Blog – Category Business
How To Find The Business Style That Works For You
It has happened to all of us. Some ideas—even really good ones—just don’t work out sometimes. We come up with a great idea and are close to signing a new client or securing a partnership and then, just like that, the opportunity is gone. Have you ever considered that...
Turn Your Great Business Ideas Into Reality
Isn’t it the truth that we have these great ideas but somehow they get lost in the shuffle? As time goes by, these great ideas wane from our consciousness and soon they are forgotten. But let’s look a little deeper into how you can actualize those ideas. The Nike...
How To Create An Effective Marketing Plan
As a career coach, the most commonly asked questions I get are: what is the effectiveness of marketing, should I do more and how do I measure the success of my campaigns? Marketing is an important aspect for any business. Dan Kennedy, one of the most recognized and...
Instead Of Fearing Change, Focus On Its Positive Aspects
It has been a tough year for almost everyone, but doesn’t if feel as if things are moving forward again? The financial markets are recovering, housing prices are stabilizing and now we would like nothing better than getting back to conducting business as usual. The...
Why Setting Goals Is So Important
We usually think of the New Year as the time to set goals and figure out what we want to achieve. But right now is a good time to check in on those goals and determine if they’re realistic and attainable. Of course there are the obvious ones: you want to be happy,...
Working Out Problems At Work With Effective Communication
Recently, I had a spirited discussion with a woman who works for me who had made some mistakes I just had to address. Our exchange was tense at times, and we eventually worked things out, but the most interesting thing to come out of it was what we learned from the...
How Good Habits Will Improve Your Success
Have you ever caught yourself doing something that doesn’t really work, but then you still do it over and over again? I know I have. In our personal and business lives we sometimes find ourselves stuck with ineffective habits—even when we know better. Other times we...
How To Tweak Your Thinking
Thoughts are powerful. They create feelings and take form in our lives in ways we like and don’t like. One of the aspects of my business is that I pay very close attention to my way of thinking. Since I first read the book “The Power of Positive Thinking” in my 20s, I...
Find The Magic Again in What You Do
The road traveled can be a tough one. We all go through some pretty heaving things during our lives that can derail us. It’s happened to me several times, and no matter what is going wrong, if I can remember, even for a second, that life is made up of rhythms or...
CASH is the Essential Four-Letter Word
It’s easy to find people who will critique your business and tell you how to run it. But no one actually explains the hard part: how to make money. I know many women entrepreneurs who, like me, tend to focus on the creative side of business, with a thousand new ideas...
Interpreting Ego-RHYTHMs™
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine that you could step out of your body and fly up into the sky. You could take a look at your life from a bird’s-eye perspective, as we did in the exercise...
Personal Affirmations (“Live,” continued)
"An idea can be truly profound but it is useless unless used." ~ Richard Bach Just saying that you want to live in the now sometimes isn't enough for many of us. As with most things, practice helps us get better – whether it's physical training, music, even cooking....
Betrayal-and Beyond
You know, you sometimes see things too late. This is how we learn – and a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacking is natural. But there are times when you trust, and you fall because of that trust. And you're hurt. And you have to move on through that hurt. It happened...