Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Enterprising people simply do more with their 24 hours — working not harder but smarter.
We’re all aware that many people feel that we must be careful when focusing on money or affluence or abundance… that in the pursuit of those things, there is danger. If you [...]

What do I know for sure about creating longevity? For starters, it’s more apt to happen if your business is born from genuine passion. Equally important, it has to be fluid enough to grow and change as you do.
If an undertaking is going to have staying power, it also has to have a built-in challenge [...]

From promotion letter by Christine Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures:
RE: Visionary Advanced Entrepreneurial Training
Dear Colleague: Look, right now is a tumultuous time to be an entrepreneur. The markets are down, investors are tight-lipped and tight-fisted, and interest rates on other forms of capital are rising.
That doesn’t even touch on the traditional hardships of the business owner! [...]

A sign like “We are committed to excellense” may be fun stuff - but what does it do for organization or business identity?
Designer Susan Kirkland points out that desktop publishing “has made it easy for entrepreneurs to sit down at the keyboard and make ‘almost’ professional looking flyers”… [but] those hastily composed flyers frequently do [...]

“There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the [...]

Career counselor Valerie Young leads ChangingCourse, providing resources to help people “discover their life mission and live it.”In her article A Little Knowledge Can Go a Long Way: How to Generate a Steady Cash Flow Using What You Already Know, she writes about examples of entrepreneurs “tapping into the best capital there is - their [...]

An engineer, Mel Rusnov also loves music and describes cultivating that passion in her essay “The Artistry in Hidden Talents” in the book This I Believe:
“I believe in cultivating hidden talents, buried and unrelated to what we do for a living. In ordinary life, I’m a civil engineer. I make a satisfying, comfortable living working [...]

*If you want to be rich you have to be adding value to other people’s lives
* The happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost
* Entrepreneur: person who solves problems for people at a profit
* The more people you help, the richer you become

“To get known in the world, you don’t have to pursue every marketing vehicle, just the right ones. So target like mad. And don’t be afraid to choose new markets to target in the coming year, based on what you REALLY want to accomplish.
“Learn what impresses your market and deliver it. Some niches can rely [...]

Some people find their calling as a result of a wake up call. It might be the death of a loved one, a health crisis, or the loss of a job… [Here are] seven people who took adversity, bad habits, betrayal, and loss and turned these sour experiences into satisfying livelihoods.
Sometimes a bad experience can [...]

One myth is that success can only be obtained if you select your goals early on, know exactly where you’re headed, develop a road map and focus on specific steps toward your long-term goal. The problem with that approach is that your path to success becomes very narrow.
You can become so focused on a distant [...]

Rather than being “nickled and dimed” by clutter and poor systems, invest in the process of getting your business organized. …
List what it is costing you to be disorganized in your entrepreneurial venture. Productivity? Credibility? Stress? Lost leads, which means lost income? An ulcer?
Once you identify your causes of disorder, you will be more likely [...]

“Know your strengths and weaknesses. Creativity is my biggest strength. (It’s a weakness too.) But that doesn’t mean all entrepreneurs need to be creative to be successful.
“You can buy creativity, you can hire creative people, you can steal creative ideas, and you can even learn to be more creative… It’s not important to be creative, [...]