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Experience Doesn’t Make You An Entrepreneur

When they begin inde­pen­dent busi­nesses, older skilled peo­ple have a wealth of valu­able expe­ri­ence in their par­tic­u­lar spe­cialty. But that expe­ri­ence can also lead to a some­times arro­gant belief that they know every­thing there is to know. They don’t. An info­graphic from Con­tactMe, the soft­ware peo­ple, points out that the aver­age age of entre­pre­neurs ...

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Seven Ways To Survive The Change To Your Own Service Business

One of the most dif­fi­cult parts of rein­vent­ing your­self into your own entre­pre­neur­ial ser­vice busi­ness is man­ag­ing the change from cor­po­rate to inde­pen­dent.  But there are ways to get through it. Let’s say right here that no one really likes change. They may say they do, and they may indeed like the idea of change in the abstract. But the details of change? Not...

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Positive Deconstruction: Light Up The Dark

Recently, I expe­ri­enced one of my “gone-dark” peri­ods. I call them that because they’re those hit-rock-bottom emo­tional moments when every­thing seems dark and somber and depressed. In these moods, noth­ing seems good; every­thing seems wrong. There are so many prob­lems swirling around in your brain, that you can’t focus on any of them. You feel like a com­plete fail­ure, that...