Staying Positive

Each and every day, as women in business, we are faced with opportunities to grow our business! There is so much opportunity ‘out there’ – and it’s all there for the taking. Often, I have found, we get in our own way when it comes to growing our...

As women entrepreneurs, one of the things we do all the time is to pass through our successes very quickly! Well, I’m here to tell you that this habit, this practice, must stop. It must stop here and it must stop now. Let me tell you why.

When you hear that statement, whose name comes to mind? It’s a famous “Donald-Trump-ism” and I use it a lot! I was listening, with great interest, last week (while at the incredible Trump International Beach Resort in Miami) to the words and...

He's rich. He's handsome. He's young. He's got it all. He also had three years of hard luck. Can you imagine setting a world record for not accomplishing something? Well Toronto Blue Jay's Pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes almost did. He had one more chance and blew it... Now I get that he probably 'has it all'. From the outside his life looks a little cushy. But as a professional baseball player with a 28 game losing streak, it wasn't. Until now. Talk about sliding into home plate for a win in the 11th inning.

Imagine that you are talking to a potential client and they say "no", they don't want your service. How does that make you feel? First off, let's be clear that a "no" is just a two-letter word consisting of "n" and "o".