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5 Reasons Why You Don’t Reach Your Goals (Part 2)
[5 Reasons Why You Don't Reach Your Goals - Part 2] After years of helping leaders and small business owners be more productive and profitable, and after seeing the same challenges tripping them up, I've put together the top 5 reasons why business owners don't reach...
5 Reasons Why You Don’t Reach Your Goals
[5 Reasons Why You Don't Reach Your Goals - Part 1] Every quarter is a fresh start with new goals. You have good intentions to be more organised and smash your goals until… an angry customer calls because she didn’t receive her order a project is running late a key...
7 Small Business Planning Questions for 2021
SMALL BUSINESS PLANNING FOR 2021 One year later when she reviewed the planning document they produced, she was shocked to learn that the numbers were disappointing and several goals haven't been reached. In their book, The Balanced Scorecard, authors David Norton...
5 Steps To Improve Your Quoting Process
If your business is constantly hitting bottlenecks or dead ends when it comes to quoting, it’s time to look at your processes as it will save you daily frustration and hours of wasted time. In previous posts we spoke about the difference between systems and processes...
Bad Business Habits (Part 2) Procrastination
We went into business to be our own boss, earn more money and have the lifestyle we only dreamed about while working for someone else. However, most business owners I speak to complain about: working longer hours than they ever imagined always having a fire to fight...
How Productive Are You At Work?
Are you really as busy as you think you are?
We’re notoriously bad at estimating time. We tend to underestimate how long something will take to do and overestimate how much time we have to do it. A deadly mistake.
“Most humans can’t estimate their time accurately. This is why enjoyable events seem short and
the boring ones seem to last forever.” ~ TOGGL.COM
The livelihood of your business depends on you being able to estimate how much time you and your team spend on work tasks. This is true whether you run your own business or work in corporate.
3 Easy Steps To Plan Your Business Goals
Most small business owners complain about: working longer hours than they ever imagined not being able to consistently reach their goals, and constantly worrying where the next money and clients will come from. This slowly kills the passion they have for their...
3 Ways To Be More Confident
What would you try or change in your life right now if you felt more confident?. If you believed more in yourself and in your business, would you: increase your prices or be more selective about the clients you work with? speak at a networking event, make a video or...