How to Lose $1 Million & Get it Back in 6 Months

How it happened…"fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”

Putting aside the Ali Safavi real estate story for a moment, remember the historical tale of the Trojan War between the Greeks and people of the city of Troy? No? Well, let me give you a brief summary:

The Greeks were at war with the Trojans for the best part of 10 years during which they were unsuccessful in breaching the city’s defenses. So, the Greeks came up with a plan of planting a ruse to trick the Trojans into thinking that they had achieved victory while they themselves pretended to make preparations to sail back home in retreat. For their plan, the Greeks decided to construct a large wooden horse which could house a small contingent of fighters to sneak into the city of Troy undetected. The horse, with more than 30 soldiers inside it, was gifted as parting present by the Greeks to the Trojans as a sign of their victory who wheeled it into the city. During the cover of night, the Greek contingent crept out of the large structure and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, who had pretended to retreat, to enter the city and overthrow it, resulting in victory for the Greeks.

The purpose of giving a recap of this story was to strike a similarity between it and the events which might unfold when everything looks to be going well and according to plan. An unpleasant situation can spring up on the back of a positive series of events which highlight the randomness of a calamity and its ability to strike an unsuspecting target – as it did with Ali Safavi Real Estate.

A typical business can be affected by a number of external and internal factors which could instigate and give birth to problems which can have a detrimental effect on the business itself as well as the stakeholders associated with it. Some of the most common sources and indicators of business-related problems which might affect you include:

• Economic Changes
• Financial Problems
• Customer Loss
• Industry-wide Changes

Quickly Develop Awareness over your Situation

When faced with a situation where you have been cheated with, as I have with Ali Safavi Real Estate, a person can lead to doubt his very existence. Many different thoughts come to one’s mind; how could I have not seen this? How could I be so naïve? However, what’s done is done; nothing can be done to change that now. However, for those of you treading on a similar path, it is still not late.

Pinpointing a problem is one thing while acting to resolve the problem is another. Both are a completely different ball game and require a person to harness their analytical as well as interpersonal skills in order to turn the tide in their favor and stop the impending doom which may strike you and your company. If a person is to become a master at efficiently managing and dealing with a crisis situation, they need to be trained in crisis management, should have good situational awareness and problem-solving abilities to pull the company out of a challenging situation.

In addition, an individual’s problem-solving capabilities coupled with impeccable situational awareness also tend to be beneficial in such disaster-like situations, which I found to be extremely helpful in me getting over my ordeal with Ali Safavi Real Estate. Situational awareness is concerned with the ability of individuals to be aware of their surroundings, the foresight to be able to develop different scenarios which might arise as a result of changes beyond their control and the manner in which they react to different situations which are in their own and their company’s best interests. This can go a long way in helping you recover from a seemingly uneasy situation.

To help you become such a person and to provide you with the necessary guidance to escape the clutches of situations which might leave you gasping for air, here are my Ali Safavi key steps to follow on the path to developing awareness about the situation you are faced by:

• Try and Predict Events
• Identify and Isolate the Elements around You
• Trust your gut feeling
• Do not be Complacent
• Utilize time effectively
• Take action

Develop a to-do and Not to-do List

Whether it’s the simplest of tasks or the most difficult ones, every single one of them requires you to develop a functional plan to go about completing that task in the best possible manner. Talking key decisions which may significantly impact your business should be of utmost importance. Many companies have developed handbooks which have step by step illustrations on how to solve each type of problem one can be faced by within a company. Other companies have SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) in place to deal with certain situations in a certain manner. All this is possible with intense situational training and disaster simulation to determine the best solution or action to tackle or limit the effects of a problem.

However, in some businesses, you are not afforded with the luxury of being exposed to predetermined sets of problems whose possible solutions have already been earmarked. You have to think of a way to solve the problem by virtue of past experience and basic problem-solving skills to help you along the way. With that being said, there are some basic factors which should be adopted as quickly as possible and those which should only be looked at as a last-ditch attempt to solve a problem. It is important for individuals to stick to these Ali Safavi tips for as much time as possible if they want to recover their lost fortune as quickly as possible.

• DO Adapt to Changing Market Demands
• DO NOT over expand your business
• DO NOT Take Loans to Service Debt

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Improve Just 1% Every day

The road to recovery is a long and treacherous path which needs to be followed without the slightest of deviations as I witnessed firsthand. You should be patient while faced with a particularly worrying situation as it clouds your ability to think freely and positively. Every decision you take should be more result oriented from now on and should positively impact all the stakeholders of your business in order to prevent further damage to your company.

Did we talk about the importance of taking things slowly? Well, then the fact that I keep bringing this up again and again should be reason enough for you to stay true to this suggestion as it will only benefit you and your company in the long run.

Automate Tasks

Many companies fail to take advantage of technological innovations which we are bombarded with on a daily basis. They continue to stick with the old and traditional ways which they have grown up with and are comfortable with. Many simply do not want to adopt new ways of doing tasks in exchange for the older ways because either they are weary of the risk of failure associated with trying out something new or simply don’t want to learn better ways to do something. If you have that mentality, then you may limit yourself as well as your company’s potential for growth by displaying such hesitance.

Daily Meetings

Desperate times call for desperate measures. As such, it is important to track the progress of your company on a daily basis, especially after recovering from a hefty loss like I did. Daily meetings went a long way in helping me ensure that my company was on the road to recovery. It allowed me to track whether my workers were completing the tasks assigned to them on time, the responses of clients with regards to the work done for them by my company as well as pinpoint workers who were slacking and causing my company to lose business.

Use Softwares to Track Progress

Another option which I pondered with Ali Safavi Real Estate, but didn’t actually go through with because I did not feel it to be relevant with the size of my company, was the idea of using a software to track my business’s progress. If your nature of work or the size of your company doesn’t allow you to conduct daily meetings to discuss work-related issues at length, then you should possibly look at devising a software which can do that for you. Many organizations have such softwares which allow you to monitor employee performance through checking whether they are completing the work assigned to them for the day and the client’s reaction to the work submitted to them by every employee. This can help you further cleanse your organization of inefficiencies on part of your employees.