By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/29/2009

Are you a business owner with a insatiable need for speed?  I don't mean driving a car type of speed, I mean "running a business" type of speed.  You know, that urge to move fast, decide fast, act fast...think later.  If you are not taking the time to slow down, think, and properly decide BEFORE you act, you unfortunately are not alone.  You my entrepreneurial friend have the dreaded condition known as the need for speed.  Be warned, if you run a business too fast and by the seat of your pants, you...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/26/2009

As a business coach, my heroes have always been the small business owners I have served during the last decade and a half.  These are the folks who put their passions, energy, and futures on the line.  They were bold enough to take risks to chart their own course in order to serve others and make a difference.  At some point, all of these entrepreneurs got overworked, overwhelmed and lost along the way and needed a business coaching process to help them get back on track.  As such, my life's work...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/22/2009

This business coaching blog is dedicated to employee management, a critical component of your business success and sanity.  As a business coach for a decade and a half, I have seen business owner after business owner struggle with hiring and developing the right people for their company.  I too have struggled in this regard.  Sadly, more mistakes are made and more money is wasted in the employee hiring, development and retention areas than just about anywhere else in a business. 

Now, in a...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/19/2009

This business coaching blog is focused on The Growth Coach, North America's fastest-growing business coaching franchise system. For those business owners and professionals thinking about getting some business coaching help, the links below are to four website pages with our newly published videos in the upper right corner.  These videos should provide you with additional information about The Growth Coach, our business coaching quarterly process (Strategic Mindset), the benefits to you of business...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/15/2009

As a business owner, what's your greatest resource that costs you nothing to use?  Your brain.  When properly utilized and focused, your brain can transform your business and life for the better...like nothing else can.  But how often do you fully engage and leverage this powerful resource?  How often do you slow down and make the time to think deeply about your business?  To think, write and plan in a quiet setting with minimal interruptions or distractions?  Probably not too often.  Odds are, you...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/12/2009

The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise system, continues to do quite well even in this challenging economy.  In fact, the slowing economy has been a huge wake-up call for small business owners to seek out business coaching assistance to help them navigate through rough waters.  As a result, our business coaches are in greater demand than ever and doing more good than ever. 

However, if you listen to the nightly news and our politicians, the economic sky is falling for...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/8/2009

Isn't it amazing every January the number of ads you see on TV, on the web, and in newspapers about weight loss, meal programs, exercise equipment, diet pills, health club memberships, diet books, etc.?  Of course, these companies are trying to capitalize on most people's New Year's Resolutions...the most common one being weight loss.  Sadly, without a proven coaching system to modify one's habits and to provide on-going accountability to keep them on track, very few resolutions ever come true...in...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/5/2009

As a business owner, are you always doing the entrepreneurial time warp?  You know, repeatedly jumping back and forth between your past and future, seldom operating in the present.  Probably so.  As a CPA and business coach for over 24 years, I have witnessed up close how small business owners are fascinated with time travel, frequently visiting their PAST and their FUTURE, but neglecting their PRESENT.

As a business coach in in the early 90's, it was initially frustrating and challenging for me to get small business owners to focus on the HERE AND NOW.  In a blink, owners would jump into their personal time-travel machines and before I knew it, they were off traveling to the past.  They would spend considerable time wallowing in their regrets, both business and personal, revisiting their old mistakes and failures, and/or wishing for the good old days.  Or, when I wasn't looking, they would move the dial in their time-travel machine and leap into the future.  There, they would spend considerable time and energy worrying about and fearing the future...fretting over things well beyond their control.  None of this time travel was productive and it wasted precious time and energy.  As a business coach, I'm not certain why owners did the time warp but I was determined to help them stop and learn to focus on TODAY.

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/1/2009

Happy New Year!  The Growth Coach organization and this business coach in particular wishes you much health, happiness, prosperity, and fulfillment in 2009.  Doesn't that sound good?  Sure it does.  However, let's be honest, all my wishing doesn't mean squat if you don't think differently and act differently in 2009.  As a business owner, your success and happiness are 100% up to you, nobody else.  As a business coach for nearly 20 years, I can promise you this... if you think the same ways and do...

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