Making Business Friends – Good News For Introverts

“Networking.” As an introvert, that unwelcome word makes me picture standing around at a busy event trying to talk to people when I’d rather be home reading. Ugh. But we know for a fact that relationships mean everything – in life and in business.  Relationships can create emotional and material wealth, lift us, strengthen us,…

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A Guide To Being Your Own Boss (And Loving It)

Think of the best and worst boss you’ve ever had. What made them the best and the worst? I’ll give an example (and I’d love to hear yours):  Fresh on a high school pizza place job, I became acutely aware that I was holding up the line.  All the pizzas were finished differently – some were topped…

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Make Your Fear of Success Obsolete

Yesterday, I underlined the following lines in a book about war: “One cannot explain it.  A man is walking along without thought or heed; – suddenly he throws himself down on the ground and a storm of fragments flies harmlessly over him; – yet he cannot remember either to have heard the shell coming or to…

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Fear of Success: Do You Have One Of These 6 Symptoms?

I saw the bright yellow headline: “Are you afraid of success?” It irritated me so much that I slapped the magazine back onto the waiting room table. Who is afraid of success!?  I thought.  I’m sick of people inventing anxieties and then foisting them upon the rest of us!  Well.  (:: scuffs shoes ::) Funny thing that I’ve…

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