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Is Your Integrity Showing? Your Greatest Business Asset Might Not Be What You Think It Is!
Whether you offer a service, or sell a product, the ultimate goal of any business is to make a profit, which means you must make sales. We put a lot of time and money into resources to help us perfect the art of salesmanship. We read and study, attend sales meetings...
Focusing on Focus: Part Two – Maintaining It
Now that you have established some habits to create focus, the task is to maintain it. It's easier than you think, when you apply a few simple strategies. Diligence in this area of focus REALLY pays off in the long run. It will actually strengthen pathways in your...
Focusing on Focus: Part One – Creating It
We have talked about the importance of having laser focus in business (Missed it? CLICK HERE!). Then we gave an example of how to go from totally distracted to ready to rock the to-do list (Read More - CLICK HERE!). Now we are going to start laying it all out and...
How To Rise Above ANY Big Challenge!
Today, I experienced a mountain-that-was-no-mole-hill kind of challenge to my commitment to maintaining focus in my business life. Without focus, I am such a mental butterfly; I am useless. So, I take that commitment very seriously, but then.... here comes that...
What is the ONE Trait MOST Successful Entrepreneurs Have?
One trait most successful entrepreneurs possess is laser focus. Though unless they are naturally blessed with it, they will strive to develop it. Why? Because they have learned how powerful it is when you integrate focus into everything you do. Some of the benefits of...
Are You Hiding in Plain Site? Enhance your online presence with great niche-related features.
These days, any serious business owner has a website or blog to help market their business. A website with your own domain name (URL) establishes a professional online presence and offers a central hub for all of your online and offline marketing efforts. However, if...
Blogging Boosts Business – Here’s 3 Reasons Why!
Building a new business can be a difficult task; if you don’t have the essential components, you will not achieve the success you dream of. Today, business owners have realized the power of blogging and the way in which it boosts business. Originally used to express...
Systemize, sassify, SUCCEED! How to do more with less time.
In my conversations with other entrepreneurs over the course of the last thirty years, one frustration seems common to most and we all tend to wrestle with it as badly ten years into the entrepreneurial journey as we did when we began. Can you guess what it is?...
Death by Comfort Zone – Why safe isn’t so safe.
Wikipedia defines comfort zone as “a psychological state in which a person feels familiar, at ease, in control and experiences low anxiety and stress. In the zone a steady level of performance is possible.” Sounds GREAT right? It all depends on what area of your life...
5 unorthodox (but effective) ways to stop anxiety in it’s tracks!
Anxiety disorders are a mental problem as old as civilization, though there are numerous unconfirmed reports that more people are having problems with anxiety and phobias now than ever. While these reports lack concrete evidence to back their claims up, the fact is, a...
Give Thanks Eh! – A Brief History of Canadian Thanksgiving
Canadian Thanksgiving is held the second Monday in October, unlike American Thanksgiving, which falls in November. I’ve know folks who thought this was due to wanting a different holiday, or because our pilgrims traveled at different times, or even because we have an...
Make Your Own Fall Favorite – Cider!
People here in British Columbia stepped outside this week to falling leaves, (rapidly) cooling temperatures, and that crisp scent in the air that could only mean one thing: Fall is really and truly here. With the brisk weather, falling leaves, and Halloween...