{"id":1356,"date":"2013-01-21T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:40:07","slug":"1356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/01\/21\/1356\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen with your 3 Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel conflicted sometimes after making a business decision, you are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Any business desiring long term viability will need to maintain profitability. Meeting customer needs while keeping staff, contractors, vendors or other stakeholders happy will always be a balancing act. Listening to each constituency with your 3 hearts will help. And what are those hearts?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heart<\/strong> \u2013 that sentimental place we believe kindness, empathy and love exist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mind<\/strong> \u2013 the rational heart, the logic driven brain that weighs the options;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gut<\/strong> \u2013 your instinct or intuition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each plays a part in making decisions and when we feel conflicted, it is often because we have not listened to all three.<\/p>\n<p>Before making weighty decisions, listen with your 3 hearts. An action made after this introspection will often be the best solution, keep customers returning, and save future resources which should enhance profitability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pausing for a moment and thinking &#8220;Heart-Mind-Gut&#8221; may get you on the path to fewer &#8220;If only I&#8217;d done __________. &#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do you do to help make thoughtful decisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Do you ever feel conflicted when you&#8217;ve made a business decision?\u00a0 Do you struggle when an employee complains about something? Are customer complaints hard to hear?\u00a0 When the phone rings, do you sometimes want to just hide even before you hear the call?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are not alone and most business decisions that have a good outcome are made from the 3 Hearts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heart<\/strong> \u2013 that sentimental place we believe kindness, empathy and love exist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mind<\/strong> \u2013 the rational heart, the logic driven brain that weighs the options;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gut<\/strong> \u2013 your instinct or intuition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pausing for a moment and thinking &#8220;Heart-Mind-Gut&#8221; may get you on the path to fewer &#8220;If only I&#8217;d. . . &#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what do you do to help make thoughtful decisions?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-culture","category-organization","category-personal-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}