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Easy Business Mindfulness Exercise: Reflect, Refocus and Thrive!

Try our quick Business Mindfulness Exercise to celebrate wins, learn from the past, evaluate customer satisfaction, and Reconnect with your ‘WHY’. Set year-end goals and make it happen. Take a moment to reflect and progress. Need help with your 'WHY'? Check out our resource!

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Big Picture Annual Planner!

Are you ready to do big things with your business this year? Make it happen! We’ve created a free downloadable annual planner that you can use to put your goals down on paper and turn them into reality. Whether or not you’ve set your goals for the year already, this tool will help you put some structure around your thoughts and help you make a successful year. Download it now!

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How To Workshop Your Mission and Vision

Having a compelling mission and vision to work towards and inspire your employees and customers can be incredibly powerful in keeping you going and growing that bottom line. Whether you’re a growing team or a company of one, today, we’re sharing how you can workshop your own with our four-step process.

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Building a company with purpose

“What’s your purpose? What impact do you want to make?” If you’re a cynic, these questions will probably put a skeptical smile on your face - and we understand why. For many companies, mission statements are just part of an arbitrary checklist devoid of any real meaning. At The EMMS, we define a company’s mission as an operational tool with far reaching consequences, including boosting motivation, enhancing team moral, connecting with customers and growing your business. Learn how.

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How to use mind mapping to achieve your goals in 2024

Do you already use mind mapping? If you're busy working on your strategy for the year and feel a bit overwhelmed by all the directions you could take and the things you have to do, mind mapping can be a powerful tool to help you order your thoughts and find focus. Here's how you can do it.

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Worksheet: Reflecting on the Past to Set Intentional Goals for the Future

With a fresh start upon us, it’s time to start making plans for what lies ahead. I’ve created a worksheet to help identify what’s working and what’s not, so that you can tackle your challenges head on. If you want to set intentional goals for the new year, I encourage you to join me in using this worksheet to reflect on where you’ve come from, and where you want to go.


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Want to Start a Business? Take These Lessons from My Entrepreneurship Journey

Are you thinking about becoming an entrepreneur? Maybe you’re not feeling that stable in your day job, perhaps you just feel thrilled by the idea of what the entrepreneurship lifestyle could offer or you’ve had that eureka idea that you’re dying to execute. Whichever path you’re on, know that this road isn’t always easy. Today, we’re sharing our top lessons from the past years.

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Should You Start Your Own Business?

Are you thinking about launching a business? Not quite sure if it’s right for you? Many of our clients have been in your shoes. Having worked with over 100 founders and companies, we find many entrepreneurs tend to fall into one of 4 categories. See if one of these describes you. Depending on the answer, you will have a different journey.

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Is my business idea good enough?

They say you never know until you try. When it comes to starting a business however, a bit of market research can go a long way to get a pretty good idea of whether or not it’s actually worth trying beforehand. That may sound tedious, but it may spare your hours of pain and disappointment. So, let’s go through the basic steps you can take to conduct preliminary market research before launching your business and ensure success!

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4 Ways to Bring Your Business Online

For retailers that rely on brick and mortar stores to drive sales, the reality that people have fallen in love with the convenience of online shopping poses significant challenges, but also opportunities. If you can dust yourself off and reimagine your business strategy, you might find that investing in your digital presence and increasing your online marketing efforts, could have long-lasting advantages. Here are 4 things you can do right now to set yourself up for success!

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A lazy person’s guide to goal setting

Procrastinators may get a bad wrap, but often among entrepreneurs, procrastination tends not to come from a place of laziness but rather a sense of perfectionism; a deep seeded fear that if you don’t do it right, you shouldn’t do it at all. But if you don’t set goals, how can you pursue your purpose and even more so, how can you be sure you’re on track? Doing something is always better than doing nothing. Use our lazy person’s guide to set your goals for the new year.

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How do you define success?

In society, we often default to dollars as the standard measure of success, but isn’t there more to it? For us, there’s a very clear relationship between success and motivation - and what motivates us is the success of our clients! Learn more about some of our favourite projects and how we’ve helped different entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses achieve their goals.

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