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Entrepreneur Survival Strategies: Boundary Setting Published on 24/05/2008

It happened again! The boss asked you to stay late and prepare a last-minute presentation, when you had planned to go home and work on your business. You feel sick to your stomach, resentful, and despair about your ability to make your business work. Or how about this one: You are working at your business, and you are in the flow and feel very productive. But people keep interrupting...

Overwhelmed by Starting a Business? Utilize Your Strengths Published on 03/03/2008

Making the shift from employee to entrepreneur can be a daunting task. The changes necessary to master entrepreneurial skill sets, habits, and paradigms can be overwhelming. "Do I have what it takes to become an entrepreneur?" you ask yourself for the tenth, twentieth, or even fiftieth time. Setbacks and frustrations come with the territory, and eventually many budding entrepreneurs believe...

Want to Start a Business? Change Your Mindset Published on 03/03/2008

Most of our lives we have been convinced that the way to financial security is the common path of education and subsequent employment. Get a solid career, a steady job with a good company, and it will all pan out. You'll get the money you need to stay out of debt, support a family, buy a house, and get that retirement you deserve. Right? Not anymore. That model of financial success no longer...

Strategies for Mastering Discouragement Published on 01/03/2008

You know the feeling. You try and try something and it just doesn't work. You were expecting something to happen and it didn't. You want to change something about your life and there you are, right back in the old habits you want to quit. That feeling washes over you with a sickening heat. It tightens the throat, constricts the breathing, and settles in the belly. What can you do to...