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Interviewed on The Shut Up Show with Berni Xiong and Phil Gerbyshak

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This video interview was pure joy for me. It was a veritable love fest talking with my dear friend and client Phil Gerbyshak, and the fabulous Berni Xiong. Phil and Berni are two professionals I greatly admire.

The Shut Up Show is for entrepreneurs (or intrapreneurs) who are trying to do big things and need to get past fear and negative self talk. Basically, this show will help you to tell those unhelpful voices inside your head to (wait for it) shut up!

Nobody likes to admit the stupid things they have done in their business, but it’s my – and their – hope that we can all learn and grow from other people’s mistakes.

So I hope you will check out Catherine Morgan Helps Us Get from Point A to Point B – Episode 20. The show notes Berni put together are hilarious! And the video interview was a blast.  

From CarolRoth.com – What Tango Dancing Taught Me About Small Business

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On Valentine’s Day I wrote a post that was, in a sense, a love note to my business.

When I thought about it, I actually have taken a lot of the lessons I learned from tango and used them in my business.

Please enjoy What Tango Dancing Taught Me About Small Business.

From CarolRoth.com – What Tango Dancing Taught Me About Small Business

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My latest post on Carol Roth’s blog is a whimsical one in which I was able to share my love of both dancing tango and running a small business.

I really have learned a lot of lessons from tango that have helped me manage my business. I think you will enjoy What Tango Dancing Taught Me About Small Business.

We posted this on Valentine’s Day and several people pointed out that many of the lessons carry over nicely to relationships.  Continue reading →

Accountability is King: Why Group Coaching Works

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Finding someone or some group to hold you accountable might be the best thing you can do for yourself. It is too easy to believe your own excuses for not getting something done. It is too easy for life to get in the way of you achieving your goals.

In the Best Year Ever! teleclass series we were all in different businesses and yet the issues we were facing were the same. We were able to learn from and support each other.

Making a decision and committing to actions to a group does dramatically increase the odds that you will actually do what you said you were going to do. Here is one example:

First day of my commitment for Best Year Ever was Wednesday, Jan. 17th. I did my 90 minutes of job-hunting, including finishing the cover letter to <company> (that had begun in draft form more then 10 days earlier, and lay dormant) and CV and sent off (among other tasks). Friday afternoon Jan 19th, the office manager called and booked me for a phone screen for a Community Manager position. It took ONE day to get active, and THREE days to get results… the first of many, I hope.

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Evaluating Opportunities: What’s Your Lens?

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We all have choices to make. How do we know if we need or want to do one thing or another? How do we objectively evaluate opportunities so that we make the right next choice – the one that we don’t second guess because we made the best decision we could at the time?

One way to do it is to find your lens. This is something that I help clients do all the time, and I am ruthless in coaching them to consistently use their lens to evaluate all opportunities.

Let me give you two examples. Continue reading →