Running a business is not easy.

It requires a lot of time, hard work, and sacrifice. If you operate your own small business, you’re likely all too familiar with the never ending to do list. Maybe you’ve even given up weekends and burned the midnight oil to make sure everything gets done.

But there has to be a line.

If you push yourself too hard, both you and your business will suffer. You can’t do your best work when you’re running on fumes — and you can’t be happy and healthy when you’re working all the time. Balance is key.

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Running a business is hard. So staying positive as an entrepreneur isn’t always easy. But there are some things you can do to improve your mindset and stay positive while running a business. Here are 30 simple tips.

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In some cases, people who you automatically assume will support you, simply won’t (I can write another post about why). Some people you think don’t care, will be your biggest cheerleaders. And strangers will be both your biggest fans and your worst critics.
But I like to assume the best and that generally, people want to support us crazy entrepreneurs but don’t always know how.
So for people who have friends or just people you know who hustle every day to make their brand, product, or service known, here are 5 simple ways that you can show them you want to see them succeed.

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More than intelligence or wealth, what separates the truly successful individuals from the rest is the fact that they never give up. They never give up no matter how they started or how many times they have failed in the past. We would not be enjoying Harry Potter, Disneyland or even Windows today if the founders decided to quit early on.


Never giving up sounds so cliché, but the repetition is justified because it’s the only choice you have if you want to get ahead. To master this art, you have to form habits which will become a lifestyle.

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Taking risks is scary, whether you’re going all-in during a friendly game of poker or quitting your long-time career to pursue one of your promising business ideas. Most people tend to avoid risks when possible, because inaction is often safer than action, but most successful people will tell you they got to where they are because they were willing to take risks no one else was -- whether that was developing a product nobody else thought would work or investing a sum of money everyone else thought was crazy.

Still, taking risks is intimidating, especially for new entrepreneurs. But it’s more complicated than just “doing something that might turn out bad.” To feel more comfortable taking risks and make more informed risk-based decisions, keep these five considerations in mind.

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Overcoming the emotional hurdle to get stuff done when you’d rather sit on the couch isn’t always easy. But unless calling in sick and waking up at noon have no consequences for you, it’s often a must. Whether you’re starting a business, trying to lose weight or breaking a bad habit, you’ll learn how to motivate yourself with different techniques here:

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Sometimes it seems that for as many hours there are in the day, there are three times as many interruptions that take you away from work that needs to get done. So what can you do to get a little more clarity and get rid of those distractions? Give some of these suggestions a try.

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There’s Hebrew wisdom that declares, “Without a vision, the people perish.” It’s the same concept that is sometimes parsed, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll likely end up somewhere else.”

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.

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At times when I’ve said to myself, ‘I wish I had more balance in my life,’ I’ve noticed it means I’ve been slacking on a few key things.

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