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7 Tips to Communicate Calmly
I was asked recently to be on a television show as their communication expert. My job was to help a family who tended to scream and yell at each other a lot, and did not seem to enjoy family time to say the least. Here is a little bit about my day with them, and the same 7 tips I gave them on communicating calmly and more effectively.
10 Reasons Everyone Needs a Vacation
Off and on over the years I have taken vacation time. It is only recently that I have been conscious of its value. There have been times when I felt too busy to leave work. Other times I thought my work was at a crucial juncture and it wouldn't get accomplished without me. All solo professionals know that the revenue generation stops while the owner is away. For me that is yet another reason not to vacation. I know I am not alone in making excuses not to take a vacation. According to the Take Back Your Time organization "43% of American workers didn't even take a solid week off." What are the benefits of taking a vacation?

Do you have what it takes to become an Entreprenear and Profit Online from Home?
It takes an extra ordinary individual to take the plunge and become an Entrepreneur. Firstly, you must be willing to risk losing some money in the beginning, as all legitimate businesses require a start up to get going and a bit extra for marketing. Are you willing to give it all you have got in the beginning to get your business off the ground? This means sacrificing family time in the beginning, or your favorite TV program, and even losing out on your precious sleep.

Why Do You Want to Work From Home, Anyway? (be sure to stay balanced)
Ask any one person what they want from life. Most will give the same answer. Most people just want to spend time with the ones they love and enjoy their lives to the fullest degree possible. Having money is nice; having fancy homes and cars and other luxuries is nice; but I think you'll find that most people are more interested in having meaningful loving relationships with family and friends than they are in being rich. I don't think that anyone on their death-bed would ask to be surrounded by all of the "stuff" they've accumulated throughout their life. People wanna be surrounded by friends and family; the ones they love.
7 Tips to Attracting What You Want
We all aspire to be, do and have great things. Yet most of us simply aren’t creating the results we want. We don’t have enough money, romance, success or joy in our lives. But what we need to understand is that greatness exists in all of us. It is simply up to us to pull it out of ourselves. We all have the ability to create the life we want. We just need to learn how to do it. Here are 7 of my top tips to jump-start your success and start "attracting" what you want into your life.

60 Hour Work Weeks Can You and Your Career Survive Them
In the 80s while I was an account executive for AT&T most people in my organization worked normal (for then) business hours. By that I mean they arrived close to 8 or 8:30AM and left between 5 and 5:30PM. By 6 PM the office was empty. No one seemed to notice or care how many hours people worked. I had a boss nicknamed "Dry Cleaner Sam" because they joked he was "in by 10, out by 4".

Start A Home-Based Business Successfully With Your Spouse
To start a home-based business with your spouse, you will need to plan ahead on how you will work together. Here are 5 tips to help you.
5 Top Tips for Happy Holidays
From a distance, the holiday season looks great - full of warmth, laughter, cosy family time, beautiful decorations and delicious food. However, as an adult with ADHD, you know this time of year can be highly stressful. You have to coordinate and incorporate a lot of extra things into your already busy life. Keeping a tidy, clean house (for guests), money management (lots of extra expenses), planning ahead, organizing events and travel arrangements, managing your time and keeping in check perfectionist and procrastination tendencies could be a potential nightmare. But it doesn’t have the be. The key to enjoying the holidays is to find balance. Do enough so that you enjoy and celebrate the holidays, yet not TOO much that you are frazzled, burned out and in debt.
Do you put your living on hold?
Do you put living on hold because of the needs/demands of everyday life? What are your excuses?

Getting Clarity in Decision Making
Good decision making is important for effective leadership and career success. Good decisions, made in a timely manner can make all the difference to your success. Poor decisions court failure, affecting your status and leadership of your own life. Bradley Foster takes your through a couple tools that will help you get clarity even in the midst of some of the most difficult decisions.

Prepare for online success
When looking to run a successful business you must know how to plan for a productive day.

Why Work From Home?
Why continue squeezing in your personal life around work. Instead, manage work around personal life while delivering a decent or even extraordinary income. What a concept!

Time is a Valuable Commodity; Make it Work for You
Have you ever wanted to spend more time with your family? Or have you ever had a hobby you wish you could spend more time with? You are the one who has control over your time and how you spend it.

Balance for small business owners
A brief discussion on creating balance for the life of a small business owner.
Planning to be a Work At Home Mom?
If you are absolutely sure of becoming a work at home mom, there is no better time to start than now. Being a work at home mom comes with many advantages- you can enjoy all the more flexibility and family time, and most importantly you can pursue your passions- doing what you like best. Most of us spend the majority of our time cooped up inside an office for close to 9 hours every day; and not to mention the traveling up and down from work.
Entrepreneurs – You’ve Decided To Build Your Business In Your Spare Time – What’s Your Plan?
You’ve got a great business idea, and are keen to get started on your new business, BUT you’ve also got a family, mortgage and other commitments. How do you get your new business running but still pay the bills and see the family and friends?
Holidaze: Beating the Holiday Blues and Stress
The holidays are a joyous and jovial time. But for some, this simply is not true. The added pressures and anxieties of this wonderful season can really weigh on someone, and affect both their personal and professional lives. This article can help vaccinate your organization’s employees' holiday blues by taking these preventive measures.

How do mums in business get organised and focused...
Getting organised when you are a business mum is a tough ask for many people, especially with kids in tow! Being focused and organised can be done, and with a business to run, it is absolutely essential.
Start a Business-Where does your drive come from?
When you doubt your ability to start a business you are human. When you express that doubt through inaction, fear and anxiety you are writing a tale of fear, doubt and insecurity for your children. What you say about your present job, career or business is what your children believe and is what will become their reality. Look into your child's future and see them in your present day shoes.

THE PLIGHT OF THE PERFECTIONIST
Perfectionism can be paralysing. Perhaps perfectionists could be helped if we adopted the motto of a well known sports brand and learnt to “just do it”. Instead of waiting for perfection, life would be a little easier if we just did it.

Brainpower For The Overwhelmed
Another great article about our overwhelming schedules, information overload and constant, unrelenting stress. Eileen discuss how we got to where we are and gives meaningful tips to help us relieve stress and get in control.
Yes, No & The Choices We Make
How do we go about making changes and gain better balance in life? It starts by looking at the choices being made. You are either moving away from or towards balance and harmony based on your daily choices.

Business Mums – How to successfully juggle being a Mum and an Entrepreneur?
As mums we already have a busy life and it is a well known fact that women are great at juggling a hundred and one things at once. But when it comes to taking on a small business as well, things get a little more challenging. As any business mum already knows it can be challenging trying to juggle the children and a business smoothly but it can be done and you don’t need to be ‘superwomen’. Organisation and a ‘great well oiled plan’ is the key if you wish to create a successful business and lifestyle. When becoming a mum in business it is important to have a balance between your children/family and your small business, otherwise your new business will take over. So here are some great tips to help you successfully juggle both.
Politics in the Office
Can you have civil discourse in the office on the 3 Taboo Topics of sex, religion & politics? I hope so, what else is there to talk about?
How To Spend More Time With Your Family
A coaching call with a new client prompted me to write this week's article. Mary admitted with great sadness that it was her family that suffered the most from her being so consumed by her business. When you make your family a priority, you will find the time to spend with them. I hope this week's article will move you to get a grip on your priorities and take action.

Staying Motivated In A Struggling Economy
Fear is a very powerful emotion. When we live in fear, even of the unknown, there is a tendency to isolate, exert control and be on the defensive. It drains our energy and creates exhaustion. The majority of coaching conversations I am having these days are about this fear generated by a struggling economy. Worry over business progress, finding a job, salary and bonus eliminations, increased job performance expectations have taken over people’s mindsets thus decreasing motivation and focus for themselves and their business.

Effective Time Management: Complete Your Tasks Easily And Have Time For Your Family
When we think about effective time management we often look at it as a means of better organising our professional lives. However, it is also a valuable tool for maximising and making better use of your leisure time and the time you spend with your family.

Personal Boundaries: The Key to Creating Work and Life Your Way
When you think of the word boundary, what images does it conjure up; A fence around a pasture, a concrete barrier between two lanes of highway, how about the Berlin Wall? These are all physical boundaries. What about boundaries in your work and life?

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Is Owning a Business Part of Your Retirement Plan?
What considerations do you make for your retirement? What is your vehicle of choice to get you closer to more time with your family, traveling, or time with your hobbies? You may be able to reach your goals sooner in life by buying in a franchise or business of your own. An opportunity may exist where you may involve your family for more time together and reach your defined goals, together.
Time Management Tips to get more every day
Time management can be a real challenge for anyone in sales. We have demands placed on us by our company, our manager, our clients, our family, our friends. Balance in life is so important, so here are some tips on time management specifically for sales professionals. Using thee ideas will enable you to get more done in lass time every day and ensure you have "self time" and "family time" to yourself.
Seeing the Big Picture
The Fourth of July weekend is a great time to kick back and look around at your family. This is the time of year that most of us stop and see the big picture….the reasons why we work so much; the reasons for putting up with the daily stresses; the reasons for 40-60 hours of labor. It is all part of a bigger picture……it is not the money that we get every other Friday! It is the joy, the memories, the time we get to cherish with our friends and family.
Who Will Save the Heroes?
This article is intended for you to take a serious look of how you and I should view ourselves and to change our way of thinking. It also opens up the idea of working hard for yourself as you would a complete stranger that is rich because of your time, effort and sacrifice. Hopefully it makes you look at time in how precious it is to you and how important, understanding and gracious your family is to accept all the sacrifices being done. May it inspire you to value your time, family and yourself and to become who you truly are...
Family Businesses Face Unique Challenges: What Makes Them Different?
In matters of cash flow and marketing, a family-owned or closely-held business is the same as any other small business. But family-owned and closely held businesses also they have significant differences, especially when it comes time to talk about retirement, resale, or transitioning the business to the next generation. Here were some key points noted by the Family Business Institute on what makes family-owned businesses different:
The Gift Of Receiving
Every family has one. That one person who shoulders all the family burdens, keeps the family secrets and cleans up the family messes. The one who is everyone’s sounding board and shoulder to cry on. The one who remembers all the holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. The one around whom the family always gathers. In my family, it’s my grandma. She has been the rock in my family for as long as anyone can remember.
Smart Women Practice Quality Not Quantity
This article is about realizing that quality time is much better than the quantity of time we spend in all areas of our lives. Give yourself permission to schedule quality time and really “be” with your family and in your business rather than being there physically but not present. In this case, more is not always better. I find scheduling this “special” time with my family and in my business makes a big difference in the quality of my relationships.

How Work At Home Mom Efficiently Manage The Time
As most work at home moms know, it is not all that easy to juggle between family life and work commitments. What you need is good time management to efficiently organize the activities of your day. When you manage your time properly you are sure to succeed in your home venture and at the same time enjoy your time with your family.

Setting Goals for your Home Based Business
You have left your regular full-life time job to spend time with your family, and start a business of your own. As a work at home you will face many challenges as you struggle to juggle between your business goals and family life. You need to make sure that you don’t end up spending too much time with your family and neglect your work, or vice versa.

Are You Trading Your Time For Money?
Are you working so much that you never have the time to do what you actually want to do? Do you spend quality time with your family and friends? What would happen if you lost your job tomorrow, would you be able to take care of your family and pay your bills?

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