Business Development

On Manifestos and Market Research

A friend of mine, who recently started a business told me she was working on a business manifesto. I love the idea of declaring your policies and intentions, so I got really excited. I told her I wrote a manifesto …

How to Successfully Practice Acceptance and Participation in Business

Acceptance? What exactly does acceptance mean anyway? Accepting situations as they are without judgement is a good and healthy practice, but how is that possible in the business world? And what about participation? Is participation and brand loyalty a leveraging …

3 Goal Setting Tips that Will Make You Want to Run Out and Smash Some Short Term Goals

Goal setting is such a Generation X thing to do. Ready for the usual goal setting tips? Here they are: set goals—long term, short term, medium term. Set goals for overachieving. Do it! Right now! And make sure it’s as …

Instead of the Perfect Plan, Build a Successful Business Structure Or What Sailing Taught Me About Business Planning

I love the old adage, “life is what happens while you’re busy planning.” We live in a culture full of planning addicts. We love to think that we can control everything and everyone around us, so we try really hard …

Start Something New! 6 Best Practices For Breaking Down and Building Up

Are you ready to start something new? The scary thing about starting something new is that it usually means getting rid of something old. It also means getting out of your comfort zone and into a tight and potentially unpleasant …

Top 10 Ways to Celebrate Business Success: Think of the Celebration As Part of Your Goal.

So it’s my birthday month. And I call it my birthday month because I get to celebrate it all month, since my birthday is at the end of the month. I figure if I can do this for lil’ old …

Scared? Cling to the Facts Like They’re Your Knight in Shining Armor.

I’m going to discuss something that scares me about my business. (By the way, I am tempted to start out each and every one of my blog posts like this. For the most part, though, I avoid indulging this impulse …

Stand In Your Value Or Bad Asses Don’t Work for Free

Since you read this blog, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you’re awesome. That means a few things: (1) you would never think of sh*tting where you eat; (2) you would never think of doing …

What These 3 Big Thoughts Taught Me About Business

As the end of summer approaches, I’ve been turning over in my mind three big thoughts (you know, along with the usual minutiae):

• Finding stillness within movement.
• The difference between being busy and being productive.
• How we measure success. How

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