Archive for 'Productivity'
Are you open to working exclusively with “high-end” clients?
You know you’re really good at what you do. You offer tremendous value. You make people’s lives better. Maybe you even help them make more money.
Yet chances are pretty good that for the sake of getting business through the door, you’ve been tempted to take on clients at ridiculously low fees. Or worse yet, you’ve… Full Story >>>
Practical Entrepreneurship, Part 3
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about the practical skills that any entrepreneur needs to develop, acquire, or hire into their business. Practical Entrepreneurship, Part 1 and Practical Entrepreneurship, Part 2. I wrote about the first six, which are listed below, and provided recommended resources. I’ve since refined that list and added one more:… Full Story >>>
Full StoryPractical Entrepreneurship, Part 1
As the job market has shriveled up, more people have become “unplanned entrepreneurs.” You may be one of them. I think this is a good thing. And also a bad thing.
The good thing is that people aren’t waiting around for our governments to provide solutions to problems that are multifactorial and complex in nature. Personally,… Full Story >>>
The Invisible Forces That Bind Us
Have you ever worked hard on a project or marketing campaign, one with great promise, one where it seems that everything is aligned, all the right things are place, and still, things aren’t turning out even close to its anticipated potential? The project grinds to a screeching halt. The marketing campaign fizzles out. The opportunity… Full Story >>>
Full StoryBoosting Business Productivity – Scheduled Relaxation
When things aren’t going as well as you’d like in your business, chances are that your natural inclination is to “try harder,” as in work harder and work longer hours.
Otherwise known as the “brute force” approach to success, the problem is that this approach doesn’t typically work. The only guarantee with this approach is that… Full Story >>>
Fear Management for Entrepreneurs
One of my dedicated readers, Dave, has graciously and generously expressed his fears and concerns about taking the leap toward setting up his coaching/consulting practice.
In a comment on my post about “The Gift of Forgiveness,” Dave wrote that he’s “still struggling to break through what sometimes feels like a Saran wrap of low self-confidence and… Full Story >>>
Investing 101: Where Do YOU Invest Your Personal Energy?
Through my years of medical training and practicing as a plastic surgeon surgeon, I’ve gained a great appreciation that one’s health and well-being is the foundation of all wealth, material and otherwise.
Inclusive of our own health and well-being, the greatest asset we have is our personal energy. That energy is comprised of physical, mental, emotional,… Full Story >>>
Focusing Through Distractions
The most important skill for consistent high-performance in your business
“If I were asked to choose one mental skill that distinguishes athletes and other performers who remain at the top of their game, I would name their ability to adapt and re-focus in the face of distractions.”
– Terry Orlick, author of In Pursuit of Excellence: How… Full Story >>>
Do You Have the Freedom to Trust Your Inner Guidance System?
Or are you being an “intellectual bulldozer”?
A lot of us go through life thinking that if we’re smart enough and we think through it, we can bull our way through a brick wall, without getting bumps and bruises or cracking open our skulls!
We think that intellectually we should be able to solve this problem and… Full Story >>>
A New Model for Business Success in the New Economy
Here’s the model:
Purpose, Passion, Productivity, and Power => People, Planet, Profit, Prosperity
As entrepreneurs, it’s our responsibility to contribute to shaping the emerging new era of prosperity.
It’s time for new ways of thinking, new business models, new ways of connecting and collaborating with our buyers, our colleagues, our competitors, and other countries.
Focusing one’s:
Purpose
Passion
Power
Productivity
leads to…
Helping people
Healing the… Full Story >>>