

Personal goals advance your business goals. I’d like to share a perfect example of the way a seemingly unrelated personal goal will greatly advance your business goals.

In January, I outlined my goals for this year. I wrote a blog post briefly discussing the idea of goal setting at the beginning of a new year. I am a strong believer in making goals. WITHOUT A GOAL YOU CANNOT SCORE.

I am a strong believer in writing goals down on paper.
I am a strong believer in writing the reasons behind the goals.
I am a strong believer in plotting courses to achieve the goals.

Writing goals down on paper establishes a physical connection to your goals. The physical act of holding a pen in your hand and writing a goal on paper causes a physical investment on your part. Have you heard the term “you must have skin in the game”? Writing your goals on paper is the first part of having “skin in the game.” The goal is not just a passing thought if you make the effort to write it down.

Second; writing down a REASON for the goal helps you establish a “bigger picture” of the goal. For example; if your goal is to start your own business, you might write down that you want to start your own business to have more money for retirement. The idea of more money for retirement supports your efforts of starting your own business.

Third; plotting a course gives you a direction to travel in attaining your goals. You cannot begin a journey without having an initial course. Likewise, you cannot start a business without an initial business plan or business model. Yes, your course will change and you will make adjustments along the journey but you MUST have a course to travel before you start.

As I shared in an earlier blog posting, my goals for this year included:

1) Do a better job researching and exploring cemeteries.
2) Learn about the culture of cemetery care in every cemetery I visit.
3) Improve my ability to travel so I can visit cemeteries in a wide range of geographic locations.

Anyone who reads this blog and keeps up with my Cemetery Exploration channel on YouTube knows that I love being on the water. As you might have seen in some of my Cemetery Exploration Videos, I use my abilities of sailing, power boating, and kayaking to visit hard to reach cemeteries and cemeteries in foreign lands.

When I developed my goals for this year, I tried to develop a method by which I could increase my skills on the water and put those skills to use in my cemetery research. I did this through education. In the first quarter of this year, I completed a 56 hour licensing course on becoming a ship’s captain. Now, I will admit that a 56 hour course, by itself, does not give me the ability to captain a large vessel. However, having my Captain’s License improves my knowledge and increases my ability to travel on such vessels.

I’m happy to announce that I passed all my exams and I am currently awaiting final paperwork for my Captain’s License.

Here’s the beautiful part:

a friend of a friend who knows I have earned my Captain’s License needs help moving a large sailing vessel from Key West, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina next week. Because of the Captain’s License I earned this year, I have been invited to work as crew during this trip.

Now, how does this relate to cemetery research? Well, Key West, Florida and Charleston, South Carolina have amazing cemeteries. The cemetery in Key West has hundreds of fantastic tombstones and I will be able to study the care that is given to them under the harsh south Florida sunshine. The innumerable cemeteries of Charleston require special care of their own. Those cemeteries are packed into nooks and crannies of Charleston’s small church yards.

This opportunity of sailing from Key West, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina and having the ability to visit the cemeteries in each of those towns would not have presented itself if I hadn’t been active in advancing my education of driving boats.

The Law of Intended Consequences

When I wrote down my goal to “improve my ability to travel so I can visit cemeteries in a wide range of geographic locations” I looked for a skill that I already possessed (sailing) and thought about how I could use that skill to increase my ability to visit cemeteries. I had no idea earning my Captain’s License would pay such quick dividends. I could not have envisioned that improving a skill I already possessed would allow me to study cemeteries in two fantastic towns within one month of completing the Captain’s License exams. However, I knew that working hard to earn a Captain’s License would present unimagined opportunities. I believe the Universe works that way….I believe when you work hard and put your energy into work that you love, you are rewarded with unforeseen opportunities.

So, I’ll ask YOU:

What are your goals for this year?

Just because it’s not January anymore does not mean your goals are at a Dead End.

Grave Care is a Rewarding Business Model

The pages of this website describe the Grave Care Business Course designed to help entrepreneurs start and grow their own Grave Care Businesses. I love cemeteries and I know there are other people who share my love of cemeteries and want to start a small business doing what they love. Grave Care is a rewarding business. Your clients will be very grateful that you are caring for their loved-ones’ precious grave sites. They will be happy to pay you good money to do work you enjoy. This is a great business and right now is a perfect time to start your own Grave Care Business.

If you have already read the Grave Care Business Course description and are ready to purchase, you can click the “Buy Now” link below and we will ship that right out to you via priority mail. If you need some more time, please feel free to look through this website for a full description of the material. Feel free to ask us questions via our Contact Form. We love cemeteries and are always happy to help.

Thank you:
Keith
www.GraveCareBusiness.com

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Dash Camera helps Grave Care Business

In my grave care activities, I am always looking for techniques and technologies helpful to grave care business owners.

The newest piece of technology I’ve implemented in my business is a dash camera. Watch the video below to see how it helps me with my cemetery explorations.

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Grave Care for Autumn and Winter 2014

autumn_mausoleum_cemetery — Grave Care this autumn will keep your business clients happy.

Grave Care in October, November, and December will make money for your business and keep your grave care clients happy.

Autumn is in full swing and grave care clients are mainly interested in Autumn Cemetery Cleanup, Tombstone Cleaning, Pre-Winterization Services, and Floral Grave Decorations for the upcoming holiday season.

September and October are behind us now and the warm early autumn days are slowly turning to blustery chilly afternoons as the sun dips lower on the horizon and winter approaches steadily. Still, even as the days become shorter, there is plenty of work to do in your local cemetery. We like to think of November as a breathing period before a very busy December making sure family gravesites are fully prepared for the holidays of December.

It is fun leaving a cemetery full of well maintained gravesites.

When families come to visit for the holidays, they are excited to see their loved-ones’ grave plots well cared for and they are able to pay their respects with a clear conscience that they have honored their family’s memories and done their part to maintain the respect their loved-ones deserve.

If you have ever thought about starting a Grave Care Business, our company has produced a comprehensive Grave Care Business Course designed to help you start and grow your own Grave Care Business. We offer 3 course levels and believe you will be very pleased with the amount of information, instruction, tutorials, video training, and business tools.

Please click this link: to learn more and to order the Grave Care Business Course.

Let us know if you have questions concerning the grave care course.
We love cemeteries and are always happy to help.

Grave Care Business – Work Van

Grave Care Work Van — A functional work vehicle will increase the money you make in your business.

Grave Care Business – a versatile business vehicle will help you make more money in your grave care business.

Hi Everyone:

I added a new Grave Care Business work van last month.

This van has already positively improved my effectiveness working in cemeteries. If you are thinking about starting your own Grave Care Business, proper vehicle selection will help your business run smoother and more profitably.

Functionality is one of the reasons I chose this van. In addition to professional appearance and proper service, the work van adds functionality to my business. Last week, I had a small landscaping job and the van proved its functionality. This job included hauling and spreading straw over a newly landscaped plot. Straw provides erosion control. I was not driving my company’s work truck when I needed the straw. So, instead of heading back to the office for the work truck, I simply stowed the seats in the back of the van and loaded the straw through the rear hatch.

Grave Care Business owners often have the need for functional vehicles. We often carry straw, tomb stone cleaning materials, or floral decorations. Owning a functional and versatile business vehicle greatly improves effectiveness in business operations.

Have you ever thought about starting your own grave care business? Whether you want to provide plot maintenance, tombstone cleaning, or other grave care services, our professionally produced Grave Care Business Course will help you start & grow your own Grave Care Business.

For more information on the course, please visit our main website by clicking this link:

Grave Care Business

Grave Care – Business Vehicle Selection

Hi All:

Keith here from GraveCareBusiness.com

Proper vehicle selection for your Grave Care Business will make a huge difference in the functioning and profitability of your business. Our Grave Care Business Instruction Course includes a Vehicle Buyer’s Guidebook to help you choose the correct vehicle for your business.

The correct business vehicle does not have to cost a lot of money. In fact, we outline great strategies in acquiring a great affordable business vehicle that will bring in more money for your business than it costs.

As part of our regular podcast, I filmed this quick segment to introduce the idea of proper business vehicle selection for people who are performing grave care, cemetery plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning:

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We are passionate about cemeteries and are always happy to help you start your own Grave Care Business

Keith

Springtime in a Cemetery – Vernal Equinox 2014

spring cemetery — The exact moment of springtime – 2014

The exact moment of the Vernal Equinox in a cemetery – March 20, 2014.

Hi everyone. I just want to quickly jump online and write a short note. According to the great website www.TimeAndDate.com the Vernal Equinox happened at 12:57 PM today March 20, 2014.

I happened to be in a cemetery at that moment and took this picture. The grass is still a bit brown but trees are flowering and birds are chirping as the sun’s apparent location in the sky heads northward. Though there’s still a nip in the air, our temperatures will be rising for the forthcoming few months.

If you love cemeteries, like I do, you might be interested in starting your own Grave Care Business. Providing grave care allows you to make a great income by doing plot maintenance, floral decorations, tombstone cleaning, and many other similar services. You also get to meet wonderful people who are thankful that you are providing these services for their loved ones’ gravesites. Best of all; you get to do this work in beautiful surroundings of peaceful cemeteries.

The link below shows you how you can start your own Grave Care Business. We have developed a professionally produced Grave Care Business course that teaches you practically everything you could want to know about starting your own Grave Care Business.

Have a great spring. Let me know if you have any questions.

Keith

GraveCareBusiness.com

Grave Stone Cleaning and Inspection Techniques

Proper grave stone cleaning requires proper inspection techniques.

In our Grave Care Business courses, we encourage proper tomb stone cleaning. Unfortunately, we have been horrified at the number of “tutorials” online that give improper or damaging advice. We recently saw one video of a man using a power grinder to “clean” away grime from a tombstone. In essence, he was grinding away the tombstone itself causing irreparable damage.

We are excited to be developing brand new grave stone inspection techniques. By properly inspecting a tomb stone, a grave care business owner can better determine a suggested courses of action to grave care customers. Proper tombstone cleaning begins long before you ever touch the stone.

For information on how you can start a business offering tombstone cleaning, please visit our main site by clicking the link below.

www.GraveCareBusiness.com

Cemeteries in Autumn – Life with a Higher Purpose

Autumn in a Cemetery — Autumn Leaves and Cemetery Graves

Autumn leaves and cemetery graves.

Autumn is a perfect time to start a grave care business. Fantastic weather and lots of work to be performed makes grave care a rewarding and profitable small business.

Grave plot maintenance, floral decorations, and tombstone cleaning are just three of the many niche grave care services we cover in the grave care business guidebook section of our grave care business course.

The Grave Care Business Course will help you start and grow your own grave care business. Comprehensive course with instructions, tutorials, video training guides, business toolkit, and estimating software.

If you are tired of working for someone else and want to start your own rewarding and profitable small business, watch this short video below. Grave care is not your typical business. Grave care is a meaningful business that truly helps people. They will be grateful for the work you do. Grave care is a rewarding business that will give your life higher purpose.

For complete information and ordering instructions, visit our main Grave Care Business website at:
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www.GraveCareBusiness.com

Grave Care Business – A Low Competition, Niche Business

Grave care is a low competition niche business.

I remember a business strategy class I took in college. The instructor continually maintained that competition is good. While I agreed with him on the basic factors of the need for competition, in the back of my head I was always thinking: “yes, but a monopoly is better.”

Why is competition good? Competition breeds innovation. Competition draws on synergy to create public awareness about a product.

Why is a monopoly better? Especially for an entrepreneur in a niche business, dominance in a particular product or service allows the entrepreneur to focus on product development, service delivery, and customer relationships.

Some competition is good. However, in most communities we have visited and studied across the United States (and some of Europe) there is very little competition to this business. Look around your area. Can you find anyone offering grave care services?

If you have ever thought about offering Grave Care Services, now is an excellent time to start. Be the first (or one of the first) in your community to offer grave care services. Being one of the first gives you a special opportunity to dominate your market segment and quickly build your client base.

We have developed a Grave Care Business course that will help you start and operate a successful Grave Care Business.

Our website is: www.GraveCareBusiness.com

Grave Care – Mother’s Day and Easter 2013

Grave Care Mother's Day Easter — Grave Care for Mother’s Day and Easter

Hi Everyone:

This is Keith with GraveCareBusiness.com

I’m just working on a quick blog post to remind you that we have TWO really, really big dates coming up in March and May of this year.

Easter is March 31, 2013 and
Mothers Day is May 12, 2013.

If you operate a grave care business, I cannot emphasize the importance enough of Easter and Mother’s Day. Outside of the Christmas season, these two dates are arguably the most important time of year for grave decorations, general plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning.

It’s spring time and people want their family’s grave sites cared for and decorated correctly. Oftentimes, adult children have moved away from their hometowns or are otherwise unable to care for their parents’ grave sites. They will gladly pay good money to have someone care for the plots, decorate the grave sites, and properly clean the tombstones.

So, if you are already operating your Grave Care Business, be sure to remind all your clients of the special services you are offering this year. Let them know that your schedule is tight and they need to schedule your services as soon as possible.

If you have yet to start your business, there is probably no better time to start than right now. Grave care customers are relatively easy to acquire any time of year. But, right now is a particularly opportune time to build a strong client list.

If you have ever thought about starting a Grave Care Business, we have developed a comprehensive Grave Care Business course that will teach you practically everything you need to know to start and operate a successful Grave Care Business. Please visit our website (click the link to our home page above) to learn all we offer. Get started now and you will be up and running in prime time to gain clients for Easter and Mother’s Day.

Once again, this is Keith with Grave Care Business.com