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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.  ~Don Marquis
 
Here are Three Top Tips from Fran Piekarski, President of Remedease to help you overcome procrastination.
1. Forget about being perfect and 100% sure.        
The paralyzed perfectionist waits until he/she gathers enough information to be sure they can accomplish a task perfectly. Since we can never be 100% sure or 100% perfect: preprare, proceed and adjust [...]

I’ve watched in amazement as my youngest keeps growing into achievement. One of her secrets is weightlessness. She’s a newlywed, they have a dog and an apartment in Manhattan. In the fall she will enter a Masters program at Penn. He will stay in their apartment and possibly get a roommate. She will rent a little space, [...]

Imagine juggling five balls in the air while running through a plate of spaghetti - then meet people who have done it well - and you’ve got the entrepreneurial journey.
Tonight, with an expert panel and a room full of seasoned and new entrepreneurs,  we will be talking about navigating business chaos and making strategic choices [...]

Until recently I was a hardcore how-to reader, spending time inhaling nonfiction.  Why waste time on made-up stories when how-to do everything is indexed neatly in the library?  How-to books make you smarter. They break things into steps even a monkey can do! They strip away narrative and serve up facts gathered from lifetimes of [...]

After the blush and expense of getting your small business website up - you may have noticed THAT IT’S ALREADY TIME TO EVOLVE - DANG IT!
Transforming your company website from an online brochure to a customer engagement tool is the next vista of the journey.
Luckily we have incredibly smart, skilled people among us [...]

I have started two companies - one backwards and the other with planning.  The one I knew nothing about was much easier than the one I thought I knew something about.  Here are both formulas for your reference.
Company 1
Epiphany + no clue + limited skills + first client falls in lap x ignorance and [...]

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I can see not wanting to keep meeting overhead - but lowering overhead to meet the future.
I can see my current business tools are not sharp enough and that sharpening them means finding new ones.
I can see that the power and depth of my relationships are as meaningful yesterday as [...]

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If falling in love with the people with whom you work is a crime, I want to be guilty.  I’m an unashamed fan of work well done, inspired leaders and motivated people.  Awe, to me, does not go with shock, it belongs with words like brilliance, trust, accomplishment and courage.
Love and Profit, written [...]

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Before it all vanished, I was raised in a beautiful house with a rose garden that stretched across the backyard. I loved my friends, the times, my dog — and life had magically given me the best and the worst - from the Prom King boyfriend to the Adams Family roots [...]