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Written by: Rodger Blaker

The Energy of Tolerations! - Click To Read Article
The benefits we gain from removing tolerations in our life are enormous. We will stop wasting time, trying to manage situations that shouldn't be there in the first place. We find that we have more energy to devote to our quality of life. There is a greater opportunity for growth because we are not distracted or weighed down with tolerations. Our community will be upgraded and we will have more energy to spend with fulfilling people. We will also model for our family and friends what is possible for them.

The Twin Pillars of Success - Click To Read Article
Honor the fire in your belly! Trust that your passion, your dreams and your imagination know where they are going, they know better than your logical brain what you are capable of achieving.

Find a Need and Fill It - Click To Read Article
If you want to increase sales and grow your bottom line, find something your audience wants and serve them better than anyone else in town. The key to success? It's simple: Find a need and fill it.

Excellence vs. Perfection - Click To Read Article
At some point, we have to settle for "excellence" and go for it! I'm not talking about being sloppy or settling for mediocrity, but in most cases, excellence is good enough.

Where, Exactly, Are You Going? - Click To Read Article
Are you sailing in the direction you want to go? Are you deploying your assets, your time, your energy and your intelligence to create the life you truly want? If not, don't blame the conditions. Instead, challenge yourself to become a more skillful sailor.

Think Your Way to The Top! - Click To Read Article
Invest in your education, but just importantly, create opportunities to USE what you know in fresh and creative ways. Expand the boundaries and stretch the possibilities!

The Great Business Discovery of 2007 - Click To Read Article
One of the absolute BEST things any professional, business owner or manager can do is invest in seminars and conferences. The chance to get away and "see the forest for the trees" is incredibly valuable. Conferences generate new perspectives, and new ideas create vast new opportunities! Invest in yourself!

One Small Step At A Time - Click To Read Article
Take small steps, but take them every single day. Take the smallest, safest, easiest step you can, but keep moving in the direction you want to go. If you like the results simply do it again tomorrow, and the day after that, and again the day after that. To achieve great things, keep walking, one step at a time, in the direction of your goal.

Good Tools Make Success Easy - Click To Read Article
Your tools should make your life easier, not harder. They should position you as a professional and as the "obvious choice." If in doubt, ask your clients to comment on your equipment, your office and your level of service. You may be surprised by what you hear!

Your Personal Services Company - Click To Read Article
Take a look at your performance and give yourself an honest grade. If you are doing your best, congratulate yourself and honor that! But if you see a few things that could be adjusted to give you a slight "edge", take action!

A Business or a Job? - Click To Read Article
The advantage of building a business, however, is that it is as an asset. It can be sold, or franchised, or licensed to other people. The systems can often be replicated, sometimes even in other industries, and that gives a business tremendous financial leverage.

Ya Gotta Have a Plan - Click To Read Article
EVERY business must know who their best customers are. EVERY business must have a marketing plan, a budget, and an R&D team. EVERY business needs a business plan that is current and reviewed often.

Have You Backed Up Today - Click To Read Article
You may have a qualified tech support person that will install an automatic remote backup for you. But if you don’t, I recommend you contact my tech, Michael Glanton. He provides quality service and you may reach him at michael.glanton@g2web.com or by phone at 214-256-4893.

Knowing When to Say, “Next!” - Click To Read Article
Knowing your industry, and being able to "read" the intentions and buying styles of individual customers makes all the difference. It's a skill and it can be learned. If you are in business, you are in sales. Get good at it.

Who Are Your Customers - Click To Read Article
Unless you can answer these questions, the best products and services in the world will not be enough to make your business successful. Focus on the customer!

Your Best Summer Ever - Click To Read Article
As Brian Tracy has advocated for years, when you work, work flat-out. Work hard! Work smart! Work with full concentration and full attention.

Eliminate the Bottlenecks! - Click To Read Article
What are the bottlenecks that hold you back? Find them, and fix them. You can not afford to allow one small "pinch" to limit on your potential. Eliminate the bottlenecks!

Operating from Super Abundance - Click To Read Article
This is one reason highly successful entrepreneurs hire coaches and consultants. They know that coming from a place of abundance shows up in every word and every action, and ultimately creates more and greater abundance.

Why Are You In Business - Click To Read Article
Think about serving satisfied customers. If you do, innovation, production costs, marketing costs, and profits, will tend to take care of themselves in a very satisfying way.

What's In A Plan - Click To Read Article
Create and use a written business plan. It's your road-map to success.

What Will You Achieve This Year? - Click To Read Article
Take the time. Make the investment. Hire the experts. Take the initiative. Get away from the daily details to see the big picture and create the future you want.

The Value of Technology - Click To Read Article
Invest in appropriate technology and learn to use it to your advantage.

Systems for Extraordinary Success - Click To Read Article
If you are not getting the results you desire, take a close look at your systems. If you need help, consider hiring a coach. Success is no accident! It is the logical, predictable result of doing certain things in a certain way, over and over again.

Marketing Success vs. Sales Success - Click To Read Article
Know and use appropriate SALES techniques when the time comes. When a qualified prospect inquires about your goods or services, know how to close the deal, but don't expect that every MARKETING conversation will lead to immediate sales. Knowing the difference is a key to long-term financial success.

Reality Never Lies - Click To Read Article
Often, the fastest, easiest and least expensive route to adding value and improving your bottom line is with the help of a qualified consultant or coach. Thousands of entrepreneurs and business leaders have learned that an extra set of eyes and ears, another perspective, and an objective point of view can quickly make a huge difference.

Marketing Means Networking - Click To Read Article
Branding is always about YOU. Yes, branding your company name is helpful, and branding your goods and services is a nice idea. But the more people who know and appreciate you, the more business you'll do. In the end, marketing is about networking.

Just Get STARTED! - Click To Read Article
One day at a time, step by step, do what you can and repeat it until you reach the top of the mountain, until that wonderful day when your friends wake up and are amazed at how "lucky" you are!

Time, Money and Life Balance, Part 1 - Click To Read Article
Highly successful people seem to be less busy than most every one else because they arrange it that way. They join fewer clubs, make fewer promises, run fewer errands and waste less of life's most precious commodity.

Time, Money and Life-Balance, Part 2: Money! - Click To Read Article
Do yourself a favor and master the art of money. Avoid or get out of debt. Spend less than you make. Save the difference and invest over time. Treat money as an honored guest in your life, one who will quickly flee if you do not treat her well, but one who will stay and enrich your life beyond measure if you treat her with skill, care and respect.

Time, Money and Life-Balance, Part 3 Life-Balance - Click To Read Article
Happiness comes from life balance. Happiness comes from a disciplined and reasoned approach to the "big pieces" in life. If time management is the essential first step, and if managing money is a critical second step, the third step to happiness is living a balanced life.

The Joys of Repeated Failure - Click To Read Article
Get in the game. Take reasonable, creative risks. Be willing to lose or "fail". Learn to embrace unexpected and (sometimes) painful or expensive outcomes as part of the tuition for success. Unless you are willing to pay the price, there is no chance to reach the top of the mountain. Go for it!

Three-Step Dance to Success - Click To Read Article
The third step to total success is a commitment to make life better, easier, and richer for as many people as possible. I love Zig Ziglar's quote that, "You can have anything you want in life if you find a way to help enough other people get what they want in life." What a wonderful challenge!

Living Life On Your Terms - Click To Read Article
The keys to achievement, motivation and ultimate success are in your own heart. Find the goals that truly inspire, challenge and excite you, then stay up all night and work all day to achieve your destiny. Success is not something to be chased, it's something to be celebrated by living your own life, on your own terms, every day.

The Joy of Labor - Click To Read Article
This Labor Day, give thanks for the work you do, and the difference it makes. Celebrate your contribution to your community, and our world. And, if you are not doing the “perfect” job for you, pledge that by next year, you WILL be doing the right work. Life is too short to spend it doing work for which you are not suited or passionate! You owe that to yourself and to the world. We need your best stuff, your best effort, your passion and your unique genius.

Your Questions Determine Your Success - Click To Read Article
Allocate resources so your most important projects get your best efforts. Do the most important things when you are awake, rested, focused and eager. Arrange you budget so there is enough money, enough time, and enough "space". First things deserve the very best of your key resources!

Financial Fundamentals - Click To Read Article
It's very easy to go into business, and running a business is easy if you have great systems to track your finances automatically, effortlessly, and accurately. Those systems don't "cost", they truly pay off in wonderful ways. Follow the basics. There will likely come a day when you'll be delighted you did!

The BIG Pieces Go in First - Click To Read Article
As you look at your calendar and set your goals for 2009, consider these twin principles of Balance and Big Pieces. Use this simple tool to increase your success (and your joy!) in the year ahead. Put the BIG pieces in first, and give them the necessary time, energy and focus to create the balanced, satisfying life you deserve.

Opportunities in Times of Chaos - Click To Read Article
If the news and the "warnings of impending doom" are inspiring your imagination to create awful images in your head, CHANGE THAT! Stimulate your imagination to create images of what's possible, what's new and creative, fun, loving and empowering. Remember, "We become what we think about all day long." In times of storm, think about the rainbow.

Let Your Light Shine - Click To Read Article
In the Bible there is a story that warns us not to hide our light under a basket, and it applies in business as much as anywhere else. Turn the lights on! Let the world know who you are, what you can do for them, and how to contact you. In business, that is an every-single-day activity.





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