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Delivering Pizzas in a Mercedes
I went to pick up a couple pizzas for dinner on Monday. In the parking lot there were a few delivery cars with the Domino’s magnetic signs on top. But one of the cars stood out from the others. It was a Mercedes. Recent model year. Good condition. Has it really come to this? Delivering […]
Continue readingA Simple Observation that May Help You Overcome Self-Sabotage
Have you ever been really excited about a new idea… so excited that you dove right in, guns blazing? I know I have. But nearly as many times, my excitement has waned… I have stalled… and my great idea has remained incomplete and unfinished for months. Why do I do this?
Continue readingI AM the Weakest Link!
If there’s anything that reveals how vulnerable a service-based business is, it’s sickness. I’ve been sick since Saturday morning with a really bad cold. Headache, congestion, fever, coughing, the whole bit. Tried to do a little work yesterday, but had trouble getting anything of significance done. Finally, today, I’m feeling better. Or at least well […]
Continue readingKill Your Darlings (in Writing and Business)
Editing can be quite painful because it requires you to delete portions of your writing that you may particularly like — but may not be pertinent to making the sale or telling your story. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said it this way in his 1916 publication “On the Art of Writing”: Whenever you feel an impulse […]
Continue readingLost in Transition
Every interruption in your day creates lost time. Time lost to the interruption itself. And time lost to remembering what you were doing, refocusing, and restarting. The more interruptions — no matter how small they are — the less productive you will be. As you may know, I worked from a home office for 7 […]
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