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Finding Your Carrot - How to Get Motivated when You Work for Yourself

You may be familiar with the fable that involves a farmer dangling a carrot in front of a donkey in order to motivate the donkey to work. When you work from home, there isn’t anyone standing over your shoulder to motivate you. You are the boss and the employee. You have to motivate yourself to […]

Setting SMART Business Goals

You have probably come across many articles, books, and audios that stress the importance of setting goals. Hopefully, you have taken the time to sit down and write out goals for yourself. But are you writing SMART goals? SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time Related.
Specific goals are written out clearly and have […]

Entrepreneurial Lessons from Willy Wonka

What can you learn about business from a children’s movie? You can learn some great entrepreneurial lessons from the film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” starring Johnny Depp.
WARNING -Spoiler Alert- If you have not seen the movie (or the older version) yet, this article may give away a few elements of the story that could reduce […]