Win at business and still be a failure
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I want you to be a success at work. I want you to have the business you’ve dreamed of but lets be totally clear. If you win at work and aren’t a good parent, friend, spouse, partner I think you’ve failed. How many business articles have you read this week? How many business books have…
Why you may not want to say sorry
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Many times saying sorry is more about you feeling better than actually resolving things with your clients. Today I’ll talk about what I think you should be doing.
How do you become so good you can’t be ignored?
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Commonly heard advice for anyone looking for success is “Follow your passion”. The theory goes that if you’re passionate about it, there should be enough others that will come alongside you and give you money for that passion. The siren song of living your passion is so strong. You’re passionate about rock climbing, so you…
You have no one to blame for your terrible job but yourself
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Why did you start your business? For most of us it was to gain more freedom. We were tired of following asinine rules. We were tired of working to put more money in the pockets of others as they collected on the value we provided. We wanted to spend more time with our kids and…
How family and business work together
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Don’t fool yourself, your work and your family are not separate. They’re especially not separate if you run your own business. Today my wife and I talk about how we work out running a business together.
Learn how to reach past the things that are hard and master them
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We all have things that are easy for us. Maybe you are built to be a runner and it’s always felt easy. Maybe you love to get up in front of people as a speaker. The flip side to the ease with which some tasks come to us is that other things are very difficult.…
How to stop being normal and break from average
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I had a dream last night. In this dream I was…average. I had 2.5 kids (so yes, half a kid). I had a nice car, but I couldn’t really afford it — I just could make the payments. I went into a decent job with a decent office and did okay work. Nothing earth-shattering, but…
Should you just start a business out of school?
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So you’re just about finished and ready to head in to the big world of work. Should you dive right in and start a business?
How I make my book reading work for me
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My reading goal this year is the same as the last two years — to read 60 books, 45 of them focused on personal improvement in some fashion. Even amongst people who identify as readers, that’s a lot of books. One of my friends recently scoffed at reading 45 books for personal improvement in a…
How does my tracked time match with my plan?
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I’ve said before that billing by the hour is a bad idea. It allows your client to save money by insisting tasks should take less time. Therefore, if you want to earn more, then tasks need to take longer. While billing by the hour is a bad idea, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t track your…
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