by agnes | Sep 20, 2013 | Finding Focus, In The News
The operative word in my title is “Can”. I just read a depressing article. The opening sentence: “Nearly one in five Canadian workers (17%) expect they will never be able to afford to retire fully, according to study released by global bank HSBC.” I just can’t...
by agnes | Sep 16, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
Have you ever been to a live event? 1000s of people gathered together, excitement everywhere. It might have been a sporting event, it might have been a grand opening or an unveiling, it might have been a national gathering of your MLM, maybe it was a rock concert. The...
by agnes | Sep 12, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
So you want to be a solopreneur. Or maybe you already are. You are the manager, creator, CFO, marketer, salesperson, blogger, designer, secretary, and delivery person of your business. Despite all the work, you report to no one and you like it that way. However, while...
by agnes | Aug 27, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business
I am in the midst of a business building course that I love. Not only does the course material start right at the beginning of the adventure but the coach is delightful, funny young woman who takes no prisoners! That might sound like an oxymoron but I love her. She is...
by agnes | Aug 24, 2013 | Finding Focus
This website has undergone a few modifications over the last year and a bit. In one of its incarnations I had a teamwork page featuring the following video: From the moment I first viewed this video, I loved it. Perhaps the rowers caught my attention. ...
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 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...