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Sunday Quotes 07.08.07 2007-07-08 05:00:00 "The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Unknown "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spiteof overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." -- Henry Miller "There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner." -- Denis Waitley "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, Poet and Novelist "No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty." -- Napoleon Hill <:))))><< ...

Making Time For Your Kids When You Own A Business 2007-07-07 05:00:00 Making Time For Your Kids When You Own A Business When you own a business, no matter if you run it from your home or if you have an office building that your business is located in, making time for your kids is always something that you want to focus on, and it is always something that you are going to be concerned with. If you want to be able to be there for your kids, you have to be sure that you are making time for them. With a home business, or a small business, this can be very hard because there might often be times in which you simply have to be wherever the business is, and you can’t afford to not be there. This is something that you might find very difficult because if you take time away from your business your business is going to suffer and therefore you won’t have the money to help your kids have the kind of life you want them to have. However, what good is the money for your children if you don’t’ spend enough time with them and you don’t know them very we ...

What Is A Business Plan? 2007-07-06 05:00:00 What Is A Business Plan? When you have a home business, you might not have thought about a business plan, but you are going to need one, and you should do your best to make sure that you have one set up before you start with your business. This is something that you need, no matter what type of business you have, and no matter how you plan on going about your future with the home business. A business plan is going to be a must, so be sure that you have one set up. What Is It When it comes to your business, you are going to need a business plan. Remember that a home business is always going to either offer a product or offer a service in exchange for money. This is an over-simplification, but it is the one rule that you can stand by. You need to be able to make money, so you need people to pay you for your service or for whatever item you sell. The business plan, then, is a way of setting this up and making sure that it is going to work. In your home business plan you are goin ...

Small Business Organizations To Join 2007-07-05 05:00:00 Small Business Organizations To Join For the small business owner, keeping up with all of the available benefits can be difficult. In addition, how does one meet the requirements for a minimum number of employees in order to find good rates on insurance? Unlike the larger companies, it's not as simple as calling someone and knowing you qualify to participate. Many insurance plans require a minimum number of participants in order to offer group rates, so oftentimes the small business owner is left in the cold. This is the point where a small busine4ss can take advantage of some of the various organizations that exist just for them. Various organizations offer different benefits for the small business organization, including those who come together as an association so that small business can take advantage of benefits previously only offered to large businesses. For examples, some credit unions offer insurance benefits to their members at group rates, while labor unions quite frequen ...

Learn How To Take A Day Off When Running A Business 2007-07-04 05:00:00 Learn How To Take A Day Off When Running A Business When you are running a business, the tendency that you are going to have to fight the most is the one that tells you to work all of the time. It is a funny paradox, because a lot of the time, a person goes into their own business so that they don?t? have to work so much, and so that they can set their own hours. This happens very often ? however, when a person decides to have a home business, what happens next is that they come up with something that they love, and something that they are very passionate about. This, coupled with the fact that the business is now located in their home or very close to their home makes lots of people feel like they should work all of the time. There is a real tendency that you have to fight to work for 24 hours a day and to never take a day off. Good To Be A hard Worker First of all, be proud of yourself for wanting to work so hard. If you have found something that you love to do, and you are ...

Running A Home business & Working Full Time Outside Your Home 2007-07-03 05:00:00 Very few people will claim they are bringing enough money home to meet all their needs and wants. Several will begin a home business to supplement their income while remaining at the full time job outside. This can take a toll on the personal life as well as the health of just about anyone running a home business and working full time outside the home. One of the first considerations should be is the home business in conflict with the full time job as many employers will not tolerate competition from one of their employees. For example, a person working in a retail environment in nearly any capacity may find themselves in conflict with company policies if they begin an online retail outlet. Or someone working for a carpet cleaning company starting a home business offering cleaning services part time as a home business. Being in conflict often forces the employee to make a choice of keeping their full time job or finding work elsewhere. There are many home business opportunit ...

Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction 2007-07-02 05:00:00 Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction - Jim Rohn What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition and that is within you - in every thought, in every movement, in every motivation. Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression. Self-expression... Isn't self-expression really self-direction? How you think, how you move, how you motivate yourself. Ambition is a result of self-direction and self-direction is one of the six key principles necessary for building ambition. Positive self-direction says, "I know who I am and I know where I want to go. I'm accumulating knowledge and experiences and feelings and philosophies that will help prepare me for opportunities that I know will show up without notice or any help on my part." Because you know where you want to go, you have already been working on the parts of your personality that will make you better. Working on your attitude, working on ...

Sunday 07.01.07 2007-07-01 05:00:00 "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- Unknown "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." -- Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister  "Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." -- Dr. Maxwell Maltz "There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him." Unknown As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to rema ...

It Doesn't Take A Man To Run A Business: Women Business Owners 2007-06-30 05:00:00 It Doesn't Take A Man To Run A Business: Women Business Owners Owning a business used to be a man's world, and many of them still think they have a monopoly on business ownership. The truth is that as more women enter into the world of business ownership, men are finding that they have to compete with an equal partner who knows just as much if not more than he does about running a business. This is likely the result of more women attending college and pursuing degrees in business that make them at least equivalent to a man in terms of business expertise. Certainly many men do not like to admit that, but many women have the personal skills to work better with the public than their male counterparts. As women, and especially mothers, we have more patience when dealing with issues than our male counterparts. This is especially true of a retail business that requires a large amount of problem solving. Does the fact that more women ar ...

How To Write Up A Yearly Business Plan 2007-06-29 05:00:00 How To Write Up A Yearly Business Plan It's important to have a business plan for your business each year so that you can see what your needs are for the coming year and to show yourself and the bank how far you have progressed since your original business plan was written. A new business writes a business plan in order to show their intentions to operate and to provide information to financial institutions in support of start up capital and funding for other operations. In most cases, the banks want to see three to five year projections showing your intention for the funding. Depending on the scope of the business, they may only finance the first year, and will want additional proof that the business is progressing along the terms of the original business plan before they will advance any more funds. Since you are not able to really show much in the way of financial records, having a business plan also shows potential creditors what you antici ...

Why It Is Better To Work For Yourself 2007-06-28 05:00:00 Why It Is Better To Work For Yourself Good-bye daily grind, long commutes, noisy fellow workers and dictating bosses.  It's time to step out and start your own business.  The time has come to put your talents, ideas and education to work for you.  Be brave, you can do it. In deciding to work for yourself you might want to reflect on what you are leaving behind.  The first thing that you might be missing is that steady and reliable paycheck.  This sense of security however might be holding you back.  Benefits, such as insurance, is another big draw in the work field.  There are plenty of insurance companies that would love to have you as a client.  Last but not least is a retirement package.  Start your own.  Sure you won't have a company matching what you put in, but if you are successful you can exceed their amount.  Now that we have looked at what you are leaving behind, let's look at the future.  You can now be your ...

One of the first online businesses someone should attempt......is GDI. 2007-06-27 05:00:00 One of the first online businesses someone should attempt......is GDI.  Global Domains International. I believe that GDI is a great company for anyone from the beginner (to practice) to the mega advanced networker with the huge contact list...BECAUSE... the beginner, only has to put out $10 a month to start practicing the "Network Marketing Game" vs. the advanced, can very likely easily hit 10K per month income even within 30 days. Top three reasons I feel GDI is SOLID. 1. SIMPLE and it can be duplicated. 2. Affordable for almost EVERYONE ($10 a month).3. HIGH RETENTION.4. TRAINING. Make it a great day! Jon Clayton860-265-3655<:))))><<  ...

How To Make Ends Meet When You Own A Business 2007-06-26 05:00:00 How To Make Ends Meet When You Own A Business Although owning your own business may be the "best thing I ever did," it has its drawbacks, especially in the early days. Many people have unrealistic ideas about business ownership, thinking that it's going to provide them this six figure income right from the first day, especially those who buy into a franchise or established retail business. When they find out that they aren't earning the income they thought they would, they begin to worry that they have made a mistake in judgment and worry about making ends meet. Pre-planning solves a great deal of stress that is involved when building your business during its early creation. The reason many new business owners have trouble making ends meet is because they fail to plan properly for the days that are going to yield less income. On average, it takes a new business anywhere from three to five years to turn a decent profit. That is tru ...

Four Steps to Success! 2007-06-25 05:00:00 Four Steps to Success!By Jim Rohn Let me pass on to you these four simple steps to success: Number one is good ideas. Be a collector of good ideas. My mentor taught me to keep a journal when I was twenty five years old. I've been doing it now all these years. They will be passed on to my children and my grandchildren. If you hear a good health idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review. Going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future. The next step to success is to have good plans. A good plan for the day, a good plan for the future, a good health plan, a good plan ...

Sunday Quotes 06.24.07 2007-06-24 05:00:00 "Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day." -- Zig Ziglar "The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow." -- Zig Ziglar "Do not blame anybody [else]for your mistakes and failures." -- Bernard Baruch Risk! Risk anything!  Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.  Do the hardest thing on earth for you.  Act for yourself.  Face the truth. -- Katherine Mansfield "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller<:))))><< ...