If you want your message to come across, practice
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You can’t just show up and ‘wing it’, not if you want your message to land. Today I’m going to talk about practising before you talk to your prospects so that you can turn them into clients.
How To Stop Avoiding Hard Work So You Can Become The Master You Long To Be
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You didn’t start a business to be mediocre. To be one of the many that can do what you do. You’re not hoping to be just another designer or another theme developer. You never planned to be a generic writer or a dime a dozen coach. When you started, you wanted to be a master.…
Kim Doyal talks about how your business brings you space
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Kim and I talk about how after the death of her husband, she found a business that brought her the space needed to be a single parent. You can find Kim at The WP Chick. Links Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday Danielle Laporte Pivot 48 Days to the Work You Love
The Old Business Profit Equation Is Broken, Take Profit First
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When you start a business, you dream of one that lets you live the life you want to live. You joke and say it’s sitting on the beach drinking adult beverages, but that’s not what most people are striving for. Knowing that you can pay your bills, live comfortable and take the vacations you want…
Do you have a secret life like Walter Mitty?
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There is a great movie called The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It has dreams that weren’t met and adventure. It’s a great analogy for where many business owners are. They dreamed of an amazing business, but then life started happening and they’ve been carried along to something that’s good. Good is…okay, but that’s not…
How The Story Of A Pencil Will Make You Think Hard About Your Place
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What does a pencil mean to you? Maybe you don’t use a pencil, so let’s make it a pen or your preferred writing instrument. As I look around my desk I see 2 pens, and a few pencils plus a permanent marker. If I empty my pockets I find another pen and if I look…
How do you 2x your results in half the time?
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How do you get 2 times the results in half the effort? – Profit First Today I talk about this thought experiment found in Profit First. Spending time on these thoughts can help you transform your business because they require huge changes in how you run your business. Are you ready to make huge changes?
Every day of work can’t be a good day
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We like to dream that every day running a business can be a good day, but it can’t. Today I go a bit deeper in to how some of the days have been going for me lately. They haven’t been the days I had hoped when I started a business.
Business change, make sure you have a plan to pivot effectively
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Most of us have heard that people won’t be working one job for their whole life. In fact if you’ve been doing the same thing for more than 2 – 5 years employers are starting to wonder what’s wrong with you. Where a 180 in a career focus was once seen as a black mark…
This is not a mistake, it’s a change
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There is no mistake today, there is no blog post. While I did not love the book Pivot (my review will come out in a bit) one great idea in it was to run pilots. For a while now I’ve looked at my content and wondered if I would read it. I make a point…
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