by agnes | Aug 23, 2013 | Getting Down To Business
You have finally admitted it would be fun to have your own business. Going on-line makes a ton of sense. You have a few ideas floating around about what your direction will be. What are you going to name your web-site? There are several places you can go to purchase a...
by agnes | Aug 22, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business
“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” ― Napoleon Hill How often in your life have you waited to do...
by agnes | Aug 21, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
This post is a more personal follow-up to yesterday’s post about Fear. In my world I am pretty average. My life experiences, my travels, my relationships, my jobs, my endeavours are all in the same ball parks as all of my friends. Some have done more, some have...
by agnes | Aug 19, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
Sometime ago I book-marked an article that I thought was worth keeping. The title: How To Conquer Fear by Geoffrey James. Opening paragraph: “Fear is the enemy of success. Large rewards only result from taking comparably large risks. If...
by agnes | Aug 19, 2013 | Finding Focus, On A Personal Note...
If you read any of the major motivational authors, the one common thread you will read is how you have to keep pushing, keep moving forward toward your goal no matter how tired you are, how convinced you are that you might as well give up. The authors can usually give...
by agnes | Aug 18, 2013 | Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
I had a discussion some time ago with my DMC team-mates about the failure rate of women in business. One of my favourite phrases is “You don’t know what you don’t know”. It comes into play here, and everywhere statistics are spouted. Six years...
by agnes | Aug 17, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business
Are you fat? Is your hair thin and limp? Do you get travel sick every time you go anywhere? Do you look old? Do you have saddle bags on your thighs? Do you turn bright red whenever you have to say something in a public place? Do you have triflaps? (you know, the bags...
by agnes | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog, Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
I have worked in ElderCare for over 20 years. It has always been about the people and I have appreciated it for that reason. By ElderCare I mean the frail, the bed-bound, the demented, the dying. A common theme I hear from families when they start enquiring about...
by agnes | Aug 15, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
Last year I had reason to talk with my financial advisor outside our usual check-in. I wanted to cash in part of an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) – it was doing nothing and I wanted to take a risk on something for my kids. She was not sure I was doing the...
by agnes | Aug 14, 2013 | Blog, Getting Down To Business
Every business in this on-line space is unique if only because of the unique personality of its developer/owner. In order to be successful in your business, you need to take your personality traits into consideration. Interestingly, it was in watching my dogs at the...
