Balancing Work and Play: How to Spend your Weekend?

By Jane Morrison – Have you ever noticed the change of pace the weekend brings in regards to working on your business? The weekend for me seems like a holiday from the usual hustle and bustle of the weekday filled with appointments, phone calls, and constant emails. The weekend seems

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What is a Virtual Assistant?

By Gazelle Simmons– Every time someone asks me this question, I answer them by saying “Everything that an Admin. Assistant could do for you, if he or she was outside of your office, I can do for you. I help small business owners nationwide grow their businesses from my own

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Chucking Your Career Isn’t the Answer (Usually)

By Kathy Caprino, M.A. – I’ve spent eight years working with individuals to achieve successful professional growth, change, and reinvention. I know a good deal about the process personally too, as I’ve traversed a number of diverging career paths over the past 20 years, including corporate marketing, market research, marriage

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5 Tips to Refresh, Feed and Grow Your Network

By Donna Kastner – By age 50+, it’s likely you’ve made hundreds, if not thousands of network connections. Networking connections happen everywhere – at work, at school, at church, at neighborhood barbecues, at cocktail parties. Sometimes the best new connections come when you least expect them. Networks are incredibly valuable,

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Sharpening Your Axe

By Beverly Lewis – Abraham Lincoln quipped, “If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 hours sharpening my ax.” In the budget slashing necessitated by the recession, many companies cut their conferences, conventions and training budgets at the same time they were expecting more

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Personal & Professional Alignment

By Dr. Jo Anne White – Is personal and professional alignment even possible? Personal and professional alignment is about your words & actions being consistent with your values & core beliefs. 1. How do you know when there’s a mismatch? 2. What happens when there is alignment? 3. How can

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How to Handle Interruptions

By Beth Havey – How would you describe the normal flow of your day? Seamless, free-flowing, or bumpy, and frustratingly slow? Often it just depends, right? Sometimes the tasks we assign ourselves are accomplished in no time and often we get nothing done or very little. Why is that? Interruptions. They

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Thrive and Survive Through Multi-Tasking

By Susan Lawrence – Have you read the recent research that multi-tasking is bad for you*? Apparently, people who grow accustomed to moving quickly from one task to another are easily distracted by irrelevant information, less productive, and less successful on tests. Really! I’m offended. Who are the multi-taskers in

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The Secret to Motivating Yourself and Others

By Dr. Susan Rempel The clock is ticking. The days are flying by. And all you can think is, “Do I have to do _____ again?” You can fill in the blank. We all have things to do in life that are boring or unpleasant. Yet, we must do them.

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Dare to Ask! The Woman’s Guidebook to Successful Negotiating

By Cait Clarke – Excerpt from Date to Ask! The Women’s Guidebook to Successful Negotiating Barely a month into his presidency, Barak Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. “I want to be clear that issues like equal pay … are not just

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Five Steps to Set the Stage for an Entrepreneurial Encore

By Donna Kastner – Boomers are known for their hard work, drive and persistent climb UP the corporate ladder. But for some of us, we’re looking for a graceful way to climb back DOWN that ladder. “Midlife crisis is getting to the top of the ladder, only to discover it

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Living the Dream

By: Kathy Nelson Can you imagine living your life in pursuit of your happiness? As a Success Coach, I have the honor and privilege of working with people’s deepest wishes and dreams. I have seen so many dreams become life’s reality and create the happy story that they are staring

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Backing Out Gracefully

By Jeannine Clontz One of the most difficult things for me, when honing my business ethics, is making sure I keep the emotion out of my response. We’re all emotional beings, me sometimes more so than others are, but when it comes to maintaining good business ethics, taking a step

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Effective Business Writing in 5 Easy Steps

By Nichole Bazemore I was watching the news the other day, when a story came on about an attempted robbery at local convenience store. The reporter interviewed a police spokesperson, who described for the audience how it all went down: “At approximately 6:58 p.m., the suspect entered the establishment, where

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5 Success Tips to Start: Successful Solopreneurship

By Donna Amos – Building a business is a fantastic and challenging experience. You can wake up exhilarated to begin your day and go to bed feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. The key to success is to maintain a positive, yes you can do it, mindset. I believe many businesses fail

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