Being self-employed might seem like a risk to a traditionally focused perspective. Yet entrepreneurship can grant you limitless chances of opportunity for professional freedom, financial stability and personal success. Education is key when it comes to building an empire and you must be willing to learn. Learn and implement along the way. Whether you’re at the beginning of your entrepreneurship journey or a couple of years in, developing your business...
Everyone is Working to Go Nowhere Fast The anxiety our society is facing these days is hard, heavy and unavoidable, especially when one factors in how hard everyone is working to go nowhere fast. Never mind saving for a vacation, or for an emergency! Most people work to cover expenses, or worse yet, work to pay off debt, while incurring more debt because they can’t afford their day to day...
Do you have dreams that you would like to pursue but have never been able to figure out how? You Are Not Alone. It seems that in today’s fast-paced, every-second-micro-managed society everyone is facing the same challenges; time constraints;insufficient funds, and;day-to-day commitments such as family, work and social obligations. These are just a few of the obstacles most people face when trying to create a plan for a better life. ...
Give-to-Get and the Business Power of Cooperatives In my article, Working with Charities, I expand on the fact that although most people do a good deed for the simple act of having helped, if examined further these types of feel-good actions can actually benefit a business in lot of ways. Some returns are obvious, like tax deductions, but other rewards are not so obvious; like cross-promotions and marketing value. An...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId95N2teUc Well here we are my friends, the penultimate day of 2020. It's been quite the year for my team and I. I launched this blog way back in March, 2019 (which I hope you've all enjoyed reading, and will continue to enjoy for years to come), traveled overseas several times, had the opportunity to attend the Toronto International Film Festival (which was a blast), and have hopefully accomplished much in my goal to...
There were several points over the past couple of weeks where I could have posted this up, but for one reason or another it happened to fall on today, which for many of you out there is the night before Christmas (and all through the house....). I've said before that holidays are of the utmost importance, and that there is quite literally no good reason that you should not enjoy...
I've been reading a lot about the apocalypse that was supposed to happen today, and pondering whether there were people out there who were actually silly enough to go out and stockpile things to prepare for it. Since you're reading this instead of huddling in your basement trying to escape impending doom, it's pretty obvious that the world didn't meet its untimely demise, and the end of the Mayan calendar...
There's yet another old saying, that goes "never mix business and personal." While I don't one hundred percent agree with the statement, there are times when it's not necessarily in the best interests of your business to mix the two, and that's what we'll be discussing today. Under some circumstances, it can actually be a boon to your business. In others, perhaps not so much. The trick lies in telling...
Hello everyone! My name’s Shane and I’m one of David’s team members, working as a content provider for his various sites. He’s spoken about me before in previous posts, like “Cut Out The Middleman” and the first part of “The Cost of Debt.” I pitched an idea to David about doing a guest blog for today since Halloween is by far my all-time favourite holiday, and he gave me the...
The concept of the carrot and the stick is something that most people should be familiar with. The earliest recorded use of the phrase was in December 1948 in The Economist magazine. The concept is drawn from the idea of a cart driver using a carrot suspended in front of his or her horse, mule, etc. just out of reach to motivate it to constantly move towards it, while holding...