This Business Week article draws distinctions about women and how they build businesses. I think the observations are valid based on my own coaching experience but it is not just women who are starting a business because they want control over their lifestyle, wanting more freedom, flexibility, and control.
For example, they [women] manage growth so [...]

My friend Rosa Say has been writing up a storm lately, today she was on a similar wavelength in writing the Not-so-Secret Weapon of the Self-Employed. In this article I state that we need mental toughness while Rosa states that we need to “believe in ourselves.”
For instance, one of those obstacles, actually a whole category [...]

I had the opportunity recently to speak to a group of employees about what a business coach does.
This exercise really opened my eyes. I did not realize that I had taken for granted that people know what a business coach does. So this was definitely a helpful exercise.
When writing the description I started by talking [...]

“To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.” – Bernard Edmonds, author.
I was tagged today by Dwayne Melancon [...]

I started playing around with entrepreneurship since the age of 21. I always knew I would be in business, it just took me decades to sort out what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Being an entrepreneur was not encouraged despite the fact that my father and grandfather were both entrepreneurs.
I am noticing that [...]

Small business owners’ sense of identity is tightly wrapped up in their business. This is a good thing and it can also become a stumbling block.
How is an entrepreneur different from a corporate employee in planning for retirement?
The main difference is in ego investment — psychological involvement in the business. Small-business owners and entrepreneurs are [...]

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” – Stephen A. Brennan, American basketball coach
We can not anticipate or expect that which we do not believe. Successful salespeople simply have [...]

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“If we allow our emotions to deplete our energy, we have no energy to change our life or to give to others.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
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How many times have you heard this phrase? “Don’t work in the business, work on it.”
I bet you have heard that phrase [...]

I was watching the Dolly Parton biography today on the Biography channel. I knew Dolly Parton is one of the most prolific song writers in the world but there was a lot I did not know.
Parton was born in 1946 at Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie [...]

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Have you ever struggled with choosing and setting your priorities? Have you given up on time management? The life of a business owner and entrepreneur is complex.
On any particular day business owners have to deal with marketing, sales, human resources, financial management, customer service, increasing profits, systems, [...]