I see a lot of painful attempts at building a successful business.  They make me wince, because business success — while there’s an entire industry (unfortunately, MY industry)  devoted to complicated it for us — is actually fairly SIMPLE.  I didn’t say EASY.  Being your own boss, with all of its freedom and potential, is
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A huge focus in business magazines, conferences and conversations these days is on “Getting MORE Done.”  After all, we’ve got more to do, right?  I mean, our businesses are more complex today than they were yesterday when you consider all we “have” to do: blogging tweeting facebooking following up conference attending networking selling creating new
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Every day, I get several emails with questions from business owners. In most cases they are asking the WRONG questions about business success.  Still, I’ll answer a handful of them here… roughly in descending order.  Most commonly asked first. I’ve been in business for X # of years, when can I expect to make some
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It’s no secret that an impressive portion of the top 5% of earners are self-employed — but that’s not really the route to financial security.  And if you’ve ever had the — um… — privilege of listening to a multi- multi- millionaire talk about money worries and woes, you’ll know another secret:  Having wealth that
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Businesses have always benefitted from an owner’s innate sense of urgency — a desire to achieve RIGHT NOW. But, this month… this year…. I’ve seen URGENCY as a major trend in my clients; as well as other business owners I meet when speaking. It’s what’s propelling business owners forward, and it’s what’s behind some major
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Think back to January of this year. You were setting goals…. thinking big…. crunching numbers… And — you had every confidence that 2013 would be YOUR year. And for good reason, by the way.  THIS is the “you” you need to listen to ALL YEAR ROUND — that big, bold and audacious YOU. But, somewhere along
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First, I’ll answer your immediate suspicion.  No, I’m not selling Beach Body products.  And no, this is not a sponsored post.  (I promise to always be up front with you in that regard.)  Yes, I do use Beach Body products and workout videos. (That’s the gal I buy from to the left.  You can click
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