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How to Get What You Want Out of Your Business

After over ten years of working with business owners, and consulting them on how to create the businesses of their dreams, I often come across a very interesting scenario that I want to share with you today.  The key to getting what you want in business and in life isn’t actually as difficult as you might think!! I will make up a character called Bob. …

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How You Are Holding Yourself Back (and what to do about it)

For some reason it seems many people are not reaching their full potential.  Why is that?  Find out how you are Holding Yourself Back, how to break free of being a saboteur, and get the life that you really want! Originally, when I was creating my consulting program, I had this fantasy: I would sit my clients down, we would work on their time, money, niche, …

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How to Improve Your Business Systems in a Hurry (Part 2)

Your business will only ever be as good as the systems you have in place to support it.  If you are frustrated and struggling in one area of your company, my guess is that you need to improve your business systems.  Instead of staying stuck and spinning your wheels, why not work smarter rather than harder? In the last blog, I asked you what if …

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How to Build Your Personal Legacy and Share it With the World

Life can give us a lot of ups and downs.  As the year comes to a close, have a think about your year and what you want for the year to come.  By focusing on what our personal legacy is, we can look back on the year and put everything in perspective. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it …

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How To Be a Successful Introvert In Business

In my previous post, I explored the difference between being an introvert, or extrovert.  And, if you’ve realized you are an “inny”, rather than an “outty”, I’m going to try to help you realize even more about yourself and how to be a successful introvert in business.  If you are wondering–yes, I am an introvert–and as an introvert, I have come up against a lot of obstacles. …

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Introvert or Extrovert? & Why This Matters for Your Business

Are you an Introvert or Extrovert?  This post will help you find out, and let you know why this matters for your business success. “One-third to one-half of individuals are introverts.” – Rowan Bayne, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator In a world where the Extrovert is extremely favored, it is becoming more and more important to see where we fit in to the grand scheme of things, …

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What it Takes to Be a Small Business Owner

Entrepreneur Magazine just recently published this fantastic infographic created by Constant Contact (but I did have to change “Jack” into a “Jane”, OBVIOUSLY!)  Find Out What it Takes to Be a Small Business Owner below. Check it out! I love infographics!  Do you agree with the chart above? I do agree with most of it, but not the working all of the time and never taking any …

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Travel Poem: The Double Life by Don Blanding

The Double Life by Don Blanding How very simple life would be If only there were two of me A Restless Me to drift and roam A Quiet Me to stay at home. A Searching One to find his fill Of varied skies and newfound thrill While sane and homely things are done By the domestic Other One. And that’s just where the trouble lies; …