By Seneca | Working Smarter
When most people start a business on the side of their regular job, the idea is to build it up enough to be able to make ends meet on the business income and then quit. Freedom is the objective, but when quit day comes, are you actually going to be free, or transitioning into more […]
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By Seneca | Strategy , Working Smarter
Day jobs… Amiright? They cut into the time you could be using to build your own dream, to do the things you know you’re called to, to make a bigger difference. Instead of the promised land you’re back there baking bricks for Pharoah. Or so it seems…. On one hand it’s easy to go “Yeah! I’ll […]
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By Seneca | Working Smarter
The vast majority of people do things the total opposite of what I’m about to suggest here. They think up an idea, decide to take the risk, spend a good bit of time, money and energy getting all their ducks in a row until finally one brave day in the future, they open for business. […]
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By Seneca | Working Smarter
Ever feel like you’re going and doing as much as you can as fast as you can and it’s never enough? It’s especially easy in the world of online marketing, where they tell us you have to be everywhere on social media, your blog has to be bigger, better, longer, more epic than the last […]
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By Seneca | Working Smarter
I’m sure if you’ve looked into internet marketing at all, you’ve no doubt been sucked into the allure of free marketing via social media, blogging, writing newsletters, Periscoping, doing your own SEO work and on and on and on. There is an urgency to be everywhere and doing everything and all these tried and tested […]
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By Seneca | Working Smarter
I’m taking a week off, so no new blog this week. Instead I’m resurrecting this oldie but goodie. I hope you find your proper rhythm of work and rest for the new year! I have had a sense that I cannot go into 2015 in the state that I’m in. (The tired, pressured state.)I had […]
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By Seneca | Strategy , Working Smarter
This is the counterintuitive way to get it all done successfully. Start one business at a time, master one technique at a time before moving on. The temptation is to start little fires and work to keep them all stoked rather than building something to the point where it’s self-sustaining and that a lot of […]
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By Seneca | Prophetic , Tips and Tricks , Working Smarter
Since we are prophetic business people, we have a unique challenge. We have to be efficient about switching brain hemispheres, so we can look objectively at facts and data but also hear the Spirit about strategy. Our society, upbringing and educational system all push our natural tendencies toward left brain dominance. I believe if we […]
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By Seneca | Psychology of Success , Working Smarter
This is one of the most insidious methods of self-sabotage because you think you’re being productive, rather than the type of procrastination where you are an obvious lazy bum. It’s an illusion. It can be performance mentality. “Look busy, the boss is here” even if the boss is only you.
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