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 [...]

Walking the “Teeter-Totter” Path of Employment and Entrepreneurship

Many people are making the choice of moving into entrepreneurship in a calculated manner, gradually transitioning from full-time employment to full-time entrepreneurship. However, because your life already has many responsibilities and bills which must be paid, that transition may take some time and comes with its own set of challenges. I know many people who [...]

I Just Don’t Know How To Handle This Change!

Change is a constant in life.  Sometimes, it seems like it is for the good and sometimes, well, it just hurts and creates fear.  I know – I’ve had a lot of changes in my life.  I’ve been married and divorced – twice, bought a home, did an about face on my career, raised a [...]

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 [...]

Embracing Your Power

“You know, it’s not more knowledge, it’s not more education, it’s not more facts that we need.  It’s a better use of what we already have that we need to have.  You have each and everyone of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field – if [...]

How Do You Know When Opportunity is Knocking?

“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.” ~ Malbie Babcock In your search for life changes and growth, are you overlooking some obvious resources and opportunities?  Are you reject possibilities because you feel that it’s not exactly what you desire?  The key words here are overlooking and rejecting. A common mistake people [...]

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, [...]

Research a Job and then Decide!

As clients are going through career change, many ideas and opportunities present themselves. Having choices, without solid information, can make decision making difficult. Here are some suggestion to help make the process easier

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 [...]

Networking to Find Work

It is who you know! The best way to find job openings is through networking. Statistically it has been shown that the majority of positions and the best jobs are never advertised. They are usually filled by word of mouth and connections. Who are your connections? Every person you know could be your connection and [...]

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