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If your business is managing you, you will miss opportunities to grow and you will miss the best part of business ownership. Remember the core reason why you started your own business. You wanted flexibility; you wanted to create your own destiny. Well, somewhere along the road your business becam Read More

I think that many of us as small business owners make this mistake: we forget that in order for us to be successful we can’t be a jack of all trades. We have to be experts of our own business. Whether that is a trade, business service, retail store, or restaurant, our time needs to be spent doing w Read More

Many companies are actually losing face over their hiring practices and they may not even know it. Ask yourself: what could be a positive outcome of attracting the attention of hundreds of people and then ignoring them? Read More

As a small business consultant, I have a real heart and passion for helping small businesses succeed. Unfortunately, this often gets me in trouble. I find myself wanting to help the business in front of me succeed more than I want my own success. This may seem like a weird problem to have at first Read More

What’s in your heart will always directly affect your business. Joy, optimism, faith, servitude, encouragement…all these things lead to a heart, body, mind, and business ready to take on the challenges and opportunities of the world. On the other hand, fear, regret, distrust, egotism, and selfishne Read More

I often wonder if we have complicated ourselves out of common sense. It seems like the more “sophisticated” we get, the less we think about the simple things like trust, fairness, and integrity. With all our fancy theories and complicated solutions about business, at the end of the day, all we are Read More

Life is not meant to be lived switching between work mode and zone-out mode, yet so many of us live out our days with no more aspiration than to make it home to our couches. Read More

Rather we are talking business or personal, there is nothing that can insight more fear and dread than BILLS! Let’s just face the truth. Read More

Your Sales are dropping, customers are sparse, and employees twiddle their thumbs (whatever that looks like). First gut reaction; cut costs! Whoever said that you should always follow your gut had no clue. Let’s follow this thought through. My sales have dropped so I am going to cut needed resource Read More

They say in business and in life “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But does it really? It can just as easily make you bitter, scared, cynical, depressed, or hopeless. Life is full of trials and so we desperately do what we can to find purpose or meaning within our struggles. Read More