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They so badly want to achieve more success that the blinders are on and they will just say yes to anything that sounds appealing. 5 Essential Habits to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you spend your energy is how you measure your success.” 5 Questions to Catapult out of “Stuckvilleâ€� and Into Massive, Focused Action If you were already a millionaire, what would you be doing differently? Got you thinking didn’t I. That’s the power of a question. So really, what would you be doing differently if every day you got up and went about your business as if you were already a millionaire? 5 Tips to Release Energy Drains So You Can Get Back on The Fast-Track An energy drain is something that happens to you when you compromise your standards, have weak boundaries or allow people to dictate their needs and priorities onto you. Often times the energy leaks out of our life just like a leaky hose. Or worse, like a sieve. 7 Keys to Identifying an Ideal Partnership In the world of small business, it seems there is often a common quest: to find the ideal business partner. Usually this stems from a need to “get rid of” the roles or tasks that we struggle with. Like marketing, finance or sales. 7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Results with Your Own Mastermind Team “Mastermind” is the one of the greatest “secrets” to success. A Mastermind is a group of people who share a common vision and commit to leveraging each other’s brilliance, skills and big thinking to achieve their biggest dreams. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, talked about the power of masterminding almost 100 years ago! When you gather a small group of committed, successful people t 7 Sure-Fire Time Management Tricks To Get More Done Do you know why you don't get all the stuff on your to-do list done? Sometimes it's as simple as a having a strategy for time-blocking. A Dirty Little Secret That's Costing You Your Profit…and Your Sanity It can cost a lot of money to launch a product (and run a business!) The truth is you have to spend money to make money. But at some point, you really must identify HOW MUCH you are willing and able to spend. A Little Secret to Skyrocket Your Success Do you know anyone who over and over again makes poor choices in their life, in their business and particularly, in managing their time? Yes, you probably do. Have you ever found yourself struggling with a decision, not knowing what to do? Maybe you are faced with a poor performance employee who has been loyal yet you know they aren’t working out. Or perhaps you are being offered a chance-of-a-lif Billionaire Leverage Techniques: 5 Tips to Accomplish Your Big Dream Have you ever had a dream so big that you had no idea how to accomplish it? The dream is there, in the background of your mind, gnawing at you and clamoring for your attention. For many busy entrepreneurs, you might start to feel like the dream is slowly dieing. With everything you have to do to generate financial results, you never have time to focus on the dream. You are always busy running y Do You Have A Hobby or a Real Business: 6 Key Indicators To Know the Difference As every business owner knows, almost every business is born from a passion for “some thing” that we think we can do better on our own. The need for freedom, independence and unlimited earning potential gets the better of us and the next thing you know, you are in business for yourself. How Control-Freak-Itis Can Derail Your Success Imagine what it would be like if you could run a profitable six, seven or eight figure business and enjoy as much freedom as you desire? For many, the moment you decide to grow your business you simultaneously think of all the hard work ahead. You begin to question the dream and wonder if it's really worth it. What if you could tap into a simple way to achieve your dream - without having to work m How to Boost Your Bottom Line by Strengthening Your Power Factor Your Power Factor is a combination of your energy, your bandwidth and your support systems. As entrepreneur's, our greatest asset is our creativity and ambition. But if our Power Factor is being compromised, then your bottom line can take the hit. How to Transform Over-Commitment, Way-Too-Busy and Debt: Simple Strategies to Skyrocket Success What’s the number one difference between the hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs barely making it and the top 10% who are wealthy, successful and living a life that they love? How Your Greatest Gifts Can Turn Into The Saboteur That Ruins Your Success Have you ever noticed that the very skills or attributes that you feel most proud of can become your biggest nightmare? Maybe you can relate to this story. Is My Mastermind Having a Meltdown? A mastermind group is a team of people who come together to talk about their business (or sometimes another type of focus like relationships, real estate investments, spiritual growth, etc.) The members of the group come from a like-minded focus to grow and excel in their success. Monkey Management: 3 Simple Solutions to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Sanity Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It’s a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and business owners have. William Oncken, author of Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey, calls it “the monkey on your back.” My Ten Insights to Playing a Bigger Game (Part 1) already surround myself with people playing a bigger game every year. I have a mastermind group who constantly challenges me to think bigger. But what specifically did I do that helped me double my income this year, get asked to speak at multiple conferences and produce three new programs? My Ten Insights to Playing a Bigger Game (Part Two) My insights will give you that golden nugget to play a bigger game in 2007. Six Sanity-Saving Scenarios to Turn a Massive Breakdown into a Powerful Business Breakthrough I've learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening - I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again. Here are six sanity-saving scenarios that can turn that breakdown into a breakthrough. Six Steps To Create An Instant Shift In Your Results What would you do if you knew that you could change your results in an instant? Would you create more money? More fun? More freedom? The ideal relationship? Six Tips to Instantly Master Your Finances by Becoming a Millionaire-Thinker What’s the fastest route from where you are today to your ideal financial status? Becoming a “millionaire-thinker”. Now you may think this means you have to be a millionaire – you don’t! The truth is many people don’t aspire to that level of financial success – and there is nothing wrong with that. That Four Letter Word that Entrepreneurs Avoid That Can Make or Break Your Success Here is the reality. Planning is a critical component to your success. If you fail to plan you might as well plan to fail. When you neglect to plan out your business goals and projects, you are wasting time, money, resources and your sanity! Here is the truth. One of the secrets to six and seven figure success is "doing what works." Planning works. Here are a couple of tips to planning that could Why Entrepreneurs Must Slow Down to Speed Up I know you are probably thinking that slowing down to speed up is an oxy-moron. But it’s true. You have to slow down to speed up your results. Let me explain.When I started my business, I had a brilliant coach named Michael Stratford who had a saying… Slower + Smoother = Faster Why Focusing on the 20 Can Keep You Stuck It's really easy to get caught up and lose perspective when negative information comes your way about what you offer. You put your life-blood into what you create. It's like calling your baby ugly. No one likes to get negative feedback, its human nature. So what do you do when you feel overwhelmed with too much of it? Why You Need To Manage Your Compulsive-Inventor As entrepreneurs, we all have that compelling need to create. It’s part of our genetic code; it’s what makes us willing to do what it takes to be entrepreneurs. Sometimes that compelling need to invent new things gets in the way of what makes us successful. The other day I realized I was feeling kind of tired. Not just physically tired but mentally tired. As I scanned my inner and outer environ	Publish for Free Sign Up For Free Learn More Authors and Writers Submit Articles Submission Guidelines Link to Us Member Login Publishers Article RSS Feeds Link to Us Contact Us Article Aids U Publish Store Article Directories Word Count Utility Search U Publish by: Keyword

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