Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Use Your Ability To Transform
Two centuries ago, French economist Jean-Baptiste Say wrote that an entrepreneur is someone who “shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.” In other words, as an entrepreneur, you transform resources in a way that makes them more valuable than they were before. These…
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Tip Of The Week: Entrepreneurs Are Like Jack Russell Terriers
Picture a Jack Russell terrier trapped in a house all day on its own — mischievous, smart, and bored. Something precious is going to end up broken, or with its stuffing splayed across the room. Entrepreneurs are the same — only much, much more powerful, with the funds, the imagination, and the influence to wreak a…
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Quotable Coach: The Only Thing You Can Really Sell To Someone
Endless amounts of time and money are spent by marketers, advertisers, and psychologists trying to figure out how to understand and influence human behavior. Perhaps we’ll never really know why people do what they do, but there’s one thing you can always bank on in every situation: People do things for their reasons, not your…
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Tip Of The Week: The People Worth Spending Time With
As much as we might enjoy our accomplishments, a huge part of our quality of life comes from our relationships. And one of the great side-effects of success is having the freedom to choose who you interact with day-to-day –clients and customers, suppliers, and team members. There’s a special quality to people who are part…
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Quotable Coach: What Are Your Problems Worth?
Maybe at the beginning of your career it was necessary to struggle away at problems because you just didn’t have the resources to spend on fixing them. At what point, though, do you stop? There’s a certain level of success where your time is measurably valuable – and when you weigh that against the problem…
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Your 10-Year Plan For Freedom
Why did you become an entrepreneur in the first place? There was a possibility, a dream, that drove you to take that leap. If your life today isn’t quite what you imagined — too busy? too much pressure? — pause for a moment and reconnect with that initial instinct. It can show you the next evolutionary step in your entrepreneurial career.…
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Tip Of The Week: The Magic Solution To The Parts Of Your Business You Don’t Like
Entrepreneurs, by definition, are self-starters. They can create things without a lot of outside support, guidance, or structures. No wonder hiring can be so difficult for many entrepreneurs: It means trusting other people, spending money on them, rather than reverting to the most natural instinct – simply doing it yourself. But flip this thought around…
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Quotable Coach: The Entrepreneur’s Secret To Making More Money
To the beginning entrepreneur, success may seem tied to personal sacrifice: “If I want to achieve more, I have to give more.” As your business grows, though, the opposite becomes true: You need to protect your time and attention, reserving it just for those decisions, relationships, and opportunities that need your particular skills and wisdom.…
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Entrepreneurial Freedom Comes from Going in the Right Direction
Why would anybody take on the risks and responsibilities of being an entrepreneur? Freedom! As an entrepreneur, you have the opportunity to experience incredible freedoms that not many get the chance to enjoy — if make them a conscious part of your life! Otherwise, you fall into the same restrictions as someone who’s stuck in…
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Tip Of The Week: Free Time Is A Precondition For Your Best Work
Removing yourself physically and mentally from your business is not a reward for achievement, it’s a precondition to you being useful and effective in your work. So if you’re truly committed to delivering great results for yourself, your clientele, and your team, you need to take time off regularly. We’re all prone to thinking we’re…