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Coping with Skeptics

I don’t know about you, but I have a healthy dose of skepticism as part of my personality–especially when it comes to parting with my hard-earned money and making purchases. I suppose I am what could be called a cautious and skeptical consumer. In our home businesses, many of us may have more than our fair share of skeptical consumers and it can take some time and care to learn how to deal with them. Try not to covet a negative opinion of skeptics. If you accept that many customers and clients are going to come at things from a … Continue reading →

Is Skepticism Getting in the Way?

I think that aging and skepticism seem to go hand in hand. After all, how can we really absorb all of life’s twists, turns, and lessons without developing a bit of a hard outer shell or skepticism? As single parents, we may be carrying around MORE than our fair share of skepticism and while a little bit can be healthy—too much can keep us from moving forward… Skepticism: doubt, uncertainty, and disbelief. Perhaps we do not exactly expect BAD things to happen, but we are skeptical that good, lovely, wonderful and delightful things will. We may be skeptical that we … Continue reading →

Figuring Out Why Something Failed

It can be very tempting to just walk away from a failed project in our business operations. We may be aggravated, embarrassed or frustrated and just want to forget that we ever did whatever went wrong. But, there is a great deal that can be learned from going over our failures and figuring out exactly what went wrong, and why… It is actually a good idea to do a “post mortem” for failures in our home business–look over the details and try to figure out if it was something we could have controlled, a matter of the economy or marketing, … Continue reading →