Does your company make pillows? You’re a manufacturer. That’s obvious. Does your company clean rooms? You’re also a manufacturer. That is not so obvious. But you in fact are. Every company makes something. The pillow guy makes a physical thing that gives the consumer an experience of comfort. The cleaning guy provides a service, that [...]
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If you think something will take an hour, it will take a day. If you think something will take a day, it will take a week. And if you think something will take a week, it will take a month, or possibly a year. The winners stick with it. They over estimate their own abilities. [...]
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Systematizing your business is the key to unlimited success and growth. I know you know that. But many people struggle with the “where to get started” part. Do you need to systematize everything first and then cut the business over? Or do you simply automate the stuff you are doing already? The answer is no [...]
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Before we get started here, I want to make sure we agree on something. Every hour of our life is an hour closer to our death. In other words each hour we spend, regardless of how we spend it, is a life unit. Okay? Okay. So here is my question for you: How many life [...]
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It happens to us all. We are working away, and then that email chime goes off. Two hours later we finally realize that we drifted off from the work we needed to do. I reached out to the entrepreneurial community to learn how they refocus on work after a distraction sets in. Here is what [...]
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7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business Leaders innovate. Followers follow. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was quoted as once saying, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” And he should know, right? But it’s true! As an aspiring entrepreneur, you’ll have business ideas that come and go, probably on a daily basis. [...]
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You’ve been there – in the midst of a vigorous shampooing ritual and mid-foam-up, you suddenly have a light bulb moment that effectively solves the problem you and your team puzzled over just the day before. No, it’s not the magic of warm water. Nor is it an enchanted formula the Irish Spring folks are [...]
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Eight Bad Sleep Habits That Are Killing Your Success Sleep. Sweet sleep. When your day is crammed to the max, the only place most of us can carve out more time for work is by getting less sleep. After all, burning the candle at both ends does provide more light, right? True. But it also [...]
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You know the saying: “The early bird gets the worm.” Now, I don’t know if you are in the worm business, or if you are even a bird for that matter. But, if you are an entrepreneur, the early time of the morning is when you can get a lot of work done. Here are [...]
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44 Ways To Reinvigorate Your Entrepreneurial Drive Here’s your pseudo-science lesson for the day. The entire universe, including business here on earth, is controlled by a dark force scientists call entropy—a tendency for every ordered and organized system to turn into total chaos, and for the poop to hit the fan when we’re not looking. [...]
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Systematizing your business means freedom. Not just one type of freedom, but many. You are freed from doing the work. And systems even give you the choice to simply watch the business run or improve how it runs. You are freed from the limits of your time. And since systems (done right) don’t need you, [...]
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If Only It hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. A prospect for my business growth consulting group decided to go with a competitor. Egads! I mean how could they pick someone else? This is when I started analyzing the situation, and came up with all the possible ways I could have prevented this. [...]
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How To Ask For Help, In Seven Steps Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones said it best, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” Mick’s still right about that. At one point or another, we all need some form of help, usually from our friends, but not always. Friend or not, very [...]
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Recruit Talent Fast What if you could prescreen interviewees for your company when it was convenient for you, like when you’re sitting on the couch during commercial breaks or in the 30-minutes over coffee before you start your day? If you don’t have a human resources person who does nothing but screen applicants for your [...]
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Touchdowns From Business Huddles Not Meetings I’ve never seen anyone drag a table, chairs and a white board onto the football field or basketball court. Have you? Every successful (and not-so-successful) sports team on the field starts the game with a huddle. It’s all they need. And whether they’re 3-and-goal or getting their butts kicked [...]
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We all want to do more by working less. We want to do more, do it faster and spend less time doing it. After all there are only 24 hours in a day and nothing short of a tear in the space and time continuum is going to change that. Let’s just fess up. We all want [...]
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A while back I shared some of my favorite productivity tools for the computer, and our Entrepreneurs Enclave (it’s a invite only Facebook group) offered up a ton of your faves with me in the comments. (Thanks for that!) But I saved the most important and optimal productivity tool for this post because it’s so important, it deserves [...]
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When You Aren’t Feelin’ It Need to work harder, but your not feelin’ it? Would you rather surf some (almost) porn pictures? Want to, once and for all, motivate yourself to work harder? Well, just read through this quick post and you will discover the one most powerful tool to motivating yourself. No outside help necessary! [...]
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Meeting George In Heaven When I die, I hope heaven allows me to meet people from the past. Another part of me hopes I will be admitted to heaven. Who would I meet? Family first. No question. I am curious where a bunch of cuckoos like us came from anyway. Then I would meet people [...]
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Anyone who knows me will tell you I am a maniac about productivity. I don’t have a single game on my iPhone or computer (except what comes pre-installed or my youngest son tries to install when he is playing around on my iPhone). But, I do have some very cherry productivity tools. Some might call [...]
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