Category: Inspiration & Wisdom

Jun 23

Five Little Words That Limit Your Small Business

I just left my day job to run my Administrative Consulting business full-time.  I started seeing my business improve when I stopped saying (and thinking), “It’s not in the budget.”  Shameca Tankerson, guest blogger at MichelleShaeffer.com, definitely has the right idea!  If you want to blog, or even if you just *think* you *might* want to blog, …

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Jun 11

I’m Not Staying in the Same Place

This quote resonates strongly with me right now because on June 1st, I gave notice at my day job.  I’m going after what I want – helping small business owners to affordably establish and/or maintain a web presence while being my own boss, setting my own hours, and flexing my creative (and technical) “muscles”.  I …

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Jun 01

No Pet Peeve Today…

…just a reminder to take time and enjoy things like weekends… Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

May 11

Attitude is Everything

“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” – Edison

May 02

If at first you don’t succeed…

As small business professionals and entrepreneurs, we probably hear it often, even from our own lips – whether to others or to ourselves – but it certainly bears repeating. I actually see this ‘quote’ quite a bit around the web and it seems to me it’s a paraphrase of this full quote by The British Bulldog: …

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