The rags to riches stories are more than a romantic fairytale love story. Many business owners have stories to share of roughing through hard times, catching a break, and boom, they made it to the success highway of life. The stories never stop there as happily ever after is elusive, and requires consistent work to remain relevant.
Business and trade are continuous. This is what must take place for the growth, and sustainable survival of communities. There are many ways to achieve an objective, and work is key to all developmental initiatives.
Thinking commercially is applying how business is conducted in an industry, and identifying what needs to be done to convert products/ service offering into a…
My life lessons started with experiences. Academics came along the way and only a priority from my early thirties, over twenty years ago. Everything my mind could conceive, dream and create I actioned. Learning how to do anything was a series of experiences on what did not work, why, and how to get better. Knowledge was accessed through reading, and inquisitive questioning –…
In 2022 getting results and getting your business means doing things differently or tweaking what you know for improved results! Taking chances means doing something where the outcome is uncertain and the rewards can be just what is needed. Every time you step into an action be aware of the potential outcomes and what it means to the…
Working for yourself takes guts and a lot of perseverance. Entrepreneurship is not for the ‘faint of heart’. Cold sweats with endless nights of ‘what to do next’ was a past I remember clearly, and there was no one to share my concerns with. Persevering through uncertainty and doubt was hard – yet the growth experienced through struggles were more valuable than anything from my…
Take time to celebrate your wins. In every tough week there is something to celebrate. Be grateful for the small wins as they help keep you going towards your ‘big success’.
Life in business as employee or business owner or unemployed is still life when you get home. The way you show appreciation for your efforts can manifest in how you feel about yourself.
Value is the regard, importance, worth, usefulness, esteem one considers a person or thing. Value is also what sets the bar for consumer decision making. If something is of value to the consumer, and they have access to the resources to pay for it, the sale commitment is achieved.
Get to the point – what is the value you can give, with your goods and services?…
The past six weeks have been different. My goals are the same and therefore when challenges arise, my focus gets heightened. Quite a few things happened, disrupting a schedule which I’ve grown accustomed and comfortable with. Change is always taking place and for entrepreneur,…
Rise early, and end your day after the sun sets. Get 6-8 hours sleep if you can, as often as you can. Your body needs the power only rest can give. Discovered this many years ago when I thought it was okay to exist on less sleep. Eventually it catches up with you, and shows in your attitude and progress.
Entrepreneurs need to establish good habits as soon as possible. Its easy…
Many years ago I worked with a young professional who insisted on being kind daily. This was intentional and involved even the simplest of tasks. Observing her decisions, it was clear when there was a struggle between what she wanted to do and the right thing to do – most times she leaned on what felt comfortable with her beliefs without compromising the best interests of the…
My most recent blog challenge for my Discord Group was the question of how your life and experiences have influenced you as a writer. I think that for a lot of people, this will bring up good memories and thoughts… but for just as many people, it’s going to bring up some hurt and uncomfortable situations.
And that’s actually okay. I think that it’s important for us to realize that the bad…
Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened
“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“
Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style
UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
