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  • CHATTY

    As a chatterbox who could and regularly does talk the hind legs off a donkey, this acronym really struck a chord with me. How chatty are you in business? C Cool. Just how cool are you? You can take this up any way you want. You can be trendy, hip and with it in business,…

    December 6, 2010
  • FINANCE

    The acryonm for this post: finance. F Finance that is the lifeblood of any business. We go into business to increase our share of it. We interact with other businesses using it as a means to being paid. We use it to pay our staff and any sub-contractors we hire. We use projections to get…

    November 29, 2010
  • MENTOR

    Another acroynm, this time: mentor M All businesses need mentors. Whether their owners are prepared to admit to it or not is a different matter. I’ve come across people who are determined to do it themselves and shun any form of advice given to them. We all need someone that we can turn to for…

    November 19, 2010
  • BUSINESS

    This post’s acronym is: business B Build your business from the ground up. Put the proper structures in place. Unfortunately too many people don’t do this. Some take short cuts and discover along the way that they go through an unnecessary steep learning curve before they start to correct the mistakes that they have made.…

    November 7, 2010
  • TRAINING

    I’m concentrating on acronyms and using them for business. Training is the first of them. T Training is something that every business owner could do with investing in at least once every year. It doesn’t necessarily need to be an expensive training, in fact spending a lot more than is necessary is a complete waste…

    October 23, 2010
  • The Eyes Have It!

    I read something recently that said if a person looked up and to the left then they were lying. It is something that my elder daughter believed for a long time. It was also an accusation she liked to fire at me during her teenage years – the troublesome ones at least. What changed her…

    October 5, 2010
  • A Way With Words

    Are you a people pleaser? Do you go out of your way to be nice to everybody in the hope that they will like you? Does it work for you? Or are you so busy pleasing everybody that you’ve no time to notice whether they do or not? Do you run your business the same…

    September 14, 2010
  • How To Get Off The Misery-Go-Round.

    Misery loves company, it is a way for it to validate itself. Most of the time, you will find that if you try to talk to someone about your low self-esteem, lack of self confidence or miserable situation, they will simply commiserate or empathise with you, citing their own situation as an example, rather than…

    September 13, 2010
  • Peeling The Onion – To Eat The Peach!

    So often when we have a problem we consider one issue and believe that if the issue was resolved the problem would disappear. When we do resolve the issue and the problem persists we start to wonder why we still have a problem. Encouraging Excellence was set up to help people deal with such problems.…

    September 8, 2010
  • Mindfulness in Everyday Tasks: 5 Ways Chores Can Make You Happier

    by Lori Deschene “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh Last night I did something I rarely do. Drum roll please! Last night I cooked. OK, to be fair, I more prepped than cooked. But my willingness to participate in this domestic ritual with my boyfriend at the helm was certainly not the norm.…

    September 5, 2010
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