How to stay motivated while running a business from home

Did you know that every 11 seconds a home-based business is launched? This is great news for our small business economy. But once the initial excitement of starting a new business wears off , these budding entrepreneurs may face some motiviational challenges.This article gives some tips on how to prevent and overcome some of these challenges.  My favorite tip ...

Starting Your Startup: The Risks and How to Avoid Them

Starting your startup business is an exciting and empowering venture – and an extremely risky one. Only about 25% of startups successfully pay back their investors, and even those face a 53% chance of failing within five years. And technology startups have the highest failure rate, with Allmand Law’s putting it at 90%. I'm not trying to discourage rather than encourage entrepreneurs ...

Are you better off than the workers at Downton Abbey?

I recently viewed this thought-provoking video in which Brett Arends, American writer and journalist, compared and contrasted today’s work conditions with that of 20th century workers. He focused on US workers and used the world of Daisy Mason, the assistant cook at Downton Abbey, as the point of comparison. He concludes that Daisy is better ...

Quotatious Quote – Staying One Step Ahead

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion that day, or it will be killed and eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle that day, or it will starve to death. It doesn't ...