Each morning before looking at email, calendars, or to-do lists, give yourself some quiet time to consciously create your day.  Decide how you would like for your day to go.  Decide how you would like to feel throughout the day, and what qualities you intend to bring to your day (a sense of humor, an [...]

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Today, a dear friend sent me this article.  (Thanks Susan!)  If this isn’t a shining sign of the times, I don’t know what is.

Sarkozy Wants Happiness Used as Economic Indicator
By EMMA VANDORE, AP Business Writer PARIS – France plans to include happiness and well-being in its measurements of economic progress, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said [...]

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Want to improve your business?  Listen.
Listen to yourself.  Really listen.  Slow down.  Get quiet (it may take a while for the inner chatter to subside).  There is so much inner guidance and wisdom available to each of us.  We have access to it whenever we listen for it.
You might want to pose questions about your [...]

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We’ve noticed that many women business owners have difficulty asking for help. (OK, actually many people in general have trouble with this!)  Operating inside a double standard, we might be very comfortable offering and giving help, but not so comfortable asking for help.  Viewing it as either an imposition or a sign [...]

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I don’t know of anyone who consciously planned on the current state of our economy.  Yet here we are, each of us dealing with it in various degrees.  Chances are, no matter what your plans were for your business or your career, the current situation has given you pause.  Here’s the good news: that pause [...]

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Each year we ask our GROWE members and our coaching clients to choose a theme.  We do the same for ourselves.  The theme provides a focal point for growth and success during the year.  Sometimes the theme represents a quality that we want to develop in ourselves, sometimes it represents some aspect of life/business we [...]

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In the last several weeks, I have heard myself saying this to my coaching clients:  “Don’t give your power away to The Economy.”  Of course I’m not advocating sticking our heads in the sand, pretending that there aren’t  serious issues that need to be resolved.  I am advocating that we bolster our genuine optimism, which [...]

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There are so many insights around the table at a GROWE meeting.  During one meeting, an entrepreneur had an epiphany that changed the way she did business.  Her business had plateaued and she knew she needed to bring more focus to her work.  The group had asked her to take a hard look at her [...]

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Check out the link below for a good presentation on maintaining focus.  I especially liked slides #’s 15-33.  These are very short entertaining slides, so don’t let the number discourage you.  Bottom line:  the author identifies 5 patterns of behavior that really help in maintaining focus.  They are:
1.  Identify Leaks (in your ability to focus)
2. [...]

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From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to [...]

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