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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 7M ago

How Do I Find My Ideal Clients?

TweetI’ve often heard business described as a three legged stool, leave out one leg and sitting on the stool will cause you to topple over at best and constantly struggle to maintain your balance at worst, which is exhausting and eventually you will fall over anyway. These three legs are: Finances C
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 8M ago

Are Rules For Keeping Or Breaking In Business?

TweetSo you’ve set up in business.  Now what?  Well depending on your personality you will either cut your own path or you will run yourself ragged following all the rules and regulations that are out there.  More than likely you will fall somewhere in between those two ranges, like most business ow
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 9M ago

Business Mums – Are You Playing Or Are You For Real?

TweetI have had many jobs down through the years.  All through the eighties and nineties when many people were finding it difficult to either get or hold onto a job I found it relatively easy because I treated it professionally.  I was for real! I had skills in more than one area of employment and [
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 9M ago

3 Magical Mindset Moves

TweetYou generally have a positive mindset, you see the good, the possibilities in things, you achieve (most of ) your goals and overall you are happy.   Your business is ticking along or growing and life is good. Great! How often have you encountered something difficult and after trying to give it
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 10M ago

Drill First, Skim Next

TweetAnybody who has read Napoleon Hill’s book Think And Grow Rich will be familiar with the phrase: “Drill an inch wide and a mile deep” Yet how many new business owners stick with that principle?  When we set up in business we often have so much to do that in that process itself that our [...]
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 11M ago

Unfavourable Forfeits From Floppy Focus

TweetHelp us to WIN The Best Coaching Blog 2011. Click on the picture below and vote ONLY ONCE by clicking on the green up arrow beside Encouraging Excellence Blog You are a business owner and are busy running your business to (hopefully) the best of your ability.  You do up a To-Do list and then [.
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 12M ago

You Might As Well Quit…!

TweetI’ve been reminded recently by quite a few small business owners that they felt that they didn’t really feel like they had much choice about becoming self-employed and also reminded that some of them still resent what they consider their options being limited, due to no fault of their own. They
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 1Y ago

Do You Have The Ronseal Factor?

TweetWe all see the adverts on television and some of them we can recite from memory, often including the tone of voice too.  I’m sure many of you remember the Ronseal adverts.  Y’know, the one where the man was wood staining his front door and stated that it said on the tin it would be [...]
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 1Y ago

So You Wanna Be A….

Tweet“I wanna be a (insert your own wanna here) so much”.  This is a phrase I hear quite a lot in my line of work.   My reply to that is always “So what is stopping you?” At this point there usually comes a stream of excuses..ahem..reasons as to why they are not being what [...]
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Encouraging Excellence's Blog · 1Y ago

5 Basic Blocks To Building Brilliant Businesses

TweetWe all have in us the potential to be the most successful business person we can be, yet many people don’t even consider this to be an option in their lives.  For those that do there are many that will not succeed at it.  In this post I’ll go through five of the main blocks [...]
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