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for: ‘August, 2010’

How to focus on nothing but your goals

Your goals are important to you. They are the ones that drive you to do things and to succeed in your enterprise. But there are things that distract you from achieving your goals. These things may not be bad per se, but they can surely keep you busy …

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Quote: Goodwill

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field

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How to give a compliment

The world is getting more negative as the days roll by. Not only do we have negative news, but we have negative attitudes and we are always quick to bad mouth other people. Everyone’s either out to notice every failure or mistake that other people do or they just …

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How to handle sudden changes

Have you ever been driving and come upon an intersection in which you didn’t know which way to go? You look right and the road seems small and plain looking, yet the road to the left is fast and bustling-furious. The person on the left is calling you and the person …

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Quote: It’s all about service

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
Lee Bristol

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Are your goals REAL or just FANTASIES?

Have you ever dreamed about something? Something you really want to have that it makes you angry that you don’t yet have it? Have you ever dreamed about becoming a superhero, flying and lying on the clouds while saving the day? Then you’re pretty much everyone else. …

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Overcoming the pitfalls of too much confidence

Confidence is a very valuable trait that any business person or freelancer should have. It makes you go to different places and have more opportunities to grow your business. But then, you might be getting too confident.
Overconfidence is a common problem. Being pessimistic isn’t good, that’s a no-brainer, but …

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Quote: Commerce

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William Blake

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How to handle negative feedback

Negative feedback is a tough thing to handle. Have you ever received negative feedback before? Say, a friend or family member complaining about you. A client or colleague critiquing your work. A sibling or a child unhappy with something you did.
Negative feedback can be tough to deal with sometimes. You’d prefer …

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Is spam spreading thru facebook chat?

Almost every person who has a Facebook account uses the chat feature. Now there’s some interesting news in Facebook because it was investigating what appeared to be a new spam plot that results in users receiving messages from their “friends” over Facebook chat that have nasty links.
The messages start by …

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