Sharon Evans
CEO/Founder
Evans Helping Hands, LLC
www.evanshands.com
Serving the for-profit and nonprofit sectors
with Management and Human Services
support for over 16 years.
My background is in
many aspects of business
development but my passion
is the social service arena.
This realization helped me
redesign the core of my
business consulting model ...
It has been a passion driven
journey ever since as I focus
on the skill sets that I love the
most.
The Many Faces of Focus
Passion + Productivity = Success
I
think one of the best decisions I’ve made during my entrepreneur journey was excepting that I did not know everything and sought mentorship to assist with and provide those
taps on the shoulder that ask “what are doing?” This guidance
has helped me focus on the skill sets that I love the most and
gave birth to an innate passion that I did not know existed at the
intensity that it did. This article will discuss not only the benefits
of staying focused but also the importance of staying focused
within a certain skill set – your passion - and discuss the ways it
can assist with being more successful in 2016.
I started my business over 3 years ago and I was all over the
place with business products and ventures. I wanted to utilize
and integrate every professional skill I possessed into my business model. I had so many things going on that I was never focused on anything and was overwhelmed by everything!
One day during a proposal presentation to a potential company client, one of the interviewers present said “when you
speak about development and program creation, your eyes light
up!” I did not give it much thought at the time and continued
using all my skill sets until burn out left me being unproductive. I started to look at my company as just “another job”. I had
not made the connection between focus, passion and success
until a mentor and friend, Dr. Victoria Boyd, founder of the Philantrepreneur Foundation made a comment “your niche is the
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