Category Archives: Starting up your own business

Small Business Success: Motivation Alone Is Not Enough

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Small business success encompasses many things.  Most importantly, your foundation for small business success is based on your motivation.  Your motivation directs you to do whatever you think is valuable.  But to have the small business success you desire, motivation alone is not enough.   Read More

Small Business Success: Raising Your Standards

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To move forward and have the small business success you desire it is important that you get out of your comfort zone. The comfort zone can be the zone of mediocrity. Raising your standards will get you out of the comfort zone and move you forward to small business success. Read More

Small Business Success: Facing The Enemy From Within–Fear

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To achieve small business success we must face the enemies from within. The number one enemy is fear. Learn some useful tips about where fear comes from and how to overcome it to achieve small business success. Read More

Small Business Success: Are You Trying To Flying Solo?

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Are you trying to fly solo? Too often I have heard smart business people say that the secret to small business success is if you want things done right then you have to do it yourself.  If you think about it that is a no growth formula.    In fact, it is the formula for small Read More

Success, Satisfaction, Attitude, Input, Output And Reward

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Success? Satisfaction? Input? Output? Reward?  As a twelve year old boy, I had a negative attitude about hard work.  Hey, it was all about play.  Success and satisfaction were more about getting what I wanted when I wanted it.  And, I hadn’t given much thought to input, output and reward.  On this particular day I had Read More

The Tipping Point To Business Success: One More Time..A Little Bit More

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Last week I saw first hand about the tipping point to business success.  It is truly about one more time and a little bit more. I was collaborating with a business owner.  At the beginning of the year business was slow.  In fact, it was the worst it had been in years.  And, the worst Read More

Attitude And Small Business Success: Input, Output, Reward

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Attitude!  Keeping your attitude in the right place is critical to running a successful small business.  Owning your own business is like going to school.  There is always something you can learn.  Before we start learning lessons in business, very often the best lessons we learn are as children.  I have had many things from my Read More

Attitude and Small Business Success: The Connection

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I was at a small business seminar several years ago when the speaker in talking about attitude stated that “attitude is everything.”  Whether we agree with that statement or not, I believe we would agree that attitude is extremely important in terms of the success, happiness and fulfillment you will receive in life.   Have you Read More

Success In Business And Life: It’s About Being Above Average

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Seldom will your income, happiness, sense of fulfillment and the quality of your relationships exceed your personal development. This is true whether you have a small business or work for a company.  If you see yourself as an average person what is going to make you stand out and attract more than the next person?  Life Read More

Small Business Success: Is It Important Or Is It Critical?

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One component of small business success is to know the difference between what is important and what is critical.  If I asked you which you should do first what would be your answer? Without any context your answer would be to do what is critical because it has a greater sense of urgency.  What is Read More