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- Plan your Performance Review Before you Start the Job - by When you start a new job, you probably realize the first three months are critical to your long-term success. Everybody's eye is on the "newbie" as you learn the ropes. "Does anybody want to go to lunch?" is the wrong thing to say in a run-during-lunch or never-leave-the-desk culture.
You may ...
Views: 552 - Should you give up or keep going? - by Many of us are influenced by the sports ethic: Never give up! When a basketball team is down by 20 with 30 seconds on the clock, the players never stop working. The spectators might be filing out, and the winning team might bring in the bench players, but the game goes on.
If your game is a ...
Views: 767 - Asking Santa (or anyone else) for Career Guidance - by Lynn Grabhorn's book, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, encourages readers to imagine themselves making outrageous requests of their own personal version of Santa Claus. But we've all heard the warning: "Be careful what you wish for…" Once I hired a "mentor" coach to help me generate business. I ...
Views: 742 - Midlife Career Change: It's about identity - by I hear from many people who feel trapped in a career after fifteen or twenty happy, productive years. It's been a good ride, they say, but now it's time to jump off the train. They want to fulfill a creative dream, recover from burnout or just try something new. The old challenge is now a "been ...
Views: 871 - To Gain Freedom, You Need a Safety Net - by When I talk to people about moving to career freedom and becoming a free spirit, I sometimes get the question: "Does this mean I should give up my job and move to Montana?" Or people ask: "Should I quit my job to start a business?"
Imagine that you decide to walk across a room on a high wire. ...
Views: 525 - Using Tarot Cards for Career Intuition - by As a career coach, I meet people who feel they are standing at a fork in the road, seeking guidance on whether to turn right or left. Accept this job offer? Resign from a frustrating job? Return to school?
"I know the answer is within me," they say, "but how do I gain access to my inner ...
Views: 928 - Tell Your Boss Goodbye! Top 10 Tips for Turning Your Passion Into Profit - by TELL YOUR BOSS GOODBYE! TOP TEN TIPS FOR TURNING YOUR PASSION INTO PROFIT By Walt Goodridge (as experienced in his national workshops)
Tired of working for someone else? Looking to find a business idea that really excites you? Or are you already in business but find it's beginning to feel just ...
Views: 774 - Entrepreneurophobia: Conquering The Fear - by ENTREPRENEUROPHOBIA: Conquering the Fear!
NOTE: This version of Entrepreneurophobia has been updated and revised exclusively for life beyond the year 2000, and exclusively for readers of Turn Your Passion Into Profit.
Naming the fear:
Being an entrepreneur has the glamour of being in charge, ...
Views: 892 - Are You Stuck In The Past? - by How often do you find yourself still dealing with things that you half-way finished? Not me, you say.
Ok, what about that big pile of magazines you ordered but never have time to read? Did you start a high protein diet, but now eat carbs and just feel guilty? (oh come on…you know who you are!) ...
Views: 853 - What is Meaningful Work? - by When you do what you love, it doesn’t feel like work. Yes, effort will be required. You may work very very hard. But since you love it, it gives you energy, instead of draining you.
Several years ago, I had a job that I wasn’t very happy with. Whenever someone would come into my office and say ...
Views: 931 - Top 10 Online Job Search Mistakes - by The Internet has made job searching easier and more complex at the same time. Currently, there are nearly 50,000 websites devoted to job searches and careers. You can now send your resume to thousands of potential employers with the touch of a button. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s a new world. ...
Views: 752 - Top 10 Online Job Search Mistakes - by The Internet has made job searching easier and more complex at the same time. Currently, there are nearly 50,000 websites devoted to job searches and careers. You can now send your resume to thousands of potential employers with the touch of a button. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s a new world. ...
Views: 497 - How to Discover Your Life's Purpose So You May Live the Life God Intended You to Live - by "Beep, beep, beep, beep…"
Cassandra slowing opened her eyes and removed the blankets off her head. “It's cold. I don't feel like getting up”, she thought as she stuck her arm out from under the blankets to hit the snooze button on the alarm clock.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep…"
“It could not ...
Views: 1283 - Mirror Mirror On the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All? - by This article is prompted by an experience I had during the week. I was working with a woman, approaching retirement but without the financial resources to retire, who was looking to make some changes in her life. She was focused and determined and she had a plan of action.
Then a well-meaning ...
Views: 891 - Imagine - by Imagine a world where everyone tells it like it is. Rather than as it isn't. Imagine a world where you could not get rich overnight but you could become wealthy over time. Imagine a world where your financial rewards were directly related to how hard you work. Imagine a world where ethical ...
Views: 755 - The Free Lunch (And Other Myths) - by I have a page at my website that contains a list of home business ideas (and links to detailed articles about some of them). On that page, I invite visitors who have an idea that isn't listed on that page to submit it to me for inclusion. Nine times out of ten, the "ideas" that are submitted are ...
Views: 865 - Working from Home ... For Yourself or Someone Else? - by Although many people badly want to work from home, not everyone wants to have to launch and run a fully-fledged business of their own in order to do so. For such people the desire to work from home is more about maximizing time to be with family, physical location, comfort and convenience than ...
Views: 910 - Eggs, Baskets and Multiple Streams of Income - by One of the legacies of 9/11 is that that large sections of the U.S. and world economy have taken a body blow.
Every day we hear of more and more companies who plan to lay off large numbers of workers (or have already) as they strive to reposition themselves to ride out what the doomsayers ...
Views: 1078 - Growing Your List - by So, you're ready to launch your own newsletter. You've heard that a newsletter (or ezine) is a great way to stay in touch with site visitors and to develop an opt-in list of your own to promote your products and services.
OK, so far so good. And you have your first issue ready to go. "Go ...
Views: 847 - Flipping The Switch - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
So, you work from home. Good for you! No boss looking over your shoulder, no wasting time commuting to and from the office, no-one setting your hours for you or telling you what to do. No one to care if you're wearing your rattiest clothes or don't take a shower before ...
Views: 677 - Running Your Own Race - by There was an article on the front page of the Los Angeles Times a while back that caught my eye. The headline was "Small Dot- Coms Thrive While Industry Giants Melt Down". Here are the opening paragraphs ...
"Beneath the chaotic dot-com busts of the last half-year, an overlooked breed of ...
Views: 784 - Give 'em What They Want - by People go online for many reasons. Some "surf", just to see what's out there, but most are much more specific in their objectives. They want to know about something and they turn to the Internet to find what they're looking for. At its most basic level, what is the ONE thing that 99% of all ...
Views: 737 - The 9-to-5 Home Business Tug of War - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Perhaps the scarcest commodity the new home-business owner just starting out has is time. This is particularly so if you are also working a traditional, full-time job and building up your business "on the side" in your spare time. So how do you go about burning the candle ...
Views: 887 - Focus Your Light - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Remember when you were a kid how you could make paper catch fire by focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass? You'd look over your shoulder at the sun, get the angle of the rays just right, and move the magnifying glass until you could see a small circle of bright ...
Views: 696 - Are You Afraid to Sell? - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Relationship marketing. It's the backbone of a successful online business. Fail to forge online relationships and your business will suffer. Simple enough concept, right? But what does "relationship marketing" really mean? Simply put, it refers to the principle that, in ...
Views: 785 - The Lure of Easy Money - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
You might be forgiven for thinking that competition is fierce if you run an online business. After all, every day - day in, day out - you, me and everyone else is constantly bombarded by offers from every man and his dog for various programs that promise us the means to ...
Views: 751 - How Do I Start a Home Business? - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
From time to time (at least once a day actually) I'll get an impossible-to-respond-to email that says something like, "How can I work from home?", or "I want to start my own home business. Please send info." or even, "Please send free info.". Naturally such vague, ...
Views: 963 - The Isolation Monster and How to Slay It - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious benefits such as working your own hours, not having to face a stressful, tedious commute every day, actually seeing what your garden looks like in daylight ...
Views: 809 - Offline Promotion Matters Too - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
With all the talk of the importance of search engine positioning, online directories, keyword metatags and publishing your own ezine, you might be forgiven for thinking that the online world is the only one that matters when it comes to promoting your online business. Only ...
Views: 732 - When Worlds Collide - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
For many people, working from home sounds like an ideal arrangement. You don't have to waste time commuting to and from the office, you can be home for your children when they come home from school, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself and you can work the hours ...
Views: 890 - Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall - by "Into every life a little rain must fall." And into every business too. Don't have the luxury of surplus cash to fund a rainmaker for your business? Well then, it'll have to be up to you. As usual. Here's how:
YOU HAVE VERY LITTLE COMPETITION
"Everyone wants to win on Sunday, but not ...
Views: 924 - Flushing Out Frauds - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
"... ALWAYS carry out your own due diligence! Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Regular readers will recognize the above language. It comes from the "Caveat Emptor" section which appears towards the end of each issue of A Home-Based Business ...
Views: 787 - Choosing The Right Home Business For YOU - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Pay any attention at all to your email inbox and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only way to run a business from home is on the Internet. Sure, many people are running spectacularly successful Internet-based home businesses. Many, many more are doing so even more ...
Views: 766 - Personal discipline and the Home-Based Business Owner - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Allow me to let you in on a little secret you're probably already wise to anyway. As often as not, the inspiration for article topics comes from struggles with my own personal demons. Writing about them is my way of giving myself a good talking to (a.k.a. kick in the rear ...
Views: 675 - Health Insurance for the Self-Employed - Protecting Your Business's Greatest Asset - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
"I've been considering quitting my full-time job and getting a part-time job that would pay the bills [so I can start a home business] ... The one biggie my full-time job provides me now is health insurance. If I was to get a part-time job, I'd probably have to pay for my ...
Views: 808 - Ezine Publishing As A Business - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
If you have your own website, or are planning to create one soon, in the course of your research you will have read about the importance of publishing an ezine (electronic newsletter) as a way of generating traffic to your site.
-- Note to purists: yes I DO understand ...
Views: 1201 - Article ... The Best Form Of Free Advertising - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Those of you reading this who run your own online businesses know that the aim of the game is traffic - qualified, targeted traffic - and lots of it.
There are a number of ways to drive qualified traffic to your site - some of it costs you money, some of it costs you ...
Views: 758 - The Truth About Affiliate Programs - by Affiliate programs are a brilliant idea. For the owner of the product, they're a way of recruiting a veritable army of salespeople to promote your product without having to pay them a dime unless and until they generate a sale. For the affiliate, they're a great way of earning extra cash from an ...
Views: 747 - Unleash the Potential of Booklets to Market Your Business - by Does writing a booklet make you an 'authorlette' ? It sure does. That is one of several key reasons to write an informational tips booklet - author status as an expert on your topic. It takes much less time, money, and stress to write a booklet than writing a full-length book, and can bring as ...
Views: 705 - Who Is Managing Your Career? - by Submitted on May 08, 2007 from Iris WoodI was reminded of this story by Trish, a former colleague. I hadn’t forgotten, because it was the catalyst for a new career advancement strategy I developed. In my various human resource roles I advised my clients of the benefits of taking responsibility for keeping their own company ...
Views: 868 - The Best Paid Position In The World - by Submitted on May 07, 2007 from Dwayne GilbertThere is one job in the world that pays a thousand times more than any other position. There is one thing you can do that will give you a bigger return on your investment than any other ten jobs combined. With the proper study and application of the skills necessary to do this job you will have ...
Views: 1064 - So, You Want to Be a Public Speaker? - by Submitted on May 06, 2007 from Craig HarperPublic speaking is a curiosity; most people either love it... or are absolutely terrified of it. Some people are physically ill just saying their name in front of a group... while others will wrestle you to the ground to rip a microphone from your hand. Over the years I have done somewhere ...
Views: 925 - CHANGE YOUR CAREER IN FIVE SIMPLE STEPS - by Are you happy with your career? I wasn’t happy with mine. But I stayed in it for many years because I had a powerful disabling belief that I could not find a comparable position. I didn’t realize that I could change my career and my life at any time by following five simple steps. The first and ...
Views: 1386 - What's Important in Choosing Your Career - by There are many different criteria that people use in choosing a certain job or career--security, recognition, power, life purpose, and others. If you happen to be in serious financial difficulty or on the edge of being out on the street, you choose a job for survival reason--whatever will pay ...
Views: 1428 - How to Find a Career You Love - by Does your current job feel satisfying? Is your life missing excitement and passion? Do you feel alive only in your spare time outside of work?
Careers that Satisfy the Soul. Most people don't find their careers fulfilling or meaningful. And today more and more people are dissatisfied with this ...
Views: 1113 - How to Build Your Career with Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - by 1. EQ starts with self-awareness. Know your strengths.
Take the StrengthsFinder(tm) profile and find out what your innate abilities are so you can build your career around them. This assessment is available when you buy "Now, Discover Your Strengths," by Buckingham and Clifton.
2. Evolve ...
Views: 837 - Coaching, Part I: What Does a Personal Coach Do? - by Permission is granted to reproduce article if byline and links stay intact. Courtesy copy appreciated.
Personal coaching has burst upon the scene. Everyone’s got one. You think you might want one. But what do they do? Here’s one example.
Charles M. Schultz, Creator of “Peanuts,” said: “I ...
Views: 794 - Thoughts Run Our Lives - by The major function of our subconscious mind is to take orders! What kind of thoughts are we sifting through our subconscious on a daily basis? When we worry about having enough money, love, work, we're we're not giving orders...we're focusing on "lack" which will surely produce more of the same. ...
Views: 697 - Sell Creatively - by Sadly, many sales people block their creativity. They consider themselves nothing more than harvesters of existing business. They take orders, fill out paperwork, collect their commissions and go home. Those sales people play a role in our economy. Of course, they are well along the road to ...
Views: 634 - Sell On The First Call - by One of the concepts I’ve been preaching and practicing for years is also one that is very often misunderstood: I believe you should present a specific idea-based proposal to every prospect on your very first call on them.
This suggestion invariably sends traditional consultive sellers into ...
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