I hate to admit it, but I’m not a go-getter. In fact the old saying “My get up and go got up and went.” holds true for me. I do manage to get things done, so I’m not a hopeless procrastinator – but I push the limits! Procrastination is so prevalent that there are dozens of proverbs and axioms penned about it. Many self-improvement books and articles have been written on the topic, too. There are reasons we procrastinate. A few causes are: We dislike doing things we’re require

Had enough? Can’t take it anymore? Maybe it’s all you can do to survive the day without pulling your hair out. Perhaps you’ve gotten that dream job, and it’s turned into a nightmare. Do you: 1.) make just enough money every month to make ends meet, 2.) spend just enough time with your kids so they don’t forget what you look like, 3. find you don’t have much time to spend doing what inspires you, 4.) wonder if job stress will ruin your health? Feel on an endless treadmill or i

Kyle was discouraged. He had done the things I asked him to do: He had carefully selected his target market, based on size, location, and type of business. He had sent out a first mailing, waited three weeks and sent out another; and the phone wasn’t ringing! There was absolutely no response, it was obvious that no one wanted his cleaning services; he was ready to give up. That was his mental state the day we talked. I reminded him that if success in any endeavor were easy, e

Newsletter subscribers and some of my book readers are often overwhelmed by the variety of options available to them. Questions arise: “How fast can I grow this business?” Or, “How much money can I make?” So, I am going to start a new feature: taking questions and turning them into short blog posts. In this post I’m going to answer the two above questions. I always suggest that you start as a small janitorial business. The advantage of this is that you do not need to have a l