Business Owner Resources

By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/11/2010

This Growth Coach business coaching blog focuses on the common feeling that stops most business owners and entrepreneurs in their tracks.  The emotion that prevents most professionals from seizing greater success and personal fulfillment.  The mental state that derails most small business owners from making necessary changes.  What's that prevalent feeling, emotion and mental state that often sabotages a better business and life?  It's called being OVERWHELMED.  The feeling of being overwhelmed is...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/4/2010

This brief Growth Coach blog will focus on a few practical strategies any business owner or entrepreneur can use to help re-gain control of their day, tackle critical priorities, and avoid those low-value tasks screaming for their attention.  

Forget about time management and instead focus on priority management.  Make sure that you focus on and finish the vital few tasks every day and NOT the trivial many.  Priority management need not be complicated.  It comes down to a simple formula...identify...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 2/25/2010

As your virtual business coach, let me ask you a simple question: "As a business owner, who or what is holding you back from greater success, wealth, and happiness?  Please be brutally honest and courageous enough to write down at least 5 things, people or conditions that could be holding you back from greater professional and personal success. 

Got your top 5 reasons?  Good.  Now, look carefully at your answers.  What's really holding you and your business back?  Any revelations?  Were most...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 2/18/2010

As a business coach and leader of The Growth Coach, I am always reading, listening to CDs, and searching for strategies to help our business coaches and small business clients become more effective and satisfied as business owners.  That is what we do at The Growth Coach.  I just came across one of my favorite quotes once again.  It's from Earl Nightingale, the father of personal development.  He said, "You become what you think about."  Let's repeat that.  You become what you think about.  If that's...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 2/11/2010

Wealthy entrepreneurs and other successful professionals have a key trait in common...they get comfortable with being uncomfortable.  In spite of fear, discomfort, doubt and uncertainties, they still take action. They don’t let such uncomfortable feelings derail them. They dare to leave their comfort zone and take ACTION on a consistent basis.  Do you?

Working with thousands of small business clients each and every year, The Growth Coach system has observed first-hand that smart entrepreneurs...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 2/4/2010

Selling is an essential skill for higher levels of success and wealth in your personal and professional life.  To advance as an owner, leader, manager, or professional, at a minimum, you have to be knowledgeable and competent in this critical communication skill.  Let's rate your skill level. 

On a scale of 1-10 (10=excellent), how would you rate your overall selling skills?  How would you rate your selling confidence?  Your level of comfort?  If you are at 7 or below in any of those ratings,...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/28/2010

This Growth Coach business coaching blog is about the value of action over inaction, movement over meditation.  As an entrepreneur, just about anything is better for you than inaction.  That's right, even imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.  Inaction teaches you nothing.  On the other hand, action reveals all the real-world feedback and lessons you need to make adjustments to be more successful. 

After 25 years of helping small business owners (7 years as a CPA and 18 years as a business coach), I have seen first-hand that successful and wealthy entrepreneurs don’t wait for conditions to be “perfect”.  When they smell an opportunity that makes sense, they take action.  They don't wait to have 100% of the facts and answers.  They don't worry about having incomplete information.  They don’t ponder, over-analyze and procrastinate. In fact, they have a bias for action...even if it's imperfect action.  They get moving!  Do you?

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/21/2010

Are you a "know-it-all" or "learn-it-all" business owner?  This simple distinction in mindsets will significantly predict your future as much as anything. The former mindset will yield stagnation, the later will bring you greater success, wealth, and fulfillment.

As a business coach for nearly 20 years, I can tell you with the utmost confidence that owners who have a "growth mindset" significantly outperform those who have a "status quo mindset".  Which one do you want to be?

The great...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/14/2010

This Growth Coach business coaching blog is dedicated to the "lessons from the recession."  Posted below is a current News Release containing the actual results from a recent Growth Coach 'Business Barometer' Survey on how small business owners have changed the way they think about and operate their companies as a result of the recession.  Our certified business coaches reported on the actual post-recession behavior modifications they observed within their small-business client base.  As such, these...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 1/7/2010

I hope it's not too late for one last Happy New Year greeting!  This one is quite different, however...it comes with much tough-love business coaching.  Here it goes.  The Growth Coach organization and this business coach in particular wishes you much health, happiness, prosperity, and fulfillment in 2010.  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 2010. 

As a business owner, your...

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