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Owning a business is always a challenging, yet exciting way to live. I wouldn't trade it for anything. As a business owner, we all have one or two things we consider to be our biggest struggle, or vice. What is yours?

Mine is definitely finding a balance between my work life and personal life. My communication with my clients is either top notch, or it is as if I have fallen off the planet for days at a time. I feel terrible when this ends up happening, and nobody punishes me more...

justjoan

A great organization in the Muskoka area for small businesses is Muskoka Futures-- they help new and already established small businesses through funding opportunities, as well as interesting networking opportunities.

I have been invited to be a business mentor for their "Innovation Muskoka" initiative, which matches local artists with business mentors to exchange ideas and share strategies for success. We are going to be paired up-- one artist per business mentor, and we...

justjoan

Dear Sleeping Reader,

Over the last year I have home schooled my daughter. It has been a challenge to teach her the basic skills of reading and it didn’t seem to matter what I did, she still did not understand the basic concepts.

When I ordered your program I had been through two other courses that had failed and I just wasn’t sure whether this one would be able to work for her. But after just a few weeks of beginning the course my daughter and I had a fresh look...

jasonallenmiller

Sleeping Reader Customer Service:

I have a young daughter named Lillian who had been struggling in her 2nd Grade Class with reading. She knew the names of the letters but could not remember the sounds that they made, making it hard for her to read even the easiest words. She was frustrated and failing almost all of her spelling tests, it become so bad that she didn’t want to go to school anymore.

I asked Lillian’s teacher if there was anything that she could do...

jasonallenmiller

Dear Sleeping Reader Team,

My Grandson was having issues with uppercase letters verses lowercase letters. In school he was taught to only recognize uppercase or capital letters, but when it came to reading a book that has mostly lowercase letters he would draw a blank.

This problem I found out latter is very common and is one the biggest reasons why you can not teach the visual image of the letters before you teach the sounds. You must learn the sounds of the letters...

jasonallenmiller