Seven ways to become a crabby broke-ass — part two

[For part one of this article, see the blog post for Monday, December 8.]

Our third suggestion is to be sure to treat all your clients or customers as consumers, and nothing more. They are simply a source of money. Your sole goal is to reach into their wallets (figuratively or digitally please!); not to truly provide value or a service. Your objective is to get those rubes to part with their dollars. That’s what you believe capitalism at its core speaks to you. Dollar signs are where it’s at. If you fix this belief firmly in your mind, it may help you trundle along the path towards the welfare line. [Read more…]

Name it and Tame it!―Gremlins

Your gremlin is your inner critic. It is the most powerful limiting belief. It is that annoying little voice that tries to convince you to play small. Perhaps it is your mother’s voice or the voice of your 9th grade Algebra teacher. Regardless, the bottom-line message from your gremlin is that you are not good enough. Your gremlin might say things like play it safe, don’t try, and that it is safer to stay where you are. It can stop you in your tracks when you are on the edge of success. [Read more…]

Do small steps yield significant results?

We’ve heard this adage before. But is it true? [Read more…]

Your business persona

We all create façades. We may interact with our parents one way, our friends another way, and our colleagues in the workplace a third way. A well-adjusted person is able to adapt his or her modes of interaction, based upon with whom he or she is interacting, without uprooting foundational beliefs or core principles. [Read more…]

Why should I try again?

I hear this all the time from folks who have become too scared to try the entrepreneurial path. These people created a business once, and it did not succeed. From one failure, a conclusion is reached that entrepreneurship is never to be pursued again. [Read more…]

Will education make you successful?

You discover an interesting phenomenon when you study the lives of successful entrepreneurs. While some of them may have postgraduate degrees, and impressive records of academic achievement, many do not. Quite often, you find that these individuals utilized non-traditional means of educating themselves. [Read more…]

Are you a commodity?

As a small entrepreneur, you can sometimes be overwhelmed by the amount of competition in the marketplace. How do you make yourself and your company stand out? This is especially problematic if what you are selling is a fairly common product or service. [Read more…]

Go out and succeed wildly!

Remember, only you can decide how to operate your business, and what steps you need to take to make it a success. And isn’t that the American way, and the American dream? [Read more…]

Are you a creative entrepreneur?

The successful entrepreneur cannot merely be a good technician. Creativity must play a role. It sets you apart from your competitors. Not so crazily apart that people shake their head and wonder what the hell you’re up to. But enough apart that you have a distinctive approach. And hopefully that distinctive approach will be the one that sets you apart from others who are launching or have launched their concerns. [Read more…]

Perhaps the most critical tool for success is . . .

Long gone are the days when Emotional Intelligence was seen as flowery add-on to corporate training seminars or as something that would be nice, but not necessary, for a firm’s success. These assumptions about EI in the workplace are rapidly being put to rest as more and more organizations – from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, solo entrepreneurs to non-profit organizations – realize the importance of having self or staff that has been trained in emotional intelligence strategies, and who know how to navigate coworkers’, colleagues’ and clients’ emotional trigger points. By doing so, better outcomes are achieved, and the organization as a whole, whether large or small, becomes more successful.  [Read more…]

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