One of the ezines I receive is from ADD Management Group and the founder, Jennifer Koretsky, had a really interesting take on New Year’s resolutions I’d like to share with you.
She suggested that having a traditional, strict New Year’s Resolution just sets you up for not only failure, but beating yourself up over it as [...]
Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, once said, “People fail forward to success.”
And it really is true. You will make mistakes along the way to your success.
And it is your attitude toward your failures that will determine your eventual success … or not. Ralph Waldo Trine had this to say on the [...]
In his book Character Building Thought Power, Ralph Waldo Trine had this to day about the power of thought:
“Thought is the force underlying all. And what do we mean by this? Simply this: Your every act – every conscious act – is preceded by a thought. Your dominating thoughts determine your dominating actions. In the [...]
I’m probably dating myself here, but I really liked the first Wham! album. The other day, I was looking through YouTube to find the Wham! Rap so I could listen to it in the background and, as I listened, I realized that in between all the silly lyrics were some really important messages.
“Make the claims [...]
1. What do I really want for 2010?
You may have so many things you want to do with your business in the coming year that you are starting to feel overwhelmed. Keep asking yourself this question until you can boil it all down to just a few “big picture” desires for the new year. That [...]
Have you ever found yourself looking at yourself through the prism of a nay-sayer? It’s not a pretty picture, is it? But is it true?
The thing is a negative person will only see the bad in you … and they will, more than likely, exaggerate it. So how do you get through to the truth [...]
When you are a solo-entrepreneur, you are your business. So, it becomes very important to work on YOU more than you work on your business.
Work on:
Your mindset
Your skill set
Your knowledge base
Your physical health
Your mental health
All these things have an affect on your business. So it is so very important for you to work on all [...]
I know I may have said this before, but it bears repeating. Be open to multiple streams of income and multiple businesses that fit your overall business goals.
You don’t have to put all your profit eggs in one basket. Part of having a business mindset is knowing that you can’t depend on one income stream. [...]
Every business needs a strategy … often a set of strategies for each key project.
Yes, there are times when you do need to focus on the day-to-day mundane tasks and deadlines, solving short-term problems, and implementing in-the-moment marketing tactics.
However, they all need to be trees within a greater strategic forest. Do you know what your [...]
Yes, when times are tough it is easy to get in the rut of thinking short term … but this can lead to long term challenges. You need to think of your business as a growing, living entity.
Be strategic in the actions you take. Refrain from desperate measures — don’t just go to any networking [...]
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