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Redesigned for Success PROFITABILITY. It’s what every business owner wants – that’s why business owners go into business. Making money is what impels people to spend 60 hours a week away from the people they love, with the hopes of providing a comfortable life for their families and leaving a legacy for their children. Every entrepreneur desires the freedom to chart their own course doing something they love and make money doing it.
THE KEY IS TO OPERATE FROM A PLACE OF WISDOM.
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// BY: COMFORT CHEVANNES
But how to be a successful business owner is not a class you can take in college. In fact, most successful business owners have gotten to their place of achievement the old-fashioned way: working hard. The process probably involved frustration, challenges, deals gone bad, trial and error, decision regrets, depleted savings, tearful nights, fasting and prayer and sadly, even broken relationships. That’s the side people seldom talk about. What’s also not spoken of is the uncertainties of whether all the right things are being done, and if so, why is the business still struggling. Imagine operating your business with confi-
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