Business Owner Resources

By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/28/2009

Losing weight should be easy...right?  After all, one simply needs to eat less calories and exercise more.  What is complicated about that basic information?  Nothing!  Then it should be fairly easy and straightforward to get lean and stay that way.  Wrong!  Nearly all of us, out of first-hand experience, know that it's not that easy to lose weight and then maintain our ideal weight.  After all, estimates show that over 70% of Americans are overweight.  Why?

Weight challenges can't be due mainly...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/21/2009

Recently, we had prospective franchise owners visit The Growth Coach headquarters on one of our Discovery Days to meet the executives, confirm their understanding of our business coaching model, and take the final step to join our ever-growing business coaching franchise system.  As the owner and founder of The Growth Coach, I meet with every prospective business coach for an hour or so to make sure they fully understand our business, the industry, our competitive strengths, and also fully appreciate...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/14/2009

Old Spice Deodorant has been advertising their new product line called Swagger. The commercials feature celebrities (athletes and musicians) before and after they discovered Swagger. Before they started using this deodorant, they were shown to be nerdy, meek, clumsy, and lacking confidence.  After using Swagger, they became the confident, brash, successful and popular superstars we all now know and recognize.  Pretty funny ads. While no deodorant (or any product) can give you supreme confidence...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/7/2009

One quality that sets entrepreneurs apart from others and contributes to their success is that they don't give up.  They are fighters, not quitters.  They don't give up, give in, quit, surrender, or yield.  However, it's that same stubbornness, persistence and perseverance that can get them into trouble...feeling overworked, overwhelmed and like prisoners to their business.  They simply don't know when to give up and let go...especially of certain tasks and roles.

How does that happen?  It's...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 4/30/2009

Very often, business coaching is about helping business owners and professionals get through tough slumps, ruts, setbacks, and disappointments.  At The Growth Coach, our business coaches help entrepreneurs to get back on track, adopt more effective mindsets, regain their confidence and make recoveries...even achieve a certain level of redemption.  I just never knew that I would be doing the same for my own boy.

Recently, I coached my 10-year old boy (Murph) out of a significant hitting slump...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 4/23/2009

As the owner of The Growth Coach, a business coaching franchise system, I'm always trying to feed my mind and spirit with positive and valuable information.  After all, if you don't keep yourself positive, productive and motivated, who will? Additionally, I'm always on the lookout for profitable information to share with my business coaches, their clients, and the readers of this business coaching blog. 

Case in point.  I recently discovered...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 4/16/2009

This Growth Coach business coaching blog deals with a recent family vacation, pelicans, and business coaching lessons.  You see, my family and I took a very relaxing and memorable Easter vacation to Captiva Island in Florida.  We just returned.  Luckily, we planned for and paid for the vacation nearly a year ago and it provided a timely break from our dreary and cold Cincinnati winter and spring.  We had wonderful family time with no agendas, no schedule, and no hustle and bustle.  Just lots of good...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 4/9/2009

As the President and Founder of The Growth Coach, a business coaching franchise system, one of my absolute joys is to see my franchise owners serve others, succeed, and love what they do.  Knowing that our business coaches are helping thousands of small business owners each and every year throughout North America is highly gratifying and makes all the hard work, stress, worry, and risks worthwhile.  As well, these same business coaches continually help to feed my passion and soul, expand my vision...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 4/2/2009

My 10-year old son loves going to the movies.  To be fair, he also loves the exorbitantly priced popcorn and sodas.  Today, he got very excited when he saw the ad for the new DreamWorks movie "Monsters vs Aliens".  Animation is right up his alley.  But he really isn't that particular and looks for any excuse to go the movies with his parents, grandparents, or friends...about a dozen times a year.

Today, when I asked him why he loves going to the movies, he replied, "It just makes me happy." ...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/30/2009

Every year spring faithfully arrives.  It brings with it rain and rising temperatures, spring training for professional baseball, NCAA basketball March madness, and kids getting off of school.  And best of all, we get to say goodbye to winter. 

Also, the new season brings with it talk about spring cleaning.  I never really understood that concept.  This year, however, I think that's exactly what I did.  It was more spring sorting than cleaning.  I'm not sure why, but I got inspiration to finally...

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