Daniel Decker

5 Ways to Increase Your Productivity with a Productivity Tune-up

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Learning how to maximize our productivity is an essential component of achieving better results. Productivity helps us work smarter, become more efficient and better enables us to produce our desired outcomes (whatever those outcomes may be).
Productivity isn’t only about cranking out more widgets or more work though… It’s also about using tools and resources to [...]

Five Myths of Being Your Own Boss (And How You Can Overcome Them)

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Millions of people wake up every day dreaming about becoming their own boss. Some are entrepreneurs who have a vision, others are just fed up with working for “the man” and feel that there must be a better way.
Perhaps you are one of those dreamers or know someone who is.
The “idea” of becoming your [...]

Shut Down the Incoming and Focus on the Outgoing

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There’s a problem that plagues a lot of us these days. It’s the barrage of the incoming.
It’s a full email inbox, inbound phone calls and voice mail, text messages, Twitter and Facebook updates, a co-worker stopping by our desk to “chat,” or any number of the incoming distractions that compete for our time each day.
The [...]

How to Achieve the Success of Others

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We all do it. We see someone else who has a level of success that we admire and we want that same success for ourselves.

“If his book can become a bestseller, mine should be too!”
“If she can get on Fox News to talk about her initiative, I should be able to get on as well!”
“If [...]

The Dangers of Looking for an Easier Way

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As we get busier and as our organizations grow we tend to look for better ways to do things. Easier and more efficient ways. While the quest is indeed a positive thing, there is a dark side we must avoid.
It’s what happens when we start to lose the very essence of what was making us [...]

3 Ways to Live Your Life on Purpose

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Most all of us have dreams, ambitions, goals or aspirations… at least of some kind. Things we want to do or become.
But sometimes life can get in the way, can’t it?
We may have intentions but the monotony of the day-to-day, the responsibilities and the busyness can leave us merely trying to survive… much less giving [...]

Why Getting Out of Your Own Way is Crucial for Success

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As an entrepreneur one of the biggest struggles I have faced is learning how to get out of my own way.
What I mean by that is learning how to let go and delegate to others.
It’s a common issue that plagues a lot of small business owners and Type A personalities. But it’s not limited to [...]

Tomorrow’s Success is Waiting

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One of the biggest dangers we face is becoming complacent in our success.
It’s easy, once we’ve set a goal and achieved it, to fall into the trap of maintaining. It’s easy to justify slacking off because, after all, we put in all the work to get to where we are. It’s easy to think [...]

When the Best Marketing in the World Won’t Help You

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There is a reality that is hard to swallow sometimes. It’s what happens when your product or service isn’t selling or taking off like you had hoped. You know that point? It’s when you feel frustrated that your efforts aren’t reaping the type of reward you want.
Maybe you’ve done a fair amount of marketing to [...]

How to Create Outstanding Videos via a Flip Style Camera

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Are you looking for a way to create nice looking video at an affordable price and with minimal hassle or tech ability? I was too and here is the solution I found…
I’m in the process of creating a few videos for various projects. Some are simple video book reviews, others are training sessions for authors [...]