Where is Your Focus?
Business is challenging when you focus on the wrong things. Achieve your goals by shifting your focus to what you want.
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What can you do if you’re not ready to follow your dreams?
One of the blessings of being a coach is being able to help people identify and follow their dreams. And the opposite is also true because one of the major challenges of being a coach is meeting people who are so clear about what they want, but they’re afraid or unwilling to go for it….
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One tip that will move you faster into business success
I’m an information junkie and have loads of unread books and information. For a long time, I was addicted to signing up to success and business mailing lists. Anything that promised me “secret” ingredients to getting customers or making money…and I would sign up so fast that I almost gave myself whiplash a number of times. I…
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Double Your Business Income – Part 3: Create a Business Model
In this series of articles on how to double your business income, you’ve seen how powerful it is to go back and look at your business through the eyes of your customer. You’ve also identified ways in which you can improve your customer service experience and start getting more referrals and repeat customers. But there is often…
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3 Steps to Double Your Business Income – Part 1: Customer Service
The year is one month gone and it feels like January just flew away. I can safely bet that you set goals to increase your revenue this year. Maybe you want to double your business income compared to last year. Maybe you shot for the moon and decided to triple, quadruple or even 10x your…
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How to create massive momentum in your business
Whether you run your business as a solopreneur or have employees, you have to find out how to create momentum in your business so that it can grow fast and without too much effort on your part. As the business grows, you’ll also discover that some of the skills and tactics that got you started…
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5 business mistakes I made in 2015 and what they cost me
Statistics have proven that being an entrepreneur is more of a risk than success. Most people who take this path fail. And even those who succeed will end up failing along the way. A lot of times, the failures as a result of the mistakes we make in our businesses. In today’s post, I’ll share the…
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Goal Setting Lessons From 3 Highly Unlikely Sources
Have you ever had a discussion with a totally unlikely source that ended up challenging you to go for more? That’s what happened to me last week and it led to this post. Here’s where it all started… There’s a huge mango tree outside my flat that houses different species of birds, with the most being crows….
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My Secret Formula to SMART Goal Setting
In the last blog post, I shared a simple 5-step solution to setting and achieving your goals for 2016. One of the steps was to make your goals SMART. If you haven’t checked out that post, do so now. Traditionally, SMART stood for: Specific Measurable Achievable (or Attainable) Realistic Time-bound Management experts would, and still do,…
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Are you ready for 2016?
I had an interesting conversation with a former client a few weeks ago. It was early October and she had already surpassed her goals for 2015. She was now winding up her work for 2015 and setting goals for 2016. For my client (let’s call her Mary), any money coming in now is a bonus as her team…
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Women, Money and Relationships
Sometime ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Lisa Muthoni who is a phenomenal woman when it comes to helping women take charge of their money and financial future. In this interview, Lisa talks about women, money and relationships. Today’s article concludes the series on Women and Money. You can read the first 3 articles in this…
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How to create a budget that works
As we continue with the series on women and money, let’s look at how you can create a budget that works for you. You can read the previous articles in this series by clicking the following links: What Are Your Money Habits and How To Figure Out Your Money Leaks. Last week, we looked at the different…