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Loving Your Business

Rethink Your Relationship with Your Company and Make it Work for You

Debbie King

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Loving Your Business
Mastering Your Mindset+
The Internal Instruction Manual+
Managing Complex Problems+
Building a Valuable Asset+
Selling the Business+

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Question 1 of 10
What is the primary reason the 'primitive brain' negatively affects modern business owners?
  • A. It lacks the capacity for high-level strategic thinking and business planning.
  • B. It constantly scans for danger, channeling outdated survival fears into negative beliefs.
  • C. It prevents business owners from building a comprehensive internal instruction manual.
  • D. It prioritizes complex problem-solving over basic fundamental survival.
Question 2 of 10
According to the author, what happens when a business owner breaks the rules of their own 'internal instruction manual'?
  • A. They immediately lose their market differentiation.
  • B. They are forced to shift to a polarity management style.
  • C. They experience feelings of guilt and stress.
  • D. They automatically develop a more positive outlook on their business.
Question 3 of 10
Which exercise does the author recommend to gain perspective when feeling overwhelmed by business problems?
  • A. Write out what advice your future self would give you.
  • B. List all the employees who are contributing to the problem.
  • C. Take a mental health day to completely disconnect from the business.
  • D. Focus on the worst-case scenario to prepare for the inevitable.
Question 4 of 10
In Debbie King's model of how we process reality, what directly generates our feelings?
  • A. The actions we take in response to a crisis.
  • B. The fundamental facts and circumstances of an event.
  • C. The ultimate results and outcomes of our business decisions.
  • D. Our thoughts about a specific circumstance.
Question 5 of 10
Why is blaming outside factors for business failures ultimately unhelpful?
  • A. It usually results in the loss of your most talented employees.
  • B. It prevents you from taking responsibility for how you think and feel.
  • C. It forces you to rewrite your internal instruction manual too frequently.
  • D. It causes your business to fall into the 'lifestyle trap.'
Question 6 of 10
How should a business owner handle a 'polarity,' such as the tradeoff between price and quality?
  • A. Choose the option that provides the most immediate recurring revenue.
  • B. Delegate the decision to an employee to avoid emotional interference.
  • C. Recognize it as an unsolvable problem that must be continuously managed rather than permanently fixed.
  • D. Permanently commit to one side of the spectrum to establish clear market differentiation.
Question 7 of 10
What does the author mean by the 'lifestyle business trap'?
  • A. When a business owner spends too much company money on personal luxuries.
  • B. When the business essentially owns the owner, rather than the owner owning the business.
  • C. When a business owner focuses exclusively on recurring revenue rather than market differentiation.
  • D. When a company prioritizes flexibility and structure over individual team members.
Question 8 of 10
According to the text, what is the single most important factor that determines the value of your business?
  • A. The number of sales reps you employ.
  • B. The ability to solve all polarities permanently.
  • C. Market differentiation.
  • D. Having a three-year projection plan.
Question 9 of 10
What should a business owner do to make their company more attractive to potential buyers when they decide to sell?
  • A. Hide any past polarities the company struggled with.
  • B. Fire all sales reps so the buyer can build their own team from scratch.
  • C. Pretend that the business requires no future planning or investment.
  • D. Provide a three-year plan projecting how the business could grow with more resources.
Question 10 of 10
What is the recommended strategy for effective delegation as your business scales?
  • A. Delegate all tasks that involve managing polarities.
  • B. Divide your tasks into things anyone can do and things only you can do, then focus entirely on the latter.
  • C. Only delegate tasks that generate negative thoughts and emotional interference.
  • D. Assign all sales and marketing tasks to yourself to maintain control of the company's image.

Loving Your Business — Full Chapter Overview

Loving Your Business Summary & Overview

Loving Your Business (2020) is a guide for people who feel overwhelmed by their business. Debbie King offers new strategies for thinking about your business and managing your emotions in order to avoid unnecessary stress and achieve positive outcomes.

Who Should Listen to Loving Your Business?

  • Business owners
  • Potential entrepreneurs
  • Anyone tired of getting trapped in negative thinking

About the Author: Debbie King

Debbie King is an expert at applying tools based on cognitive psychology to transform your relationship with your business while you scale. She successfully transformed her business, Association Analytics, from a service-based technical consulting model to a leader in the field of productized solutions. After scaling and selling that business, Debbie created the coaching company, Loving Your Business. She has a Master's degree in Leadership from Georgetown University, and more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and a coach.

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