Hiring the right people is the most important thing a small business owner does. Each hire is critical, and making a bad choice can cost you thousands of dollars, hours of your time, and potentially harm your business. If you are tired of struggling with hiring, a small shift in perspective will produce big results.[…]
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and everyone is focused on love—either celebrating it or longing for it. As a small business owner, you probably feel this way all the time: either you have the right people and celebrate their success, or you long to find the right people and hope that someday you’ll get lucky and[…]
I’ve written many times about effective recruiting processes and how to implement them in your business. I hear from clients and my insightful community that you understand the concepts; it’s putting them into practice where you run into difficulty. The key to implementation is to change your behavior. Unfortunately, many of us have developed habits[…]
by Rebecca Barnes-Hogg We are now a couple of weeks into the new year and most of those shiny New Year’s resolutions have been trampled in the dust. You may even have an occasional pang of guilt about discarding your resolution so quickly. You might take comfort in knowing that statistics prove resolutions never work.[…]
Welcome Guest Expert Summer Turner! An experienced teacher and trainer, Summer Turner combines brain science, psychology, creativity and spirituality to help introverted businesswomen create meaningful success from inside their comfort zone. Visit her website to learn more about how Summer helps introverted womanpreneurs who want a life and business of Ease and Flow in spiritual, personal, and[…]
I went to the beach this weekend. For those of you who had to deal with snow, I’m sorry. While I was relaxing and enjoying the sound of the waves and gulls, a young girl about two years old and her father arrived and began playing catch. The father would lightly toss the ball into[…]
After the Pilgrims’ first harvest in the New World 395 years ago, they celebrated with a three-day feast of prayer and thanksgiving. The Pilgrims shared the bounty of a successful growing season with the Native Americans and gave thanks for their abundant harvest and good health. Over the years, traditions have changed and evolved, but the underlying[…]
Cinderella is a well-known story, with one of the most popular versions told by the Brothers Grimm in the folk tale collection, Grimms’ Fairy Tales. In the story, Cinderella loses her shoe at a ball when she runs away from the Prince. The next day, the Prince searches the kingdom to find the maiden who[…]
Happy Halloween! Halloween can be fun and scary. I had the best time going to a haunted house a few years ago called “The Trail of Terror and the Depot of Death.” The haunted adventure consisted of two parts: The Trail of Terror through a dark wooded area, and The Depot of Death through an[…]
Going to the doctor is just one of those things you have to do to stay healthy. Most of us dread this annual visit, and while a commentary on what’s wrong with our health care system is outside the purpose of this blog, I am going to use it as a case study to[…]