After getting their businesses off the ground, most small-business owners start focusing on growth. The main challenge that most of my clients face when they’re ready to grow is finding the money that allows them to do so.
Here are some strategies for finding the capital you need to take your…
Small-business owners, entrepreneurs, and other go-getters often worry that, in retirement, “spending” (that is, getting rid of) the time they have each day will become a burden akin to a full-time job.
This is a perfectly reasonable and understandable fear, especially if you’ve spent a significant part of your working life…
Last week, I outlined the basics of defining business objectives, and today’s article addresses the closely related topic of business strategies. If objectives are the “what” that you want to achieve, then strategies define how you go about achieving them. In other words, strategies define the specific, day-to-day actions you…
One of the challenges that many of my clients face is the one of getting back into the work world after retiring—and it’s no wonder. Making the decision to go back to work is one thing, but actually reentering the workplace after time off is quite another.
I’ve found that the…
During my years coaching entrepreneurs and business executives, I’ve witnessed many plans get “derailed” by some unforeseen incident—the loss of an essential team member, an unexpected market shift, a changing economic climate, and so on. But with a little work and some mindset shifts, the people who experienced these…
When you plan a trip in your car, you know exactly where to turn and which roads to take because you know exactly where you want to go. But many entrepreneurs I’ve worked with are much less clear about where they want their businesses to go—they may not even know…
Please click the link below to listen to my interview on blogtalkradio with Dr. Erica Goodstone:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drericag/2011/04/19/new-face-of-retirement
It has long been the dream of many Canadian and American workers to ‘retire early’ before the age of 65. For many this has been a possibility. Supplemented by pensions, 401k, RRSPs, savings and Canada Pension/Social Security payments, retirees have had the opportunity to comfortably enjoy their senior years.
Psycho-Cybernetics suggests, "In expecting to grow old at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image …. or, in expecting old age and fearing its onset, we may unwittingly do those very things necessary to bring it about. We begin to taper off on both physical…
