Save Your Business: 8 Dynamic Ways To Rekindle Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
Home Raise your hand if you feel you’re at that point where you’ve lost your entrepreneurial spirit. You know, you’re no longer growing and neither is your business. Change is necessary. You have to save your business. But where do you start? How do you renew that drive that led you to start the business […]
How to Convert Business Debt Default Into Triumph
Home Defaulting on your business debt is the one thing that can make you feel like a loser. And in the worst way. Trust me…I know this first hand. Let me tell you about this particular business I started that was going to be “the winner.” I had done the market research, wrote the super business plan and I […]
12 Secret Entrepreneurial Skills You Need for Startup Growth
Home When I typed “entrepreneurial skills” in good old google on my trusted desktop, I immediately got 674,000,000 hits. When I reviewed some of these skills on the holy grail of the first page, they were similar from site to site. They were also mostly regular business skills that you need to run your business. […]
6 Easy Steps to Begin Your Personal & Professional Development
Home “Auntie! I’m ready to jumpstart my personal and professional development!” This was the last thing I expected to hear when I took a call from my wayward and scatterbrained, but favorite niece. Listen, you have no idea how many times I suggested to her now was a good time for her to to do […]
What Is The #1 Barrier Really Stopping Your Self Development?
Home I am done with self development…you declare to the world at large! And you really do mean it. After all, you spent close to $5,000 on training. You bought 8 self-help books. In addition, you attended 10 webinars and x-amount of coaching. All in the space of 6 months. I feel you. They told […]
7 Simple Ways You Can Build Successful Business Relationships
Home Some of you just don’t get it. Business relationships are critical to your success. Especially as a Small Business Owner. So why don’t you actively build new ones? Why do you consistently treat the ones you have so carelessly? And why are you acting so surprised that I’m calling you out? Don’t worry, I’m calling you […]
Self-employed? 25 Realities You Need to Embrace for Success
Home So…you’ve started that business. And whatever you call yourself, you’re finally self-employed. Congratulations! you’ve have joined the approximately 582 million entrepreneurs around the globe who are their own boss. But take it from me, there are some realities of being self-employed that they do not always write about in the business books or talk about in […]
How To Break Established Rules So You Can Really Win
Home Okay…I admit. I know how to break the rules. But I am not alone. We have all broken rules at some point in our lives. Tell me, was there never a time when you wanted to succeed at something so badly that you considered breaking the rules? And no, I don’t mean cheating or […]
Marketing A Service? 10 Wrong Beliefs You Need to Ditch to Win!
Home I can always tell when you’re having a particular problem out there. For example, marketing a service. 1 or 2 people, in a meeting somewhere, will ask me a certain question. Then, in a matter of days, in a classroom in a completely different location, someone will ask me a different version of the same […]
How to Easily Reduce Information Overload in 5 Proven Steps
Home “I’m suffering from information overload! Help! Lorna help!” The voice screeched in my ear… I held the phone at arm’s length from my ear and rolled my eyes to high heavens. You see, I recognized the voice and I knew the speed with which information overload could happen in her case. “Would you be […]
Personal Development: Top 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Early
Home “What are the top five questions to ask yourself when working on personal development?” Just last night when I checked my email, I realized that “Joy” had asked the question above. Joy went on to ask: I want to know the leading questions to ask about personal development and finding one’s purpose. When the interest […]
Assertiveness Skills: How To Use Them To Be Confident And Strong
Home For a long time in my life, I was completely unaware that there was any other way to behave except passive or aggressive. Assertiveness skills were not part of my vocabulary or my life. Strange…I know. But my mother was horribly aggressive. To the point where it was embarrassing. And as the first born, I was […]
From Good to Outstanding: How to Be Great in 5 Simple Steps
Home “You are great! Really, you are outstanding!” my new client enthused loudly. “Thank you!” I replied quite modestly but thinking that the last time my head swelled like this was when it collided with a field hockey ball, many years ago. It’s not like I had not heard some version of this comment before. But […]
Good Advice For Growth: 20 Obvious Things To Stop Doing Now!
Home Good advice for growth is always best when it comes from someone’s personal experience. And when that person is someone you know or have something in common with, you regard that advice as even more valuable. In the space of about a year, I stopped doing 20 obvious things that were somehow preventing me […]
How To Choose a Great Business Mentor Every Time
How To Choose A Great Business Mentor Every Time Home “Why is it that people continue to treat having a Business Mentor as just the latest flavor in business and professional development?” Poor me…one more time…I could not keep my big mouth shut, so I had to ask that question at a function I attended. […]