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Image by Photo by Deanna Ritchie on Unsplash 5 Ways To Get Your Business To Run Without You Some owners focus on growing their profits, while others are obsessed with sales goals. Have you ever considered making it your primary goal to set up your business so that it can thrive and grow without you? A business not dependent on its owner is the ultimate asset to own. It allows you complete control over your time so that you can choose the projects you get involved in and the v

Most of us have heard the phrase, “Slow and steady wins the race” in our childhood. When we were young, we could easily relate it to our lives, but now we have grown up, and the phrase seems irrelevant. We see people running around in a hurry all the time. It looks like everyone is into some race that can only be won by being faster and doing more. I don’t know about you, but I am not able to see the end of this race. Have you ever reached the finish line? Isn’t there always

Recently someone asked me for interesting advise. The person wanted to know what I would recommend to someone, who generally feels a certain kind of dread, when thinking of scheduling time in a calendar or creating various to-do lists. The concern was that doing so (using a calendar and to-do lists) would create an environment that suffocates the ability to be spontaneous and “in the flow.” In that person’s mind the type of rigidity that using a calendar brings with it would

A common mistake when thinking about task management is to think that what needs to be managed are the things we are doing, when it is actually the things we are not doing that need to be managed. One of the biggest factors for why we have stress in our lives are commitments - either commitments with ourselves or commitments with others. The commitments themselves are not the cause of stress; it’s the fear of not keeping a commitment that creates stress. In reality we are oft

Most of us are aware that incomplete tasks suck our energy. They are lingering over us, and we kind of know we should be doing something about them, but in the end they are just not that important to ever make it a top priority for any given day. We have been moving them from one week to the next to the next, first with the best intention to get them done but after a while more because we know that someday it is something that we want to do and we don’t want to loose the task

Successful people have one thing in common – they are highly productive. To run a successful business your own productivity is directly tied to the productivity and the profitability of our business. As business owners we are all busy, very busy, but we also all know that busyness does not equal true productivity. So how do we find out how productive we really are? With everything that we want to improve, we have to measure. In this case we are doing it through a series of se

First of all I want to wish you all a prosperous and successful New Year. This post is a more personal one... Over the holidays I met many of my readers and one of things you mentioned was that you’d like to hear more about myself – what I am working on, my challenges, my goals, my successes, etc. I really appreciate your feedback and encouragement. Going forward I will take your advise to heart and share more authentically about my personal life. Maybe not in every post, but

As we are completing 2014 and approach 2015 it’s time for a thorough evaluation of what we have accomplished this year. It’s important to notice that everything we have accomplished is because we have been proactive – whether it is through our actions or our intentions. I have found that there are different perspectives from which we have to evaluate our progress. We need to review our budgets. We need to review our growth/expansion timeline. We need to review the quality of

Today we are going to look at one of the biggest traps that many of us small business owners fall into – the tendency to accept information we hear or read to be true without proper examination. Areas in which this especially applies in are: Goal Setting Time Management Marketing Strategies Personal Development Lifestyle changes It happens all the time: we read a book, a blog, listen to an audio book and we hear great information that strikes a chord inside. Immediately we th

When you organize your office and work environment, you optimize your surroundings for productivity and increase your ability to work effectively. Benefits Of An Organized Office Better communication. An organized office environment encourages better internal communication. With a central area for staff communication, it is easier to share sales news, track targets, and plan and monitor projects. A manageable budget. Organized spaces will allow you to quickly see what you hav

Last week I was doing a Business Breakthrough Session with one of my clients, helping him to get his business to the next level. Towards the end of the meeting we talked about implementation of what we had just mapped out and got to speak about the topic of time management. My bottom line approach to time management is to manage time the same way you would handle money. You budget for it and expect a high Net Profit. If time is your most valuable resource, then why would you

It’s been almost three years since my family and I moved into our new home. That was also right around the time when I got serious about building a successful coaching business which of course took the majority of my time. Just recently, during my family's visit from Switzerland, I started to allow myself to think about all the “upgrades” and improvements that we want to make to our house. I realized that building a house and building a business have a lot of things in common

Planning for my "start of the summer vacation" I had no idea how important that vacation would turn out to be. I spent one week in the beautiful Utah National Parks (Arches, Canyonlands and Zion), explored nature and took a break from everything. For so many of us it’s easy to get caught up in the hamster wheel of running a small business. But, although it may seem impossible or even like a waste of time, it’s important to take a break and let our body and mind completely rel

As CEOs of our businesses we need to constantly be adamant about getting more from our current resources and efforts. One of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make is staying in Status Quo. In order to be successful in our business we must embrace the philosophy that, “Good enough never is.” We become more productive and profitable by maximizing our results (output, service, deliverables) while minimizing the amount of time, effort, risk, money and energy we use to pr

Isn’t it interesting that even though we all know that making excuses is detrimental to our success, we still make them every day? Some of us are aware that we make them, some of us not yet. A big part of the journey to success is to change the habit of making excuses. Two things that all excuses have in common are that they keep us from doing and achieving what we truly want. They also have a tendency to expand in every aspect of our lives. If we start making excuses in one