Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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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…
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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.…