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"Kind
words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa
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Be
yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There
is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the
inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you
are great, not what you were never made for.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Always
be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a
second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
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Look
for a lovely thing and you will find it.
- Sara Teasdale
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“Just
the Road Map alone was worth the price of attending.”
-Gary
Hill, Leo Hamel & Co
“We
saw measurable improvements in one month."
-James F. Sunderland Jr.,
James and Sons
"It was fun and interesting. I never knew numbers
could be this fun."
-Ray Bleser, Northeastern Fine Jewelry.
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In
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- Article:
Bringing Stewardship to Your Role as a Business Owner
- Coach's
Corner:
The
Top 10 Ways To Endorse Your Worst Weakness
- December Tip of the
Month
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 Bringing
Stewardship to Your Role as a Business Owner
Our
lead article this month features an interview on
stewardship with Molly Gordon, President of
Shaboom Inc. Molly is a Master Certified Coach
who specializes in helping individuals and
organizations navigate the seas of complex
change. Molly is also the creator of Authentic
Promotion, a course in transformational
marketing.
Laurie:
In your recent book, Authentic Promotion:
Grow Your Business, Feed Your Soul, you
challenge the reader to become a steward of
their business. What does being a steward mean?
What's the difference between being an owner
of a business versus being its steward?
Molly:
At the beginning of the chapter on stewardship,
I write: "Being a steward means that you
will regard your business as something separate
from yourself rather than identical with your
personal and even your professional
identity." In addition, being a steward
means continued...
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 Coach's
Corner by Laurie Owen
The
Top 10 Ways To Endorse Your Worst Weakness
This
piece was written by the late Thomas Leonard,
author, coach, and founder of two schools for
coaches: Coach U and Coachville. For more
information about Leonard, visit http://coachville.com/tl/thomasleonard/.
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The
human tendency is to either ignore,
hide, deny, compensate for or strengthen
our weaknesses. After all, they ARE
weaknesses, right? And weaknesses aren't
GOOD. Well, until now. The following Top
10 List makes the case for getting to
love and honor your worst weaknesses
instead of trying to improve them. continued...
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December
Tip of
the Month
Do
you always find yourself in a flail come January
to get your 1099’s out in time for the
month-end deadline? Form 1099-Misc is what you
use to report miscellaneous payments in the
prior year to non-employees such as independent
contractors, consultants, web designers,
accountants, lawyers and others. You can avoid
this last minute scramble by setting up a system
early in the year to assemble a list of
recipients, verify whether they’re a
corporation, and obtain their taxpayer ID
information. Ideally, you’d want to collect
all this information at the time you engage
their services. Have your bookkeeper set this up
now and it will save you a lot of time at the
end of next year.
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Jewelers:
2006 Profit Mastery
Workshops & Plus Days Dates are Finalized:
Ready
to go from surviving to thriving? Make plans now
to attend one of our 2006 Profit Mastery
Workshops and Plus Day programs.
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Dates
and locations:
April 18-19 Newark, May 2-3 Chicago,
June 28-29 Seattle |
During
the workshop, you gain skills in analyzing a
case study company's performance. During the
Plus Day, with the assistance of skilled BRS
coaches, you put your new-found skills to use on
your own company. Does it work? You bet! How do
we know? Because our attendees tell us they make
and keep more money in their companies. Each
workshop comes with the BRS exclusive “365
day-You'd better get results or we'll double
your money-back guarantee.”
For
more information, including brochure and
description, visit http://www.brs-seattle.com/jewelers-workshop.html,
or call Laurie or Julie at 800.488.3520.
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Have
the right stuff to be a Performance Group
member?
Interested
in joining a Performance Group? Visit our website
and take a quick assessment to see if you're
ready. Then call us at 800.488.3520 for a
one-on-one no obligation consultation.
Pharmacy Owners:
Look
for the 2006 schedule coming soon! Register early
as space will be limited!
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Profit Mastery
Workshops for
Business Owners
Over 97% of the people who attend our workshops say they've
substantially increased their understanding of the health, strengths and
weaknesses of their companies. Change the way you manage your
business, increase your cash flow, and find profits you never knew
existed. This link (Seminar
Schedule) is
for general sessions. We will post the respective
schedules for Pharmacy Owners and Jewelers in the near
future.
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