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Planning for Success: EMyth's 40th Anniversary and Annual Goals
This is the season for planning for the new year and we’ve been talking a lot about it. If you haven’t started yet, it’s not too late to create your Annual Plan. We have a six step process to get you there. If you really want your business to look, act, feel and perform differently a year from now (Is there anyone...
What I discovered on my quest for work-life balance
I’m in the upstairs bathroom writing notes on my iPhone when it strikes me—the apparent irony of me sketching out notes for a blog post about work-life balance while in the middle of giving my daughters a bath. I left work hours ago but had hardly left my work behind me. And in that moment I felt so close to the m...
Not an inspirational leader? Think again.
How do you inspire your people? You can feel they need something. You see them come into work with tired eyes and watch them half-listen during meetings. You know it’s on you to uplift them or bring them more meaning, something to get their head above water and remember why they took a job with your company in the...
Making Strategic Work Simple: A Practical Guide for Small Businesses
Have you ever played that game where you repeat a particular word over, and over, and over until suddenly, it just doesn’t sound right anymore? At a certain point, it stops making sense. The phenomenon is called semantic satiation and it happens in business all the time! We have a tendency to overuse terms until, ...
How to transition from freelancer to business owner
In 2009, almost 560,000 new businesses were started every month. Interestingly, however, a large number of these were classified as “non-employer” businesses – in other words, sole operators with no employees. Many consider these individuals to be freelancers as opposed to “business owners” although the distinctio...
Business planning for bootstrappers
Imagine for a moment a completely debt-free business. No loans to payback. No investors to answer to. Imagine a completely self-sustaining business. A business funded purely by the cash flow your business produces.
EMyth answers your questions
This week we're dipping into the Ask EMyth mailbag to have an EMyth Business Coach answer a few of your questions. Thanks to everybody who submitted questions, and keep them coming. We love to hear from you.
How to overcome business frustrations
We define business frustrations as a series of specific recurring events in your business over which you feel you have little or no control.
Exit your company the right way
The first step in any successful endeavor is defining what a win will look like once the project is complete. When an artist begins a painting, he typically has a vision in his mind of what the painting will look like when it is finished. When a football team takes the field, they know the definition of success—a ...