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Take the Two Week Perspective

By Becky McCray

The Two Week Perspective is a different way to view your schedule. I use Google Calendar. I like the weekly view, but when you’re on Thursday or Friday, mostly you see the past. So I changed to a Two Week view, and made that the default. Now I see more of what’s coming up. I’ve […]

October 13, 2008 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, planning, tools Tagged With: review

Get Bounce!

By Becky McCray

One of the perks of blogging has been getting sent books to review. And this time, it’s one I was excited to read, Bounce! by Barry J. Moltz. I read Bounce! while on safari in Namibia. Your attitude toward failure is going to determine a great deal of your success. Moltz has ten building bands […]

September 23, 2008 Filed Under: failure, success Tagged With: review

Overcoming powerful failures

By Becky McCray

My plan to redefine failure has a new partner: fellow Oklahoman D. Scott Cooksey, author of Powerful People Overcome Powerful Failures, Your Daily Guide to Becoming Powerfully Successful. Cooksey isn’t shy about owning up to his own failures. We had a great conversation about responding to failure. He gets it. That’s why he wrote such […]

September 15, 2008 Filed Under: failure, success Tagged With: review

Tool: SIMPLE accounting from GoBootstrap

By Becky McCray

Computerized accounting is best when it’s simple, so I was pleased to get this short email from Kevin Reeth: I was reading your blog post today and thought you might be interested in a new web site (http://gobootstrap.com)that offers really simple online bookkeeping for businesses that just don’t get or want to learn accounting (which […]

July 15, 2008 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, finance, tools Tagged With: review

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