Balancing a Job and a Business

Sometimes taking the route of working while building your business on the side, is best of both worlds.  By keeping one foot in the familiar, steady paycheck of being an employee, while dipping your toes into the refreshing waters of entrepreneurship, you may lessen the stresses of self-employment.  This gives you time to test those [...]

Am I Selling Out?

Am I Selling Out? “Am I selling out?”  That was quite a strong question.  I recently had client call who was upset about having to make a difficult choice.  Her choice was to take a part time job, which supplies health benefits, or continue pursuing building her service business full time.  This choice is so [...]

Is This the Right Time to Start a Business?

Is this really the right time to be opening a business?  I mean with the economy and all? I answer these questions with a yes and a no.  Here are the factors that I believe should be seriously considered before beginning any business at any time, but especially now. First, it really depends on a [...]

How Well Are You Communicating?

Suppose you are traveling by car.  It’s late, you’ve been on the road for a long time and you drank too much coffee while waiting for the next exit, which didn’t come for another half hour.  As you walk inside the rest stop you spot a worker and ask one of the following questions: Hey, [...]

The Value of You!

“If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~ Anonymous   Do you value yourself as much as you should? If you do, how does it show in your life? And if you don’t, what is missing in your life because of this? [...]

Scary and Exciting Steps

BRAVE OR CRAZY?! I made a commitment to complete the rough draft of my book by May 3rd!  Yikes!  Scary and exciting at the same time.  I have no doubt that I can do it, but whenever I make a big commitment like that, something inside of me seems to wake up, curl its lip [...]