starting a business

Do you feel like a prisoner to your business

David Gass — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:46:28 -0400

To begin, let me ask you some revealing questions. As a business owner, can you walk away from your business today for one or two months and come back to find it operating smoothly and profitably? Can you even escape for two weeks? Have you ever had a work-free vacation? If your answers are “no”, you don’t have a successful business, you have a glorified job in which you are trapped! You don’t have an effective business system; you are the business system!

How Successful People View Risk

Helen Whelan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:02:11 -0400

Sometimes the greatest risk is the risk not taken. Just ask a successful person or entrepreneur.

"Take the risk out of success…and you’ll live an unfulfilling life!
“The safety net we want doesn’t exist—it’s an illusion. Coming to see
that enabled me to go for it.” Mary Jane Ryan, retired executive
editor of Conari Press

It's in my Blood

chris bradley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:06:30 -0500

Friday, January 18th 2008: Here I sit, in my cubicle trying to put off my work to the last possible moment. I've already deliberately ignored two phone calls so I can write this blog. I guess my mind is elsewhere. I'm thinking about the three doctors I sent emails to last night in hopes they'll join the advisor team I'm creating to help get my business idea off the ground.