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- Are You on Track Or Running Off the Rails?
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter how rich you are or how poor you are. Not even how famous, infamous or average you are. Time does not stop for anyone and you can't get more of it.
- Eating the Elephant One Bite at a Time
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When you take a look at the goals you have set for your business and your life, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Does it seem like a very large leap to get there from where you are today?
- 5 Reasons Most People Fail at Goal Setting
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If you are like many people, you probably have a few goals that you haven't made much progress toward achieving. You may even have some that you haven't even started. Many people avoid setting goals because they tried it once and when they didn't achieve them, they decided goal setting just doesn't work.
- Quick! When I Say Salesmen What Comes to Mind?
[Business:Sales] When I ask most people that question the typical responses are a wrinkle of their nose and words like, pushy, intrusive, an interruption, and even rude. Just think of the last time you interacted with someone trying to sell you something.
- Do You Love What You Do?
[Self-Improvement:Success] The recent economic crisis has caused many people to reevaluate their business or career interest. As a result of the turmoil, I have had the opportunity to speak with different individuals and groups about the concept of finding your true passion in business.
- 7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Confirm Your Leadership Success
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] It's no secret that leaders today must be able to balance many responsibilities and roles in their quest to succeed in business. Leaders are pulled in many different directions and can find themselves caught between what they need to do in order to create a winning team and keeping all their constituencies happy.
- It Takes 100% Commitment to Your Plan to Succeed
[Business:Productivity] There are three areas you must focus on in order to achieve the success you desire. In difficult times like these it is absolutely critical that you learn these three key skills and apply them every day in your business and life.
- Is Our Connectedness Causing Us to Disconnect?
[Computers-and-Technology] There is no doubt that we are more connected today than at any time in our history. Today's technology makes it possible to never be out of touch. Yet, it seems the more technology enabled we become the more disconnected we are.
- Build a Successful Business Through the Art of Budgeting
[Business:Strategic-Planning] What is a budget? A budget is a plan that establishes goals for how you will manage the financial resources and expenditures for your business. It is a simple equation of revenues (sales) minus expenses (costs) to determine profit.
- Do You Have What it Takes to Start Your Own Business?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] For many people the lure of being your own boss and setting your own agenda will cause them to start a business. Being a business owner is not for everyone and it is important to really think through what it means to own a business before making the leap. Here are five things you should consider carefully when evaluating your fit as a business owner.
- Are You Ready to Give Up the Dream of Affluence? - Me Neither!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The headlines are coming at us from everywhere. There are numerous stories all over the internet, in your local paper, in the news magazines and on the television news telling us that the age of affluence is over. When you started your business, you had a reason to do so. There is no reason for you not to continue to pursue that dream with all your heart and passion.
- Here's Why Trying to Manage Time is Causing You Additional Stress
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] There's not enough time! Sounds familiar doesn't it? How many times have you said that there just aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done? Time is such a precious commodity in our life and yet we never seem to have enough of it in our day.
- You Versus Failure - 5 Secrets to Overcome Obstacles to Success
[Business:Management] Today many businesses are facing the prospect of failure. We hear it every day in the media and see it along every main street in our communities. The new economy will require almost every business owner to adjust their business in some way to prosper. So, what do you do when the possibility of failure confronts you? Here are five ways to deal with failure and use it to your advantage to create new, even bigger success in your life.
- Will Your Banker Be There For You When You Need Them?
[Business:Management] The relationship you maintain with your bank and your banker has never been more important than today. Banks want to, and need to, lend money to businesses with strong results and a good credit rating. Lending may be tight today, but it will loosen up and you want to be in a good position to take advantage of it when you need to.
- How to Avoid 7 Common Costly Marketing Mistakes
[Business:Marketing] Effective marketing is vital to the success of any business. The old adage, "Build it and they will come," rarely works when it comes to starting or running a business. You can have the best product or service in the market, but if no one knows about it or understands how it can help them, then sales will suffer.
- If the Leader Motivates the Team, Who Motivates the Leader?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Business is a mixture of opportunities and challenges. In order to deal with both, you must be able to keep your team motivated. It is also important to keep yourself motivated. So what is the answer to the question, "Who motivates the leader?"
- Are You Dissatisfied Enough to Finally Change?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The world is continually changing around us, as can be witnessed by the events of the past year. You must be willing to change yourself in order to meet the new challenges of today and achieve success.
- Five Lessons You Can Learn From a Game
[Business:Productivity] Life can be the best teacher of all when you take the time to pay attention to what life is telling you. Whenever you engage in a sport or competition of some type there are many lessons you can apply to your career or business.
- Use This Key Factor to Achieve a Success Mindset
[Self-Improvement:Success] The human mind can serve us beyond our wildest imaginations if we let it. It has an unlimited capacity to learn and when properly nurtured, it promotes clarity and focus that leads to achievement. However, before this happens you have to make a commitment.
- Get Smart - You'll Be Rewarded Accordingly
[Business:Productivity] Success does not have to be so complicated that achieving it requires great feats of super human effort. However, without written measurable goals you spend precious seconds, minutes, days, months and years running frantically getting nothing more than exhausted.
- Will You Be a Winner Or a Whiner?
[Business:Small-Business] With a clear plan, focused action and strong beliefs you can find success, despite the economy. All it takes is the right planning and strategy and you can expect the next year to be a great one.
- The Economy is Changing - Are You?
[Self-Improvement:Innovation] Being able to innovate in business is clearly one of the key areas of entrepreneurship. However, the idea of needing to innovate to succeed can be a little scary at times. Many people don't believe that they are creative enough to do this well. Nothing could be further from the truth.
- 6 Ways to Work Through a Business Slowdown
[Business:Management] It seems that most businesses will be impacted in some way by the current economic turmoil. As a small business owner, you have a choice about how you react to it.
- The Fallacy of Time Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] There have been numerous books and articles written on the subject of time management. The problem is ... you cannot manage time. Time is the great equalizer. We are all given the exact same amount of time in every day, week, month and year. In fact, we all get 525,600 minutes per year. That sounds like a lot, doesn't it? So, why is it that we all complain about the lack of time we have?
- Which Comes First - Wealth Or Success?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Think about this example for a minute. A small business owner creates a business that grows substantially every year and becomes very profitable. The business is generating six figure profits each year and the owner is earning a great personal income. She has invested a large sum of money for her future and created substantial value through her business.
- Pursue Success With Passion and Purpose
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If your definition of success really does stir your passions and speak to your heart, then you need to ask yourself, "What is holding me back and why?" Realizing what is holding you back is a major step you need to take in your journey. You can't begin a journey to get what you really want if you let your fears get in the way.
- When Something is Measured - It Improves!
[Business:Small-Business] As a business owner, how do you know when your business is working the way you want it to? How do you determine if the sales, profits, efficiency and other pertinent areas of the business are performing the way you expected? Understanding these key performance indicators is critical to knowing what you should be focused on developing. .
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