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Nov
09

From Chaos To Clarity

By Brenda | Blog, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Productivity, Small Business, Training

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Entrepreneurs have a high threshold for uncertainty and risks. We thrive in chaos and can navigate through a lot of confusion on our way to clarity.  We wouldn’t have our lives any other way. The challenges, the complexity, and the craziness of entrepreneurship are what oftentimes make us feel alive. But there comes a point when we need to move away from chaos and get clear, grounded, and centered. Otherwise, we find ourselves unproductive or wasting time, money, and resources (things small … [Read more...]

Jun
02

Life Lessons I Learned Post College

By Brenda | Blog, Business, Leadership, Planning, Training

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Graduation Day

My nephew graduated from college last month... Graduation Day, Gabe and his sisters. and as with all life changing events, it provoked me to reflect, take a pause and write down some thoughts on what I have learned since I graduated from college. So, here is the short version of what I shared with him at Diego's restaurant amongst immediate family.  By the way, here is the Yelp review I wrote about my experience that evening at Diegos.   These were just random thoughts on … [Read more...]

Aug
31

The Life You Live Is The Legacy You Leave

By Brenda | Blog, Business, Conscious, Entrepreneur, Green Business, Small Business

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47 Life Lessons - Business and Personal I celebrated my birthday this week and I thought I'd share with you 47 lessons I have learned in life. Some are business lessons and some are personal lessons. They all have impacted my life in a profound way: 1. What people say about you, says more about them than you. 2. When you learn to quiet your mind and manage your thoughts, you will then begin to know yourself. 3. Praise publicly. Hash out issues in private. 4. When leading or … [Read more...]

Jul
15

How To Keep Customers Coming Back

By Brenda | Blog, Customer Service, Entrepreneur, Small Business, Start-Ups

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CARE About Them I used to work in the real estate industry and for many years the Brokers held the keys to the kingdom, meaning that only THEY had access to the listings. Today, the power lies in the hands of the customer with access to mountains of information on the internet.  Yes, the business world is continuing to change at lightening speed. With information being indexed, categorized, organized, systematized, ranked, tweeted, posted, podcast, videoed, etc., it is the customer who now … [Read more...]

Jun
17

Business Lessons From A Flight Attendant

By Brenda | Blog, Business, Customer Service, Entrepreneur, Leadership

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UCLA Graduation 2010

Do You Have An Aptitude For Business? I attended my nephew's graduation ceremony from UCLA this past weekend and the businessman who gave the commencement address carried my memory back to when I was graduating from college.  He gave me much to ponder about my own personal journey towards becoming an entrepreneur. You see, my nephew has graduated with a Liberal Arts degree in History and the commencement speaker holds a degree from History too.  The point he was making is that just because … [Read more...]

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