Congratulations! You had an idea about starting a new business and you are doing it. After all, you have the experience after 30 years in the manufacturing business. Now you’re a consultant for training employees in customer relations and business is good. You’ve set up an office in your home now that the kids moved [...]
Working at Home on Schedule
I’ve been working with a couple of clients and helping them find better ways to manage their time. Both of them found new careers after being downsized from fairly large corporations. They couldn’t wait to start their business and have the freedom of working at home and not have to waste their time attending useless [...]
Giving a Presentation for Your New Business
Does the idea of speaking in front of a group of people have you reaching for the antacid? You’re not alone. The good news is that I can give you a few invaluable tips and ideas to guide you through the often nerve-wracking experience of public speaking. My first rule for talking in front of [...]
Steps to Put Your Business Online
You need a strategy to put your business on line. You can put it online without a strategy but your time, money and effort will be wasted. Below are a few of the more important steps you should put into your strategy. Search is the first step. You need to search the internet and find [...]
Content for Your Website
You are making the transition from retiring after 35 years of teaching to a new business you’ve been thinking about for 10 years. You’ve done your research, worked with the local university offering courses for start up business and established some goals. Now you are working on establishing an online presence. You’ve spoken to several [...]
Self Discipline Creates Successful Changes
The choice is yours: self discipline or regret. Which will cause you more pain? Disciplined effort generally results in multiple rewards. That seems to be one of life’s guidelines. It’s not a new law or one I invented. How well you sow is how well you will reap is one saying that’s has been around [...]
Positive Thinking Simplifies Change
Keep in mind that you’re a product of your environment. One conclusion then is for you to choose an environment that enhances your development toward your objective. Think about the past 20 years in terms of your environment. What are the things around you that you know for sure are helping you toward your success? [...]
Building a Consulting Business
A friend of mine is planning to retire from the business of private fundraising for profits and nonprofits. She loved being the director of development for an independent K – 12 elementary school in the suburbs and she would like to go into the same business. Barb knows this business every which way but she [...]
Second Career Answers at a Wedding
She approached me like we were best friends telling me about her latest project and recent economic perspectives. She was about to retire from her job as the head of a human relations department for a national accounting firm. “I think I could start an online business giving readers or listeners the benefit of all [...]
Encore Careers Are a Reality
Millions of Americans have been involved in encore careers for decades. Being involved in an encore career is not new. The major piece of news is that the numbers of people, especially those between 44 to 70 years old , is expanding. I haven’t seen the latest data but I suspect the upper age guideline [...]
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