Mindset
7 Smart Steps to Make This Your Best Year Ever
Every year at this time, everyone is talking about resolutions and goal making. While those two activities may have merit, by themselves they are largely ineffective and a waste of your time, energy and focus. Instead by following the surefire, smart (and simple) steps here you are guaranteeing the realization of step one in the…
Living Backwards: Lessons From the Rear View Mirror in Business (Part 1)
Hindsight is always 20/20 and sometimes 20/15! Wouldn’t it be an amazing journey to live backwards? How many lessons could we skip if we started out at the top with all the wisdom and lived into our youth and ignorance? It’s a crazy idea and since we can’t, here are some lessons I’ve learned in…
Olympic Lessons in Business: How to Get Your Gold Success
There are some priceless lessons in the Olympics that you can take away for your business success. The dedication, singular focus, and sacrifice many athletes make at very young ages and for several years is astounding. They are setting themselves up for lifetime achievement and success and staying uniquely focused on that greatest of goals…
5 Wickedly Simple Ways to Make Business Easy . . .and Life Great
It has taken me years to learn this, but learn it I have. Life and work is as hard or easy as we decide to make it. Really. Think about this for a minute. When you create solid success habits that drive the right clients into your business, when you have solid systems in place…
3 Blazingly Obvious Ways You Are Screwing Up Your Success
There are a million reasons (nay excuses) why you aren’t where you want to be, why you haven’t achieved what you wanted to, and why you are selling yourself short. Here are three of the biggest and the easiest and fastest to correct. See if you don’t agree and get busy putting your business back…
How to Jump into Success: It’s All In Your Shoes
I was in New Zealand for two weeks by myself. I’d only planned my five week adventure Down Under as far as my travel arrangements and transportation, the rest I left up to local concierges and guides. This is just how I roll. I don’t read guidebooks, GPS myself into the ground, or have a…
5 Ways to Stop Failing in Business Everyday: Success Habits for Small Biz Success
I know, it’s an ugly thought, failure. But you may be right in the middle of it on a daily basis and not even realize it. Oh sure, you are probably noticing a drop in your sales, or perhaps you’ve just hit a plateau (nice word for stalled out.) And if you don’t know about…
How to Avoid Failure Every Time . . .
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend of mine. It was a gorgeous sunny day, though still brisk with Spring on the way, but not yet here. We decided to stroll the neighborhood boutiques following a delicious bite to eat. It was a Monday, so not many other folks were out (hey there are…
5 Steps to Creating Your Own Tribe
Building a business community, fostering your own tribe is about stepping out of the small self you are and moving into the bigger self you can be when going farther together. Here are five essential building blocks to creating your own tribe.