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How to Fuel Your Fire This Fall
Kevin Dooley via Compfight FALL = The Entrepreneur's New Year That's how one of my clients described this time of year to me yesterday - and I totally agree. Fall is my favourite time of year - ripe with possibilities, fresh starts and pumpkin spice lattes from...
The Isn’t + Is of Going Pro
Going Pro isn’t…. :: Copying your idol’s brand, voice, offers, words just because they’ve been successful :: Doing it only for the money :: Forgetting to do it for the money at all :: Staying addicted to the stories that keep you playing small :: Believing that just...
What to do when you’re under fire
If you're ready to claim your greatness, you'll need to make peace with criticism. Because it's coming. It's the price of admission for being bold and powerful. Here's my simple, surefire way of handling criticism that comes my way. It takes practice, but it works....
My personal story of playing small
Last night, one of my best friends came over for coffee. We caught up, talked kids, hubbies and the pursuit of work and motherhood. As always, funny (and not so funny) memories came up from our past life of being roommates and colleagues in our non-profit...
A Call to Entrepreneurs Everywhere: It’s Time to Take Responsibility for Your Results
I'd like to call forth a movement where every business owner takes full personal responsibility for their results. No more excuses. No more playing small. No more waiting, wondering, pondering or pontificating. There's no denying that taking full responsibility for...
Don’t go to the hardware store for milk
Not everyone gets it. Not everyone in your life understands the journey you’re on or the passion that fuels it. They question. They minimize. They suggest. They imply. They doubt. It can be incredibly disappointing and disheartening to realize that the people we most...
The question you should be asking
Every entrepreneur wants to unlock the answer to this ONE key question: "Why should I buy from you over all the other choices out there?" But there's an equally, if not much more important question to answer that most business owners overlook: "Why should I buy from...
You are enough. Right now.
You are enough. Right now. You don't need more knowledge. You don't need more degrees. You don't need more expertise or credentials or letters after your name. You don't need to be an A-lister or a B-lister. You don't need to have 10,000 Twitter Followers or 1,000...
Overcoming Fear – How to Gain New Joint Venture Partners, Guest Blog Posts, and more!
*This is a guest post from Cheryl Woodhouse* Your palms are sweating. Your heart is racing. You can’t think straight, let alone type an email or pick up the phone. You have been procrastinating for hours, days, weeks, or even months. You know that this potential...
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