Mindset
3 Real Reasons Your Business Is NOT All About Your Clients
I got an email from a client recently, bemoaning a client she had who was arguing over fee and suggesting her agreement wasn’t clear. My client was very upset and worried that her client would speak poorly of her and damage her reputation. She wanted to know what to do. Never Allow Your Clients to…
3 Fast Fixes to Turn Your Fear Into Fuel and Move Your Business Forward
Fear is the only thing that is stopping you from getting exactly what you want and fear is something that is created inside of you. Whether you grapple with fear of failure or fear of success (much more common), fear of being poor or fear of being rich, fear of not having enough clients or…
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: 7 Surefire Ways to Beat Loneliness in Business
In a recent survey I took, one of the greatest challenges facing solopreneurs and home based CEOs these days is the isolation that can come with working from home and doing a lot of that work by phone or online. While you have the convenience of working in your pajamas, you also face the loneliness…
Robin Williams Tribute: 10 Lessons Learned on How to Look at Life . . .
When I read the headline of Robin Williams untimely death, I was actually standing in front of an audience, doing a live online training. It flashed across the top of a site I’d searched and I remember feeling gut punched and that it couldn’t be real. He was the same age as my mother, the…
10 Smart Reasons Successful People Take Vacations
Whether you make it a STAYCATION or you vacate your everyday life and make it a VACATION isn’t as important as that you take the time to call a digital disconnect and recharge your own internal batteries. This is about resting and refueling your body, your mind, and your spirit. While I’m certainly a fan…
Overcome Your Fears and Find Your Freedom to Flourish
When you were a kid, do you remember being scared of the dark? Do you remember needing a night light or asking to keep the door to your bedroom open so the hall light would help keep the dark monsters away? In my case, it was the clothes monster. My sister and I shared bunk…
Mindset Mastery: Do You Want to Be Safe or Successful?
Have you ever been in a networking meeting and after speaking with just a handful of attendees, you felt like yelling “stop being so small,play a bigger game!” (Oops, is that just me?) It happened just the other day . . . It was frustrating because I was in a room filled with wildly well-educated…
Mindset Changes: Lose Your Limiting Beliefs, They Aren’t Yours Anyway!
I’ve not spoken to my father in over 20 years. Does that shock you? Does it make you feel sorry for me? (Please don’t.) Or, does it make you want to tell me to forgive and forget? Heck, you may even suggest (as some do) that I get in touch, it will make me feel…
How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Thought Possible, Really!
Do you know that every house I’ve ever wanted, and I’ve owned four, I’ve gotten because I believed they were mine before they actually were. I know that may sound totally crazy, and it’s entirely true. In each case, I visualized how I would live in the house, what it would be like to entertain…