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There Are No Dumb Business Questions Not
I've gotten a few head-scratchers in response to this column. You know who you are, but don't worry, your secret is safe with me. I have a confession to make. Writing an advice column, whether it be advice for love or money or business, is often hard to do with a straight face. Occasionally a question comes over the digital transom that just makes me go, "Huh?"

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Lesson #1: Overcome Your Fears
“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls Leah Adler, Spielberg’s mother. “When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed.” From childhood anxieties to professional worries, Spielberg is a living example of the success that is possible when you move beyond your fears, when you put away those nagging worries in your head and focus instead on your goals.

Make Time For Your Life Before it's Too Late
It’s amazing to see so many people who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their business. I’m sure you know of someone like that. They get up at the crack of dawn, drag their weary bodies out of the house and head off for another rollercoaster ride at work. Ten or twelve hours later they head home totally exhausted with all their energy sapped from their body.
Stress Management
We’ve all had it happen to us before: we’re just about to head home from the office for the day when a colleague asks us if we could stay just a bit later to help them with something. And, against the advice of the little voice in your head telling you to go home to your family, you accept. Ignoring that little voice of ours is what so often leads to us becoming inundated with more projects that we can handle. And that is why no matter in what line of business you work, it is important to understand and master the principles of stress management.

There Are No Dumb Business Questions Not
I've gotten a few head-scratchers in response to this column. You know who you are, but don't worry, your secret is safe with me. I have a confession to make. Writing an advice column, whether it be advice for love or money or business, is often hard to do with a straight face. Occasionally a question comes over the digital transom that just makes me go, "Huh?"
Stress Management: Fast Track to Calm
Does your life look like a race car running at cut-throat speed and, to your horror, the brakes are broken? Do you feel like you are perpetually in a hurry, even when you are not in a hurry to go anywhere? Do you feel like all the items on your to-do list are dancing around in your head, and you can't seem to concentrate on any of them? Do you run around like a chicken without a head all day, and still feel like you will never "catch up?" Then this article is for YOU.
How to Develop Successful Marketing Promotion
This article takes the mystique out of creating successful marketing promotion for small business entrepreneurs. It demonstrates methods to develop effective advertising to compete head-to-head with competitors of any size. The article outlines step by step procedures that can be used for any medium. – Read the article.

Incentives Increase Profits
During this staggering economy, businesses are brainstorming for ideas that will result in sales. They are looking for ways that will help their business grow instead of head in the direction of failure. A business idea to help head in the path of success is to offer incentives to your current clients or incentives to lure new ones in. These ideas that will help increase your profits include offering coupons, referral rewards and points to use toward future purchases.

Extending your Expectations
Earlier this week, I had a lengthy conversation with the head coach of a major college basketball team. We were discussing the recent NCAA tournament, better known as The Big Dance or March Madness. My friend, as a player, assistant coach, and now a head coach, has been to the tournament many times. There are 65 teams that make it to the tournament. Some get there by winning their conference while others are invited due to their national ranking, difficulty of schedule, or strength of their program.

7 Ways HR Consultants Can Find Corporate Head Honchos
Independent human resource consultants are always looking for contact information for the head honcho at specific companies. They just know in their heart of hearts that if they could talk to the head honcho they'd be able to convince her that she needs to hire them to keep her company out of HR hot water. Good news; there are a variety of tools online to help you find that information.
The 5% Challenge
I am very intentional about my use of time, working from a schedule that I create weeks in advance. But that does not mean that I work head down for 8 hours without taking a break. I once worked with a high-level financial executive that told me for 26 years at his previous company he had worked “head down, pencil up.” And he was dreadfully out of touch with currents trends and opportunities.

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