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We have all seen at least a few empty storefronts in our towns or heard of friends or colleagues who have been forced to close their businesses in the last year or so due to economic conditions. Maybe you've spent more than one morning wondering about your business struggles and pondering, "How do I know whether to persevere or quit?"

March is Women's History Month. March 8 is International Women's Day. March is also March Madness, but I believe that the use of the word "madness" in a month dedicated to women is unintentional. Right?

Last Saturday, February 27th, Chile was hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Today it experienced a 6.6 magnitude aftershock.If you're looking for ways to help the earthquake's survivors, the sites and blogs below have posted lists of relief organizations working in Chile:

If you own your own business, you know just how hard it is to create business systems from scratch. Those everyday systems that make your business go are crucial to your success, yet you don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel.

We've all heard of the concept of hitting bottom. Generally it's associated with alcoholism or other forms of addiction. But there are other areas of life in which we can hit bottom. How do we recognize when we've reached the valley and are ready to start climbing back toward the mountain top? Are there some areas for which we have to hit bottom, or is it possible to recognize that we are going in the wrong direction and pull up instead? I suspect that our popular culture conception of hitting bottom might be a myth. The idea that there is one spectacularly awful moment at which an epiphany of crystal clarity occurs and change becomes inevitable seems to me to be a kind of made-for-the-movies fantasy. I've known addicts who have had to move through repeated cycles of seriously bad stuff in their lives and lather-rinse-repeat the experience of rehab before attaining a substance-free life that remains that way only as long as they do the hard work of making the choice every day when they wake up.