Are you worried about taking time off over the holidays? Maybe your client will need you. Maybe you will miss the call or email from that prospect you have been courting. Maybe they will be so upset with you that they stop doing business with you. Maybe, but not likely. Doing business and/or not doing […]
Barb Stuhlemmer
Have You Shaken the Employee Mindset Yet?
There are some very distinct differences between the way you think when you are an employee and the way you need to think as an Entrepreneur. Let’s start with an exercise. One day in the near future you find out you have won a lottery. You didn’t even know you had a ticket, but it […]
Think Bigger
The challenge with growth is that we often only plan to get to the next step. Instead you need to think BIG, I mean really BIG. This is difficult for some because we have been taught “be careful what you wish for because you might get it.” If thinking bigger than you have ever wanted […]
It’s Not About ‘You’ – 3 Tips to Help you Focus on ‘Them’
This morning at the Barrie Open Coffee Club our discussion was around Clients – good and bad. It was a reminder to me that even though we are often the only person in our business, the focus of business growth is not about ‘you’ it is about ‘them’ [the client]. We forget this sometimes in […]
It’s All About You
As you step into the mindset of an entrepreneur it can start to feel very lonely. Decisions are made with great insight and research, but not always understood by those around you. Running business can require you to know a lot about the people under you but they cannot know everything about you. And if […]
No Growth Focus = Decline
You may have heard the saying “Do what you’ve always done and you will get what you have always had”. I don’t believe this is true any longer. With the accelerated change of almost everything we know in our world it is insane to think that we can continue to do the same thing over […]
Managing Stress – 3 Tips to Help You Stay Grounded and Feeling in Control
Stress in a business where you are the only one putting in the money and doing most of the work can be overwhelming. It can eat at you while you sleep, waking you to revisit challenges and run through them over-and-over. It can make it hard for you to participate in other life events. Stress […]
Trade Dollars-for-Hours into Leverage
When we are the ones doing all the work in our business than our business is billing only for our time. If you are not billing for any other employees or contractors then you are trading your time for dollars, as you did as an employee. When you run out of time to do the […]
I Missed My Meeting – AND I Was the Host
Growth challenges are many but one key indicator that you are growing is you can’t always handle all the ‘hats’ that you have been wearing. This month I’m revving up to a 2-day event with 4 speakers in Vaughan. It is a lot of work, but nothing like the amount of work it takes to […]
You Are the Olympian?
If we look at a person that has made it to the Olympics it is important to understand how they have become so successful. They spend an average of 8 hours a day, seven days a week focused on their physical being, including their diet, exercise and their practice. It takes focus just to manage […]