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It's easy to dabble. There are so many things to try in this big wide world we live in. Pick your entertainment, and you can find the Youtube channel of choice to discover how to cook, do comedy, build furniture or play a new sport. My kids visited
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There's a game that I see played out with startups, small businesses and corporations. And it's a game that can full manages, employers and owners with relative ease. I'm not sure why people like to be fooled. But the game is ubiquitous. When I
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If you want to build and operate a small business based on some work you are familiar with, then you don't have to worry about scaling up. Working on a small scale is perfectly fine. It's in fact, preferable, for so many business people and entrepreneurs.
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When I write, I'm terrified. I want to be able to say something new. I want to say it in an entertaining way. I want to be scared to hit publish. (If I'm not scared to write it, nobody will be scared - or even shocked
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ~ Gustave Flaubert Consider those thoughts. It's not about productivity. It's not about tools. It's not about all the options. It's about getting the work
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower When you look at most disappointments, it comes down to missed expectations. You thought something was going to happen or was supposed to happen but it didn't. It'
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If you are an entrepreneur or investor in a business, it is so critical to heed the advice and framework that Robert Kiyosaki shares in his appeal that systems, not products, need your focus. Simply put, "Money always follows management." It's takes a special person to
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If you are scaling your business, there's a lot you can do with automation and technology these days. The world is at your fingertips and you can build systems, processes and platforms for growth. The exciting part of entrepreneurship and business growth is the learning, growing and work
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Ever see chasers? Those people who constantly pursue others and give of themselves to people that mistreat them and others? It's pretty pathetic to watch that kind of misplaced loyalty. Giving your best to people that take from you or cost much more emotionally than other excellent people
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I often think about what motivates people. And when I see the opportunities in the new economy to remain modular, independent and agile, it confuses me about why people tend to gravitate towards a band, a team per se, rather than learn to be a solopreneur who is independent. We
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What if you started with that assumption that most things in life simply do not matter? It can be shocking, I know, if you are used to attending to every demand, every item and every relationship. What if you assumed that only a few projects make a real impact? Or
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I get it. You need to pay the bills. You may know some things because you got a degree in a subject, had your first job pushing the envelope on technical work you dread, or a host of other reasons for being where you are at. And if you have