Oct

29

I can’t resist commenting on this bankrate.com article titled Why Women Fall Behind in Retirement, by Sheyna Steiner. I was pretty impressed with it. It didn’t give simple answers. The reality is that we are behind in our retirement savings for complex reasons—a huge one being that we don’t make …

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Oct

22

Remember that underearning is the pattern of earning below your potential. In order to avoid it, you must charge appropriately for your time and you must protect your time. If you are in a service based business, you must make sure your time stays filled with clients. It doesn’t matter if you always charge your …

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Oct

15

When my local barista (someone who makes coffee- I’m in Seattle!) greets me with, “Hey, haven’t seen you in a while. How are you surviving this economic crisis?!” You know everyone is worried.

Let me share a few things that will help you.

First, stay out of the money fog. This is the worst time to be …

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Oct

8

One of the most important aspects of achieving success in self-employment is learning to fail fast. Not failing doesn’t seem to be an option. Now I don’t mean “failing” in the oh-my-god-I-have-to-go-back-to-the-cubicle way. No. I mean all those small “failures”—our new niches that don’t work out; our new products that don’t sell; our seminars that …

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Oct

1

Melody Ivory asked me a great question when she interviewed me recently (listen to the first audio with Melody- 12:58 minutes)—what is the most difficult part of being an agent of change? Said another way, what is the most difficult part of being successful? The …

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