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The Vacation Test: Building a Million-Dollar Business That Can Run Without You
Picture this: You're lounging on a beach, phone tucked away in your hotel room, completely disconnected from your business for two full weeks. Does the thought make you break into a cold sweat? If so, you're not alone – and more importantly, this might be the wake-up call your business needs. I call it "The Vacation Test," and it's one of the most revealing indicators of whether you've built a truly valuable business asset or created a job for yourself. But here's the thing: building a sellab...
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February 7, 2025

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5 Tips to Boost Your Creativity and Capture the Next Big Business Idea
Creativity is an indispensable ingredient not only for artbut also for any successful business. It’s the mother of innovation, thecornerstone of your R&D. That’s why, whether you’re a solopreneur or abusiness leader with employees, nurturing creativity in yourself and your teamis an excellent strategy for staying competitive on the market. In reality, finding new ways to market your business,interact with customers, or improve your products & services will nothappen without someone coming up wi...
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August 19, 2024
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How to Project Confidence Without Alienating Your Audience
My inspiration for today’s topic came last week. I was part of an audience subjected to a quite interesting public speaking style of a person trying to pitch a business collaboration idea. Before I tell you this story, first let me share a definitionof confidence by Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.” Franklin D. Roosevelt The Story I volunteer o...
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August 19, 2024
Self Development
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Halloween for Entrepreneurs. How to Trick Fears in Business in 7 Wicked Awesome Ways.
All my kids are telling me this week is what costumes theyare going to wear, how much candy they can get from 'trick or treating,' andhow fun it will be to get scared a little. Yes, you guessed it, Halloween iscoming. And with that, lots of us adults will watch scary movies anddress up ourselves to have fun with the kids. It's the day when we not onlycelebrate the loved ones that passed away but also face our fears about death. That's why I thought that's is probably one of the bestmoments to ...
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August 19, 2024
Self Development
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Niche or NO Niche? That Is the Question for Every Businessowner. This Read Will Help You Decide.
When you search the internet to ask a simple question on“how to find a niche in your business?”, there are articles on articles you canread and scroll through, and a lot of them even contradict each other. Someexperts tell you: you must have a niche to be successful, the others say no,you don’t as there are alternatives. So who to listen, what to do? First, just imagine trying to sell apples to someone whoreally wants oranges. It would be hard, right? That’s why you need to have clarity on who...
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August 19, 2024
Self Development
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Free Advice On How to Build a Healthy Business That Lasts
A few months ago, I wrote about why teams require vision, mission, and values to be cohesive and high-performing. And how as a team leader, you need to live and breathe them so that the team follows you. The same principlesapply when you are a solopreneur running or just starting your business. As a business owner, I’m sure that just like the rest of us, you’d like your business to last and be healthy. Your dream lifestyle and family well being depend on it. To achieve that, your business nee...
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August 19, 2024
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Need More Time? Learn How To Say "NO" (And Improve Your Business)
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. ~ Warren Buffet A lot of people have a hard time saying "No." They say "Yes" to favors, asks for help, additional services, etc. even though everything inside them then screams "no – don't agree to that!" No wonder they end up having hard time managing their time. Have you ever been in this situation? Saying "yes" to something you really wanted to say "no" to? Why...
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August 19, 2024
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Anatomy of Change Series 1/3: Why Do We fear Something Unavoidable?
Google says that we live on the planet that has beenevolving over 4.543 billion years. From slow evolutionary changes, through faster seasonal, toeven faster human-driven ones (industrial, technology, medicine & othersciences, or social movements); change is all around us. "Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." — John F. Kennedy And yet as individuals, most of us have a hard time adoptingchange. At work, in personal life, sel...
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August 19, 2024
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5 Steps on How to be More Visible and Attractive to Your Ideal Client.
There are manydefinitions of marketing, but if you strip them down to the essential, it’squite simple. Marketing is making your business visible and known to yourpotential clients as well as attracting them to buy your products and services.As you can see, two keywords stand out in this definition: visibility andattraction. In other words, they are the substance of what marketing is andaccomplishes. And since marketing is one of the three most significant challenges of every entrepreneur (right...
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August 19, 2024
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How Small Acts of Kindness Can Have a Huge Impact on Your Business
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop I love the Holiday Season. Not only because of childhoodmemories and tradition of family gatherings but also because we all slow downduring this time. We become much more thoughtful, compassionate, and kind toeach other. Kindness makes the world a better place. And it happens throughsmall acts of it done many times by many people. There are many ways how small acts of kindne...
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August 19, 2024
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New Year, New Decade, New Opportunities. 5 Things You Don’t Want to Take into 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I was reading an article, and throughit, it dawned on me that 2020 is not just the new year like most others. Thisone opens a brand-new decade of opportunities! So, if you haven’t started planning your goals for 2020 just yet and thinking of it, I want to encourage you to do that by looking back at 2019 first. First, take time to reflect on what worked great this year soyou can repeat and do more of in the new year. Then look at what didn't. And as my contribution to you...
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August 19, 2024
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Don’t know how else you can grow your business? Start with personal development.
As we've entered the last month of 2019, I hope that you're already planning on how to grow your business in 2020. Without growth, no business can prosper in today's marketplace. And what can hinder such growth? The answer is you. If you don't grow, your business cannot either. You are its leader, leading creator, and propeller. If you stagnate, your business will too. That's why the most successful entrepreneurs are obsessed with personal development. If you're not yet, you should join the com...
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August 19, 2024
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How to Deal with Shiny Object Syndrome and Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Business Results
Being an entrepreneur requires two primary skills that, if you develop, nothing can stop you. One is grit, i.e., being able to treat challenges as a regular part of the journey, learn from the failures, and keep going. The second one is staying focused on your goals. We live in a world where distractions are always allaround us: e-mails, chats, messages, social media. Those who can tune them outand focus are the ones who succeed. The challenge here is that it's tough to do that. You have proba...
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August 19, 2024

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