Archive for the 'Success Strategies' Category

My Top 10 Success Habits for an Instant Energy Boost

By Melanie Benson Strick | September 18th, 2007

Years ago I suffered from borderline chronic fatigue. At the time I was working for Motorola and I was constantly overwhelmed and burned out from way to much to do with way too little time. My body and soul were exhausted.My body decided it was done with that kind of stress and promptly gave out. [...]

 
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5 Essential Habits to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 17th, 2007

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A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you spend your energy is how you measure your success.”
Boy did that [...]

 
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How to Transform Over-Commitment, Way-Too-Busy and Mounting Debt with a Simple Strategy to Skyrocket Your Success

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 3rd, 2007

What’s the number one difference between the hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs barely making it and the top 10% who are wealthy, successful and living a life that they love?Knowing the right opportunities to focus on.
Last week I was talking to a new client who suggested how frustrating it was to be putting so much [...]

 
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Monkey Management: 3 Simple Solutions to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Sanity

By Melanie Benson Strick | June 19th, 2007

Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It’s a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and business owners have. William Oncken, author of Management Time: [...]

 
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Do You Have A Hobby or a Real Business: 6 Key Indicators To Know the Difference

By Melanie Benson Strick | May 15th, 2007

As every business owner knows, almost every business is born from a passion for “some thing” that we think we can do better on our own. The need for freedom, independence and unlimited earning potential gets the better of us and the next thing you know, you are in business for yourself.Most of us start [...]

 
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Why Entrepreneurs Must Slow Down to Speed Up

By Melanie Benson Strick | May 1st, 2007

I know you are probably thinking that slowing down to speed up is an oxy-moron. But it’s true. You have to slow down to speed up your results.Let me explain.When I started my business, I had a brilliant coach named Michael Stratford who had a saying…
Slower + Smoother = Faster
At that time, I was running [...]

 
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6 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Trying to Grow Their Bottom Line

By Melanie Benson Strick | April 17th, 2007

Have you ever felt like you were running a rat race? Everything seems like it takes forever, costs 10 times as much as you expected and you still feel like you are a million miles away from achieving your financial goals?That’s because people often approach their financial growth with the wrong strategies. You may have [...]

 
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How to Get More Done by Expecting Less!

By Therese Skelly, Guest Author | March 20th, 2007

You know that sense of overwhelm that comes when you have SO much on your plate? At times it feels like there are so many demands, that it’s paralyzing! It’s in these moments that using the “10%” strategy is really effective.Here’s an example. Most often when we plan our work, we think of the big [...]

 
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Billionaire Leverage Techniques: 5 Tips to Accomplish Your Big Dream

By Melanie Benson Strick | March 6th, 2007

Have you ever had a dream so big that you had no idea how to accomplish it? The dream is there, in the background of your mind, gnawing at you and clamoring for your attention.
For many busy entrepreneurs, you might start to feel like the dream is slowly dieing. With everything you [...]

 
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Why You Need To Manage Your Compulsive-Inventor

By Melanie Benson Strick | February 20th, 2007

As entrepreneurs, we all have that compelling need to create. It’s part of our genetic code; it’s what makes us willing to do what it takes to be entrepreneurs. Sometimes that compelling need to invent new things gets in the way of what makes us successful.
The other day I realized I was [...]

 
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