How are you doing on your review and planning time for 2010? Our newsletters of October 30 and November 5 laid out an outline on how to approach the task. (You can view the newsletters online here - Part 1, October 30 and Part 2, November 5, or drop us an email and we'll send them to you)

Charles Baudelaire, a poet said, "No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare."

One reason we don't start a task is because we don't want

I've been hearing good comments about the results some of our coaching clients are getting from their posts on Angie's list. With a little thought and effort, you can get positive and free publicity on Angie's list. It starts, of course, with a little effort on your part to learn how to do it.

Be sure that your ratio of good posts is at least 10 and preferably 12 to any one bad post that may show up.

This is not rocket science, gang. All it takes is a little effort,

Sure unemployment is at a staggering 10.2% in the US and while this seems like a horrifically high number (and it is), there are in fact 89.8% (give or take) of the people in this country that have jobs and while they feel sorry for the pour souls trying to live on unemployment checks, they aren't doing too bad at all.

I just read a CNN.com article about how after a tough year in 2008, banker bonuses will be up 40% in 2009. Thank God! Of course this includes banks that received tax-payer

Remember when a pro sports stadium would only cost about $500 million or so to build? Ahhh, they were the good old days of seven or eight years ago. Now, we're putting up ballparks reaching dollar values well above $1 billion. The new Yankee stadium which opened for business this spring complete with a martini bar and steakhouse is the second most expensive sports arena ever built at $1.5 billion, next to London's Wembley Stadium which wasn't very much more.

While the 2009 World Series

"Last year, we were geared up for $8 million in sales, and now it looks like we will be lucky to do $4 million", is what I heard last week from a long term client who's been very successful at residential remodeling. We agreed suffering is an opportunity to learn compassion, and I know we've all been learning a lot of compassion lately, right?

If your sales have plummeted, take a look at your general liability policy. It was probably written with projected sales or payroll values