By now you have hopefully realized that this IS the best time to be in business. This IS the best time to expand your small business. This IS the best time to grow your success. So what's your status? In getting down to brass tacks - I'm all about change and one timeless truth you CAN count on is "success requires initiating change". CHANGE means inside the business. Inside means YOU, the team, the practices, the culture. Inside means the plan, the intelligence, the guts of your operations. …

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates said that at his trial for heresy. He was on trial for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time and think for themselves. The sentence was death but Socrates had the option of suggesting an alternative punishment. He could have chosen life in prison or exile, and would likely have avoided death. But Socrates believed that these alternatives would rob him of the only thing that made life useful: Examining the …

Being in business is a way of life. It's not for everyone and unfortunately the typical way one learns this is through the loss and failure of their start-up. The five terms above represent a new way of life and a new way of thinking. The entreprenuerial age is hallmarked by these terms - the new language of success. To succeed in business requires thinking like a business owner, an entreprenuer. The secret to this begins with changing the way you think. Networking is effective not to get business but …

Doing it means delivering the goods. Being the technician. Making the products. Selling and delivering the services. The part of the business that keeps you whirling like the dervish because without the doing -there is no business. This is what all owners are - the doers. Most businesses are launched and started by the creator, the technician. In retail this is the producer, the sales person. In the arts, it's the musician, the artist, the author. In fitness, the trainer. In hospitality, the chef. In …

A universal plague that isn't your fault. The good news is there is a cure here now. First of all - does this even describe you? And if so - are you hurting enough to admit it and make a change? Your business in 2012 is counting on it. There's a deep latent conditioning which started during the post-depression about your value: Get a good education, save your money, buy a house, pay off everything asap, live for the pension, retire - this has been the definition of success. A slave to the time-clock, the …

 It takes courage to change, that's nothing new. It's simply PRIDE that holds most of us up and like addiction, it builds while we slumber, over many years of stealth construction. How do you know you need to change or that you're the problem and that the same mind that led you here cannot lead you out of here? Solving any problem starts with knowing how you got there. In other words, if you want things to change in your business, change the mind that's running it, or become another statistic. An …

A Few Good Clients "The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing." -Michael Gerber   Almost at capacity and accepting a few new clients this month. Whether you're launching or expanding, consult with an expert for your future success. 2012 will …

The failure of business is legion What does it take to succeed in your business and how can you make it happen in 2012? In other words, no one has to start out or expand, and fail. And as the leader, it's your job to realize your dream.   So how can you really make this work? What does an entrepreneur do for this quest?   How? What? How? How? What? How?   First of all make up your mind that you're going to do it. That means a declaration of commitment! What you'll soon begin to see …

In reviewing your year, what didn't work so well? Let this time be rich with review, and give the best gift to your business by considering an intelligent blueprint—a new way of thinking. Ask yourself - what have been the biggest frustrations? Your answer is your starting point. It leads into the solution. The solution recommends thinking differently by implementing a system, not only to minimize the frustrations - but to resolve them. It's time to transform your frustrations into solutions which …

After a succession of profound stress in my life, it was my holistic personal trainer—who's truly one of a kind—who guided me to go within day by day for weeks. The aim was to heal my over-compensated foundation. So along with lab work and collaborative care, he guided me not to exert my nervous system. Not to overstimulate my adrenals. Not to upset my mind. Not to work out, but to "work in." This required changing my nightly habits, my eating, my activity and so forth. The result …