Archive for Motivation
Are you the thermostat or the thermometer?
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it comes to running a business, belonging to an organization or living your life, there are ups and downs – things beyond your control that impact you directly.
For your business, the economy can tank, making it harder for you to make sales.
A trusted employee can leave. A marketing strategy that’s worked for years can suddenly stop sending you new business.
Whenever things go bad, you have a choice – to be a thermostat or a thermometer. A thermometer reports current conditions – what’s the temperature right now. That’s all it can do.
A thermostat however, Read More→
Motivational Mondays: What gets you out of bed?
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Welcome to a new feature here at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur: Motivational Mondays. Since I work from home, I know how important self motivation is. There’s no boss looking over my shoulder to see that I get my work done.
People who start their own businesses tend to be a highly motivated group. That’s why we started a business in the first place; we weren’t content to be following someone else’s agenda. We have goals, dreams or ideas we wanted to pursue and we wanted to pursue them in our own way.
On the other hand, I also know that sometimes motivation can be a challenge. When you work for someone else you get up and go to work because you have to or lose your job. When you work for yourself, you have to find a different way to stay motivated. Read More→
Success Begins After 40 – Why it’s not too late to build your business
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I’ve been listening to an audio version of the updated for the 21st Century edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think and Grow Rich
. For some reason I resisted reading this book for many years but about a year ago I decided I needed to focus on making money so I bought the audio book. I’m glad I did.
A bright spot in the book is Hill`s assertion that most people don’t become a success until after 40 or even 50. In fact, he says “For the average person the greatest capacity to create is between 40 and 60”. I suspect that if Hill were alive today he’d expand that upper end.
Why are people not able to achieve before their 40s or 50s? According to Hill, Read More→
Don’t wait for perfection
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Do you have a project or a new product in mind but you’re not quite ready to get started on it? Perhaps you’re waiting for a particular resource, or a chunk of free time to work on it. Or perhaps you need some extra money to put your plan into action.
I know because I’ve done this too – waited for the time/situation to be just perfect before getting started.
But then last week I was reading Prince Charming Isnt Coming
: How Women Get Smart About Money by Barbara Stanny. In this book, Stanny talks about how women often wait for a man to look after their finances for them. There is one particular passage that jumped out at me.
“Please note: “Mr. Right” or “Prince Charming” need not be a man, or even a person. Our prince could be an ideal job, an insurance settlement, the lottery jackpot, or just an amorphous “something” – anything that we fantasize will save us financially. To become genuinely smart with money, we must get to the point where we can say with total conviction, I can do it myself.
This passage really grabbed me by the throat and made me realize that there are a number of projects I’ve had on hold because I didn’t have everything perfect. Read More→
Small business summer-time blues
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Working from home is sometimes a challenge in the summer. Yes, there’s the fact that I have no air conditioning and my office is on the 2nd floor. (Last week’s heat wave in eastern Canada and U.S. was brutal).
There’s also my teenage son who is home from school and around the house. Plus there’s the sun shining and I want to be outside.
As a result, there are some days where sitting at my desk staring at my computer seems unbearable.
But I still need to work. The mortgage still needs to be paid and we have this pesky little addition to food.
So, what’s a home-based entrepreneur to do?
I posed this question to my network and got some interesting answers. Read More→
