How to Get Fear Off Your Business’ Back
I’m sure that, like me, you never get scared in business. Of course, we all know that’s a bunch of baloney- we all get scared. Depending on where your business is, fear might even be a daily visitor.
Is this a curse? Are you doomed? Is something wrong?
You have to start dealing with fear much differently. But how? If you ignore fear, it ambushes you at night. If you let the fear in, it’s easy to freeze and collapse.
There is another way to deal with fear, and get it off your back.
How to Be Unique When What You Do Isn't Yours
When you’re lost and it’s dark out, it’s a good idea to follow someone very closely- especially if they know where they’re going. But, after a while, it will be time to back off and realize that you aren’t going where they’re going- you’re going where you’re going.
Unfortunately, many business owners don’t back off and go their own way before they’ve become intimate with the rear bumper just ahead.
How Homer Can Teach Your Writing to Last 2,700 Years
How well you write is critical to your business. Writing is what is on your website, in your advertising, your marketing copy, any articles you write, even email responses. And, chances are, most of the writing you read tends to be a little boring.
Is yours any different from the boring masses?
Here’s your choice: feed your writing to the vultures, or jazz it up by learning from someone whose words have lasted 2700 years.
How to Win Compassionately
The sword tip waved within a few inches of my belly. I stood there, waiting, and then- clang- she rushed at me, forcing me back down the strip, and made the touch on me. I lost. I had beaten her easily for a few months- which is no surprise, because I used to fence competitively. […]
Is "Being In Service" Feeling a Little Mealy-Mouthed?
I just want to help people Even if it’s completely true for you (and I hope it is), it may start to sound a little mealy-mouthed. A certain -zing- missing.
What’s missing?
How to win.
Bus isn’t winning heartless, heedless and hateful?
Why You Should Sell Something Before It Exists
What takes about 18 months for larger corporations, but 30 or 40 years for your average small business owner? Okay, it’s not really true, but sometimes it seems that it takes forever for you to take a new idea for a business offer or product from conception to finished product.
The answer to finally finishing? The answer will not only help you make your customers happier, and put more money in your bank account, but it’s also a suprising spiritual development technique.
How to Serve a Feast That Keeps 'em Coming
What’s the real reason I buy more Medjool dates? (Boy do I love those dates!) It’s not because I like them. It’s not what they do for my health. It’s more obvious than that.
The answer is the real key to repeat business, more referrals, and being of better service to your customers. Do you know what it is?
How to Hand Off Your Most Hated Business Tasks
No one likes everything you need to do to run your business. And, even if you did, there is no way you could do it all. So, the natural answer is to delegate, handoff, hire an assistant, whatever you need to do to offload those tasks.
The problem is, that the tasks you hate the most are the most difficult to hand off, and the ones most likely to bite you in back afterwards. For instance, I had to have an ENTIRE YEAR of bookkeeping redone when I first hired out that task. Why? And, more importantly, how do you avoid it?
Are You Toothpaste?
Jennifer Louden is sharing in her blog her very vulnerable and authentic search for ‘what do I do?’ It’s been inspiring and a real honor to follow such a sincere seeker in asking the tough questions of her heart- her dialogue with herself, with God, with her fans and supporters- has been one of the threads that has kept me honest with my own heart these past weeks.
Spring Cleaning
Anyway, spring cleaning is kind of a cliché, but that’s what we’re up to. Instead of just vacuming around furniture and poking the end of the vacume thingy into the corner, we actually are pulling furniture away from the wall and getting behind it. Clearing out the magazine rack. I even dumped a bunch of old computer files into the little virtual dustbin. Sweeping the basement, for goshsakes.