Are you really going to accomplish the next thing you decide to do?
Now, I don’t know what your “next thing” — your next goal — might be. It could be a business goal, or a family objective. It may be connected with inner growth, or with your physical health.
But whatever it is, whatever you promise [...]

“The Best Advice I Ever Got.” I don’t usually pay much attention to the financial magazines, but the headline on this one was too good to pass up, so I bought the May 12 issue of Fortune, and I’m glad I did.
This article presents quotes from 19 high achievers, or as Fortune calls them, “accomplished [...]

Wendy Piersall is the owner of Sparkplugging.com, a blog that literally outgrew its first name.
A couple of years back, Wendy began a new blog, mainly as a hobby, but within three months her new “hobby” was so successful that she knew two things. First, this was turning into a profit pulling business. Second, she would [...]

You know, business doesn’t have to be a complex, Harvard-B-school kind of thing, all complicated and hard for ordinary mortals to understand.
It CAN be boiled down to some pretty simple stuff.
My paternal grandfather didn’t have a degree in business. In fact, he never got past the fourth grade, but that didn’t stop him from running [...]

Time management… it’s one of the most widely taught techniques in business. There are a bazillion books on the subject — I once owned at least a dozen of them, but never had enough real interest to read any of them all the way through. (So I gave ‘em away during my last move.)
In today’s [...]

It was a simple question on a business forum run by a large U.S. bank:
I am planning an ecommerce website to retail paintball products. I’m looking for a name, but the one I came up with is already registered. So I’m stuck, which puts me back at the start. I want a memorable [...]

Are you a fast typist? Here’s a chance to test your skills. Go to Typing Speed Test and see where you rank.
On my first run, I scored 53 words per minute, starting cold without a warmup. That’s not nearly as fast as I used to type — back when my business here in Japan [...]

If your profession is healing, you not only need clients who NEED your services, they must also WANT your services. People will spend a little money on things they need, but they’ll spend fortunes on what they want.So finding that particular combination means you’ll stay busy, stay profitable and stay fulfilled in your chosen work.
Fortunately, [...]

We all make mistakes — as parents, as partners, as human beings. And although mistakes always cost us something, it can be hard to quantify some of those costs.
In business, however, we CAN measure how much we’re losing to our blunders, oversights and miscalculations.
If you’re already in business the following article by Business Launch Expert [...]

If you’re in one of the healing disciplines, you are one of my heroes. You devote your time and energies to helping others have better emotional or physical health, and to have a better life all around.
Unfortunately, however, if you’re a healer of any kind, you may be struggling to make a decent living. Sadly, [...]

Here’s an important FREE resource that I’ve recommended before:
Hard to Find Seminars is a collection of more than 150 hours of interviews on marketing, selling and other skills you’ll absolutely need for success in business.
My recommendation — go explore this amazing site. It’s the work of Michael Senoff, who started recording and posting all his [...]

Marcia Yudkin, in her widely read ezine “The Marketing Minute,” tells how only a few people taking screenwriter training ever do anything with their new skills.
When L.A. filmmaker Jeff Bollow moved to Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago, he planned to launch an independent feature film studio but couldn’t find enough commercially suitable screenplays. [...]

Do you gossip? You know — talking about others behind their back? The chances are, even if you do gossip, you may not realize it.
This negative practice causes untold harm to others — but even worse is the damage it does to oneself through the deadening of compassion and empathy for others.
Today, guest columnist Peter [...]

Sometimes our conversations just don’t go the way we want them to go.
We all have people, whether at home or in business, who are easy to talk with… but then there are also the other kind.
Let’s face it, we don’t need any help with the easy ones. But when it comes to the hard ones, [...]

Drive down any street in your city, or thumb through the Yellow Pages, and notice all the different kinds of businesses you see.
For every single one of them, someone is failing at it, while someone else is succeeding. And someone is even becoming very wealthy. This is true whether it’s selling used cars cleaning [...]

Tom “Bald Dog” Varjan calls himself an Organisational Provocateur.
You or I would call him a consultant - he’s the guy who walks into companies, at their invitation, and stirs things massively till they get better.
Tom is exceptionally good at stirring. He’s called in when others are finding results hard to come by. He’s a hard-ass [...]

We’ve all noticed how, when it comes to goals and achievement, a small percentage of people make things happen. Everybody else only makes excuses.
That’s not criticism exactly - it’s more like an observation of what we see happening every day, all around us. It’s a seeming inability of most people to just go out and [...]

John was the lousiest businessman I’d ever seen.
But he didn’t let his seeming lack of talent interfere with anything. He was always rolling in cash, and everything he touched succeeded.
When he bought an old fixer-upper apartment building, He first called a builder to rip out the insides and remodel everything. Then he immediately put ads [...]

Sometimes we get so tangled up in how the “experts” say to do things, we forget that we have very good minds of our own.
When Shoko Tamaki retired from teaching music in middle school, she was in her early fifties. That was a bit over three years ago.
Rapidly advancing arthritis was making it increasingly hard [...]

Many of my readers have Internet businesses, so I’m including this next item for them. If you have no interest in this topic, you may want to skip over this short item.
A friend of mine, Barry Peters, has written a report outlining a novel and creative way to snag domain names that include high-popularity key [...]