Category: Business
Are you hiding from the TRUTH of your business?
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Denial is a wonderful thing; it lets you ignore reality until reality punches you in the face. – Profit First We all have something we’re ignoring. Maybe it is the fact that your business isn’t profitable. Maybe it’s the truth that you are bad at customer service. Maybe the truth you hide from is that…
Only Read This if You’re Ready to Take Action
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Money is the most perfect expression of your creativity. If your bank account is low, it’s a reminder that it’s time to get even more creative. – The Prosperous Coach This idea goes well with Profit First which says that if you can’t afford an expense out of your business expense funds, it’s your business…
Your Stupid Waffle Language
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Vagueness allows an escape from responsibility. I can never be “wrong” about anything, because I can always claim to have been misinterpreted. – Academic Language and The Problem of Meaninglessness How do you commit to things with your clients? I know they may not understand every little technical detail of what’s going on. The thing…
How About a 10% Raise
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John tells us to raise our rates 10% which I endorse. Other firms like Stuff and Nonsense used to have double your rate Friday. They won just as much work on Friday as any other day and they had doubled the rates. You probably undervalue yourself. You’re a wizard and you better not forget it.…
Future Positive Thinking
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A few weeks ago I went to a talk with Ryan Walter. He talked all about thinking and four main modes of thinking. Past Positive Past Negative Future Positive Future Negative Really all of these states of thinking are mostly fine. They’re going to happen, and some of the ones that make look bad at…
In Love with The Dream
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Many people are only in love with the results of running a business. At least the perceived results. They don’t want to go get clients. They don’t want to enter receipts. They don’t want to learn how to budget. They just want some magical freedom that comes at the end of doing all those things…
Stop purchasing crap
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In a sense, marketers know us better than we know ourselves. They feed on our insecurities and feelings of inadequacy. Society hijacks our passion and directs it toward material things. But nobody gets to the end of life wishing they had bought more things. – The More of Less I’ve actually seen the quest for…
It’s Time to Find a New Room!!
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If you’re the smartest person in the room, find a new room. Don’t sit around with the same people lamenting your business. Find someone or many people that are successful and hang out with them. If it costs you some money to get access, do it. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re…
The Big Brash Leader Lie!
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It’s a faulty assumption that you need to be big/loud/obvious to lead an organization. This faulty assumption is brought on because that’s the story websites love. The founder that was brash, a bit harsh, and oh so brilliant. Hey, Steve Jobs. Far more of the successful teams out there are run by a quiet manager…
It’s time to have an opinion
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There is an interesting study that looked at how effective managers are. If you were rated as having no distinguishing strengths you were in the thirty-fourth percentile of effectiveness. If you had just one distinguishing strength, you jumped to the sixty-fourth percentile. That’s the difference between the bland generalist, who is good at everything and…
