Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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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…
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Quotable Coach: Entrepreneurs Have Freedom Of Time
As an entrepreneur, you’re able to enjoy freedom that few people who are “captive” to a job ever will. This freedom goes in two opposite directions: “Freedom from” and “freedom to.” The “freedom from” allows you to give up more and more of what you don’t like doing and don’t do well. This gives you…
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Recognize – And Overcome – These 10 Common Obstacles To Teamwork
Most entrepreneurs like the idea of accomplishing more by teaming up with others. So what stops them? The biggest obstacles are mental ones—ways of thinking that keep you from experiencing great teamwork. But since they happen in your mind, you can transform them in an instant. See if you recognize the following teamwork obstacles in…
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Tip Of The Week: What To Do With Doubtful Thoughts
Our minds tend to act like sports commentators—except that we, the players, can hear them and get derailed by what they say. In a business context, people are justifiably wary of anything that sounds too “woo-woo” or touchy-feely, but there’s no denying that the quality of your thoughts determines what you can and cannot do…
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Quotable Coach: The Market Wants Simplifiers
Life in the 21st century is complicated. The great freedom of our age is “disintermediation” – not having large institutions standing between us and the world anymore – but this also makes the world a more confusing place. If you can bring simplicity to some aspect of others’ lives, you’ll win their gratitude and loyalty.…
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Three Tips For Dealing With Messes
As the head of an entrepreneurial organization, you attract lots of attention. Many people need your input, your direction, and your time, which might make you feel like you’re being pulled in several directions at once, keeping you from getting focused. You might also find that keeping on top of the endless stream of paper,…
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Tip Of The Week: Simplify To Multiply
When we ask entrepreneurs to imagine growing their business 10 times, they often go to one of two places: Their eyes widen with wonder — “Wow, that would be great!” — or they widen with fear, because they’re imagining all the complications and demands of their current business becoming 10x worse. Actually, if you want…
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Quotable Coach: Who Are You Trying To Be?
All of us show up with a full set of talents and inclinations. You could spent lots of time fighting your nature, or trying to become a great generalist – or you could spend that time becoming a genius. Genius, really? Yes, it’s a grandiose word, but everybody has the capacity to become a genius…