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Ideas and Advice for Getting Unstuck in your Career
Are You Bold Like Peter, or a Fool Like Peter?
The story of Peter walking on water is a great example of taking action.
How to Design Your First Information Products
In this post I walk you through the design of an information product using the example of “how to effectively write email.”
How to Find the Products YOU Should Offer
How can YOU make more money serving those YOU want to serve? What is the secret? . In the last two posts about making money and having freedom, I showed various ways to sell information and products over the internet. I was by no means complete, but I wanted to give...
Five Ways to Make Money and Have Freedom
Did you get any ideas of what you can sell from last week's post on making money doing what you do? This week, I wanted to provide some examples of the many places where people sell information products. I have put them in five categories. 1. How to Information and...
Make Money Doing What You Do
Can you make money outside of your day job? Can you make more money on the side than you do on the job? I am always amazed at the number of people who act as if they have nothing to offer to the world outside of getting a job. In fact, people making over $100,000 per...
How Secure is Your Income?
Do you think being an employee is more secure than being an entrepreneur? During my workshops, participants often tell me they need to have job security. They are implying that the entrepreneurial lifestyle is not for them. But which has more risk? As an employee, you...
How to Get a Raise Without Asking for One
Most people do not like asking for a raise, even though they want one. But perhaps asking for a raise is the wrong way to get a raise. Instead of asking for a raise, ask questions your leaders WILL want to talk about. Try these steps and see what happens....
Your Next Action to Accomplish a Goal
Do you feel like your goals are pipe dreams? Do you wonder where to start? Does accomplishing them seem overwhelming? I have found the key to keep me moving toward my goals instead of wallowing in the mud. And I would like to share it with you! What is stopping you...
Do I Need a Business License or LLC?
One of the most common questions I get from new entrepreneurs is “what do I do first?” They want to know if they should you start with the business license or the LLC. But that is the wrong question. These are the questions I ask: Why are you doing this business? If...
Is Success Really Tied to Goals?
Any book or speaker on success points out the need for setting goals. In fact, if you have heard many motivational speakers or read books on the topic, you have heard the story of the 3% many times. It goes something like this. Back in 1953, the graduates of Yale...
Overplanning or Just Planning Insanity?
The other day Lea told me I needed a planning intervention. She told me that since I had moved to a new method of managing my time and my projects, I was really busy planning, but getting a lot less done! WOW! That stings! Especially since I had invested a lot of...
You
Your favorite subject - YOU. You talk about YOU. You think about YOU. You tell people about YOU. Right? This is the way you SHOULD do, especially when your are operating as your personal Chief Marketing Officer! But YOU are SO mistaken! STOP TALKING ABOUT YOU! If you...
Taking Control: The Path to Hope, and Maybe Even Success
You know that feeling of being overwhelmed. Your whole world seems to be spinning out of control. Things are coming faster than you can deal with them. Perhaps you have an illness, such as diabetes, which leaves you feeling hopeless and out of control. Perhaps a...
Daymond John’s Shark Points
While at Growco I was tweeting out the five shark points presented by Daymond John from Shark Tank. I was convicted to start tweeting off my Droid since everyone around me was doing it! Social pressure, I guess. But some of you have told me that I missed the points. I...
Becoming an Agile Earner
Back to the story. Last week I was at Growco, so my post was about some ideas I took away from the conference. One of these ideas, being an agile entrepreneur, will appear here today! For your calling search, you should have done all the background work and...
Mistakes We All Make
I spent the last few days in New Orleans at Growco - and wanted to share some things I learned. As I listened and participated, I could not help but think of you and how what was being said applies to all of us. GROWCO First, in case you are not familiar with Growco,...
Who is Living Your Dream?
Last week I continued the process of moving from calling (things you love to do) to career (things that pay you money). I have been using myself as an example for two reasons: I am always rethinking where I am going and based on my earlier post this year I decided to...
Connecting Your Calling to Money and Career
My previous post on finding your calling walked you through the process of finding work you love - or finding your calling. My example was me! As you should have guessed, that post was part of a process which defines your calling, career, and job. I have seen this...