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Celebrate Your Career
Excerpted from Melissa’s top selling Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day More than a third of our lives are spent in pursuit of our livelihood. Too often this is not a celebration but instead an obligation and a decision by default. We are put on a career track before we even know…
Band-Aids on Your Business: Ease the Pain
Well, despite it all, I do have to keep up on my ezine and sharing more business building tips! This week is about how to alleviate the pain we often find in our small businesses by eliminating the Band-Aid fixes. I have to confess that I am a terrible interviewer and it has cost me…
When Less Really IS More
Do you want to know the fastest way to get back a chunk of time? Get back money? Get back your life? PURGE. That’s right folks; Spring Cleaning is way over due. I wouldn’t have tackled it but for my move, but I can safely say that it has been astounding what I have found…
Turning on the Faucet for Referrals
As I went to my twice weekly Pilates session recently, I realized that I had never referred the studio I go to to any friends or clients. I am one of those “loyal-as-the-day-is-long” types and love to share my favorite resources so this surprised me. I realized that there were a couple of reasons. Firstly,…
Get It Done Now!
Beating procrastination is an art in and of itself! But it is essential to the success of every business. Here are 5 tips on getting more done every day the easy way: 1. Put Your Subconscious to Work: Before you head to sleep at night, think about the outcomes you most desire the following day;…
Relationship Investing for Real Business Returns
One of the essential keys to weathering the storms and vagaries of an unpredictable economy is to develop lasting relationships with your clients and consumers. It doesn’t matter if you are selling services or product, at the high end or the low end, what matters is that you have taken the time to develop long…
Time Mastery In A Minute
Since we think about time, we need to manage our thoughts! Now this is a huge topic and I could devote a book to it, but I’m instead going to offer just a trio of quick tips:• Know Your Most Productive Time – Design your day to take advantage of your personally best productive time.…
The Keys To Good Service
Yes, it is easy, do what you say you will. But surprisingly this is rarely the case. I don’t know about you, but I find all too often vendors and providers don’t do what they say they will. Recent experience getting quotes for replacement windows has been frustrating to put it mildly. Before getting quotes,…
Building Your Business
As discussed in the last issue, it is vital to ask, ask, ask to find the best and most appropriate resources and service providers to ensure your business success. But, getting the resources and providers is only half the equation, it is building the relationships that really matters now. How do you create a long…
Having It All–Yes. You Can!
I know most of us are taught that we can’t have it all, we are told life isn’t fair and it is about sacrifice and giving up to keep going. Not true – we can have it all, once we establish what our own personal “all” is. Most of us don’t really enjoy being pulled…
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