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20 Mistakes to Avoid in Running Your Own Online Business

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Experience – that most brutal of teachers, but you learn, my god! do you learn! ~ C.S. Lewis

They say we learn best from our own mistakes, and there is some truth to that, yes, but if you could save time and effort and a few tears and avoid certain mistakes, would you not want to do it, especially if I promise that you could still make plenty of other mistakes on your own? [Read more…] about 20 Mistakes to Avoid in Running Your Own Online Business

To Quit or Not to Quit Your Cushy Job

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I haven’t read Quitter by Jon Acuff and after my client mentioned it to me by sharing a passage from the book, I am pretty glad I did not see it when I was on the verge of leaving my corporate hell in May of 2011. Without reading the book, it is not fair to pass judgment but from that single passage, I’m pretty sure I won’t be reading so best not to talk so much about Quitter as to talk about what I think you should do when it comes to quitting or not quitting your cushy job. [Read more…] about To Quit or Not to Quit Your Cushy Job

How to Stop Wasting Your Life In a Dead-End Job

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You know what I wish for?

I wish someone had tapped me on the shoulder during those miserable years at my corporate job, (now in reflection: a dead-end job) not to ask me to go to lunch – no, thank you, do we have to obsess so much about lunch?? – but to ask what on earth I am doing in this dead-end, deranged, disgusting place, when I can do so much more with my life and my brilliant talents and skills. [Read more…] about How to Stop Wasting Your Life In a Dead-End Job

19 Disciplines of Working and Running Your Business from The Road

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Self-discipline can seriously surprise you when you put it to the test. You may believe you have a really good grasp on it because, well, you stick to your routine and schedule and produce remarkable results on a day-to-day basis, but how robust a discipline is it if that only happens in the controlled environment that you have created?

You may have the utmost self-discipline and devotion to your projects and pursuits at home and within a comfort zone but will you maintain it if you leave that space and travel for a while? [Read more…] about 19 Disciplines of Working and Running Your Business from The Road