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 | Sep 9, 2013 | Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
Well, one of them. But for more reasons than one. Now some of you, I know, are asking Who the bleep is Charley Boorman? I first met Charley through one of the sexiest guys on the planet: Ewan McGregor – star of Moulin Rouge and Big Fish. And Yes, I am using the word...
by agnes | Aug 29, 2013 | Getting Down To Business, It's The Life In Your Years, On A Personal Note...
Mary Jane West from Brooklyn, New York. I think it was her frisky irreverence that triggered my affection for Mae West – she was spunky at a time when spunky women raised eyebrows and challenged the morals of the day. She was, however, an advocate for...
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 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...
