This has been an exciting week for me. Yesterday I was speaking at A Women’s Forum on Entrepreneurship in Walkerton Ontario. It was a great group of women and we all had lots of fun. Whether I’m a speaker or a participant, there’s something very invigorating about getting together with other business people. I think […]
Creating a mission statement for a business, particularly when you are a solo-preneur, seems like a wasted effort for a lot of people. I know when I was first asked to create one as part of a coaching program I was in, I resisted. I didn’t know what to say. It took me weeks to
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Whether we are consciously aware of them or not, we all have a core set of personal values that guides our actions. There may be a long list of values that we identify with, but there is a key group, or core values, that truly define us.Values are principles or qualities that are important to
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Since today is the first Family Day holiday here in Ontario – not to mention my birthday – I’ve decided to give myself the day off. Before I do I thought I’d share a link that may be useful. Over the years I’ve intentionally avoided learning any HTML. I didn’t see the need, plus I
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A Blog Carnival is an online blog event that involves several bloggers contributing articles to the host of the Carnival. Like a magazine, a Blog Carnival has contributions around a particular theme. If a blogger you read regularly participates in a Blog Carnival, you may find other bloggers whose content is of interest. I’ve just
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Working from home is great. My commute is across the hall not across town. I don’t have to shovel the driveway first thing if I don’t have plans to go anywhere. Heck, there are days I don’t have to leave the house at all. What’s the down side? There are days I don’t have to
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Audacious: showing no fear; daring; bold; defiant of restraint. I don’t know if it’s just my personality or because I’m Canadian, but being audacious doesn’t come naturally to me. I wait for the light to turn green before crossing, I follow directions and I always colour between the lines. But staying between the lines doesn’t
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Organizational experts tell us the average person spends one hour a day looking for things. We get it – walking into an office filled with piles of papers, files and books is a drain on your productivity. But what about the mental clutter? ADD management coach Jennifer Koretsky says that, “mental clutter is made up
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It arrives in your inbox in the dark of night. You open it. It’s an invitation to join a teleseminar. Your eyes light up. Your pulse quickens. Without thinking, you reach for your credit card. As business owners we need to keep on top of a changing business climate. Things change so quickly, there are
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“What’s going on in general society first happens in sports,” Bruce Rumpf, CEO and President of Job1USA, told me. I must have sounded skeptical so he explained. Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson In 1936 the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany. Jesse Owens, an American track star who also happened to be African American, was
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