Showing posts with label Nutrition Company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nutrition Company. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Why Company Culture Is So Important For Success


Culture is a daunting thing to think about as a leader even more so when you ponder how you personally can affect it for the better. Culture is absolutely necessary to get right if you want to have a truly successful team. So the question remains, how can one person affect his working environments culture for the better?

What is culture and why is it so important?
I believe it was in Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why” he describes culture as a group of individuals that come together and have common values and beliefs. I think this is a great description of culture. Culture is so important because it shapes the individuals in that society to act a certain way in one form or another.
 For instance I grew up in a very small town in Indiana before I joined the military I never had any other job other than a farm hand and on many different types of farms. I truly believe that culture I was placed in while growing up instilled good hardworking traits and habits into me and I greatly benefited from the cultures I was apart of.
            Here is another way to think about culture, imagine it as the root system of a tree. Each root is your companies, squadrons, or families core values, ethics, and valued traits. The stronger the culture/roots the more your society will withstand and hold strong. If you company does not stand for anything it will be blown over by any adversity that comes its way.

How to maintain Culture
A strong culture can be a lifeline to a company facing difficulty; it is not uncommon for a leader to make rash hasty decision under the gun. This is when a strong culture helps, one that a leader can fall back and it can be very comforting. Creating a strong culture will aid the group to build those strong roots, the stronger the roots grow the more support you will get from the rest of your members. Another Reference from “Simon Sinek’s Book Start with Why” (I apologize for not doing the story justice I am currently righting this blog offline and do not have the book handy).
            Basically the story explains a time when the entire world had not been completely explored, and a captain sent an ad out to recruit men for a very dangerous mission to explore Antarctica, the mission was very risky and chances of survival were minimal. They began their voyage and soon enough they were caught in ice they ended up drifting for months with limited supplies and under horrible conditions, many assumed few would come back as the ingredients to that environment often meant mutiny. Finally the ship was rescued and not a one person lost their life. This was to the astonishment of speculators who had estimated most would have died, how did they do this?
            The captain of the boat before they left was very cunning, when he created his ad for the newspaper he created an add that ensured everyone responding would have the same values, traits, and ethics and that would make his culture extremely strong on the boat. He explained in the ad the trip would be extremely dangerous, and odds were they would not make it back. But in the chance they did survive every man on the boat would be famous and do something that no one else could.

Take Away
Build a strong enough culture and no matter the trials or difficulties your society will stick together through pain and be there to celebrate triumphs.


Question:
Do you think culture can be taught? Or do you believe it is a Nature vs Nurture phenomenon?

“See You At The Top”
Tom McConnell
Owner Mental Giants Nutrition
TomMcConnell@mentalgiantsnutrition.com


Saturday, September 19, 2015

How to be successful in anything! Start with Discipline


Successful people have one thing in common they are always striving for self improvement. This is commonly misunderstood as never being content, but the truth is many of the very successful know how important it is to be content and happy with what you have and with those around you. They also have an understanding that what they have achieved is not what is important but rather the person they have become on the journey to those achievements. So if you have a desire in you to be great and are unsure of what to do next, pick up a book from someone or something that inspires you, I promise it will lead you to another book and another book your ideas will grow and you will eventually find your purpose, and a purpose in life is a powerful thing, and what it is all about.
    Another tip I have heard time and time again, start building your discipline without it you will miss many opportunities. This can start in little actions, when you decided to go on a run and then attempt to talk yourself out of it Do it anyway Another example when your tired and don't feel like reading that book don't turn on the T.V. and zone out pick up that book! The best part about this is the more you commit to these disciplines the more you will hardwire your brain to perform these tasks and the easier it becomes, soon you will enjoy sitting back reading a book and learning just as much as you have vegging out in front of the T.V. in the past. Your brain can be an amazing asset but that all depends on how you choose to wire it! 

"See you at the top"

Tom McConnell

Time to Start The Next Hill, Bring it on

   Bring on the next challenge but more importantly the opportunity

10 days Ago I began a new journey, I have been ordered to move from Florida to Alaska just another perk of being in the Military, at first this news hit me hard, I finally got my business setup and beginning to thrive and then I was told I had to pack up and leave.
     Luckily I have recruited two friends/coworkers I worked with from my last job to help me, this has been greatly beneficial in many ways but to name a few in this situation it allowed me to keep all the customers in Florida happy and allow the shipping from the lower 48 states to remain in place. Honestly this has been more of a blessing than a hardship, I am moving to Anchorage which is a huge city and holds so much opportunity, one guy is staying back at the home base in Florida and managing the majority of the inventory, and the third guy is moving to Texas which opens up another market to set roots in.
     As I have made my way literally across the United States I have been feeding my brain many good books and have found and am power consuming an amazing amazing amazing podcast EntreLeadership, many times after listening to an episode I had to sit in silence as I let the wisdom of what was said sink into my mind. I have really been taken back with the quality of information in these episodes, actually so much so I practically pleaded with my business partners to begin ingesting the podcasts immediately, I know we will be successful if we put into place a quarter of the knowledge presented.
     In about six hours I will be boarding a Ferry that will take me on a four and a half day journey and finally land me in Alaska, I plan on doing an enormous amount of reading and listening to podcast as well as some much needed meditation on what I truly want out of the company, about the leader I want to become in the Military, and the a leader at home as a husband and father. Honestly I hope they do not offer WiFi so I able to focus and not be tempted with meaningless distractions.

"See You At The Top"

Tom McConnell
Owner www.mentalgiantsnutrition.com
tommcconnell@mentalgiantsnutrition.com


Starting a Nutrition Company

Endurance Training

Below is a little background of the company I started and its first product.

     So I am currently to the point in this experience where I am up and running, I have had a product in hand for a little more then a week and I have all my selling platforms online including Amazon, E-bay, and My Website. It took a great deal of effort to get to this point and I feel like I just finished a half marathon to be told the next race is just beginning. I have sold about 50 Jars of my product Simply Focus in about a week out of 288 in the first batch, each one of these sales are individuals I know personally some more then others, and 90% of the people who Beta tested the product for me bought the product, that was actually the first big good sign, the Beta testers were asking me quite often when the product was going to be in.
     I am having really good results from the customers who have bought my product so far, about a 90% rate of them being really happy with the product, I know a lot of them are honest and would not sugar coat their analysis but they are people I know so I really want to get some anonymous feedback on the product with no bias involved.
    I have been hitting this project very hard lately and feeling a little beat down, but received a big boost of energy today after receiving a message regarding the product performance. It came from My wife's Sister in-law, she was very exited because she had bought this product for her son who suffers from ADHD. The message stated how exited she was because for the first time her son showed signs of regression of his ADHD diagnosis. She explained how he has been through multiple prescriptions but nothing had worked, but the vitamin pack seems to be having an effect on him. I know vitamins react differently on every user so I was happy he was receiving them well, this brought a big smile to my face and a lot of hope, because this product was created to increase focus and attention spans while also elevating mood and reducing anxiety. I am really hoping these effects will be lasting, and interested how he does after taking the supplement steadily, as a big benefit of the product is the long term effects from the brain nutritional side of the product.
     My next post will contain some of the information about how I got to this point with product in hand, in case anyone is interested in exactly how I went through creating a company, logo, design, product and so on.


Small progress everyday is what I'm after.


See You At The Top,
Tom McConnell


www.mentalgiantsnutrition.com