Starting a Business? The Ten Essential Skills For Business Success

What you are doing right now has within it the seeds of your life's work translated into success in owning your own business. As you may have discovered, each time you get a new job you use many of the skills you have already developed. It is as if every job prepares you in some way for the next one.

Every skill you acquire that you love using will be important as you follow your steps towards controlling your future. You may not understand why you took a job or developed a particular talent or ability but the skills you have learned will be of value to you and enhance your self-reliance. Trust that what you are doing now is helping you gain skills that will be used in starting and building your business.

You are learning skills right now that you may use later in different ways to help you to control your future. You have many skills and talents and an amazing wealth of past experiences and knowledge. You can identify some of your skills and knowledge by looking at all the schools, workshops, and classes you have attended. Look at the books you have read, the tapes you have listened to, and the educational television programs you have watched.

When you evaluate your skills, remember all the jobs you have had, even volunteer jobs, such as helping out at your children's school or at your church, as well as all the activities you did after school and during the summer.

However, if you are considering controlling your future by starting a business, business success depends more on several skills (essential and learnable) than any particular education or experience. I have boiled it down to ten essential skills for business success:
1) leadership,
2) organization and time management,
3) selling skills,
4) information acquisition and management,
5) current technologies,
6) persuasion and negotiation,
7) judgment (making good decisions and choices),
8) financial,
9) writing,
10) and, speaking

Perhaps one of your highest skills is counseling people. You may have a knack for assisting people in finding solutions to their problems and creating new visions for themselves. You can find ways to use these skills in any job you have, and thus do your life's work more fully right now. Or, these skills may lead to some form of counseling as your full-time business. The more opportunity you have to do activities you love, the more you will make the contribution you came to make and the more abundance you will attract.


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How to Save Money and Be More Productive With Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a more valuable way of using your pc, your laptop, and your smart phone. In cloud computing, you are taking advantage of applications and storage capacities located in different parts of the country or the world.

In my view there are three ways that cloud computing is

both economical and efficient:

1. In that the applications you use are not stored on your hard drive, they can be accessed anywhere as long as you are on a computer, have internet access, and haven't forgotten your password.

2. You can save money on external disks. Although I still backup my very essential files, I do it just for peace of mind and to be able to boot up my computer in case of a crash. I do not carry the flash drives with me, nor have I bought any in years.

3. Cloud computing has eliminated the need to network your computers. With your applications being in the cloud, all you need is internet access and your password.

Cloud computing then is valuable not only for its efficiency and capacity to make you more productive, it is also economical.

There are several cloud computing apps that I have found to be extremely useful. With a Google account, you have access to all the Google apps including Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader. I also have found Dropbox and Evernote to be quite useful. Google Docs and Dropbox have similar features, but with Dropbox, you don't need a Google account.

With regards to Evernote, I consider it to be the best note taking tool available anywhere on the web. With it you can create notes for text, images, audio, and whole pages. All these notes can then be synchronized between your pc, your laptop, and your smart phone.

Also, in that you can add images as uploaded and process notes, they become searchable by any text in the images. Therefore, if you take a picture of a book you want to remember in a store, or an artist's name displayed on an art gallery wall, you have a quick and efficient way of keeping, and accessing that information. You can also choose to download the Evernote application to your pc or just use it in the cloud.

While I have not mentioned any of the Windows cloud applications such as the Windows Live Services, the use of cloud computing based on the examples I've provided means that you can strip away some of the software you have installed on your computer in favor of the cloud alternatives. Moreover, you are unshackling yourself from your pc and allowing yourself to have access to e-mail, files, pictures, and more whenever you are and have a web connecting device.


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