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December 4, 2019

Habits to Manage Stress

The end of the year is a stressful time for business owners and many others. In the northern hemisphere, the end of the year is a time of cold and darkness, combined with the pressures of the “holiday season”; a time widely held to be stressful. In the southern hemisphere […]
December 4, 2019

Does Your Business Depend on Black Friday?

Where I live, now, here in Ecuador, Thanksgiving is not a holiday.  There are businesses: restaurants, bakers, caterers who, with an eye to opportunity, offer Thanksgiving services: prepared turkeys, and pumpkin pies for the expat community but the traditional north American family meal, the disputed American myths, the day set […]
November 11, 2019

Know Your Life Purpose (Lite) Video

According to this 2013 Malibu TED Talk, Adam Leipzig, an American film and theatre producer, found at his 25th class reunion from Yale, that 80% of his privileged classmates were unhappy with their lives. Putting aside my skepticism at a Hollywood producer soliciting such brutal and humble honesty from so […]
November 11, 2019

Planning for Year End 2019

It’s that time again.  The year, in fact the entire decade, is soon coming to an end.  As a business owner it’s time to get started on your year-end checklist. If you’ve been building your business as recommended in my book Vision to Decision:  A Self-Coaching Guide to Starting a […]