Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category
Monday, January 7th, 2008
"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop" -- Ancient Chinese proverb
Even if all your client communications are electronic rather than face to face, your attitude still comes through. Are you friendly? Are you approachable? Are you easy to deal with? Would you ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Started planning yet? Here's a great post from Dumb Little Man about kicking your motivation into high gear. Want some more? How about this tasty tidbit from Seth Godin:
Here's a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save you ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
My little book club was lucky enough to talk with Kristy Kiernan, author of the recent book group favorite, Catching Genius. I've always wondered about overnight sensation stories like hers, so we talked about her path to success. Turns out Catching Genius is not a first novel... ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Well, it's more like Monday Evening Motivation - I got back at noon today from running the Space Coast Half Marathon in Cocoa Beach and haven't had time until now to get to this.
Take a look at these great motivational quotes from BNET's Sales Machine. Maybe you won't find ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Greg Mankiw quotes hedgie Mark Sellers instructing Harvard Business School students. Greg focused on the Mark's comments that clear writing expresses clear thinking (and you'd better be good at clear thinking), but I got a lot more out of the transcript of the speech than that.
Sellers develops the idea ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
36 year old Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, gave $27.5 million to Stanford University Hospital. Wow! Here's Marc talking about the gift on his blog.
Mrs. Thatcher used to say, "No one would remember the Good Samaritan if all he had were good intentions. He ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
One of the foundational steps in Stephen Covey's prescription for self-mastery is developing a sense of honor which is so important to you that it becomes greater than your moods. So if I've made a commitment to do something, the fact that I don't feel like doing it is ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
BusinessPundit wrote a great post about selling for introverts. Now you may have started your web-based business thinking, "No more sales calls! No more sales presentations!" I'm here to tell you that's the wrong way to think. Everything needs pitching. And you can build your ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Just listened to Stephen Covey's Four Disciplines of Execution. Classic Covey, no big surprises. The four disciplines are:
Focus on your Wildly Important Goals
Create a compelling scoreboard
Translate lofty goals into specific actions
Hold each other accountable all the time
What differentiates a Covey book from the typical "execution" or "decision-making" tome ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Today's Monday Morning Motivational topic is CMU Professor Dr. Randy Pausch, who is suffering from terminal cancer of the pancreas.
I'm sure you've heard about Professor Pausch and his last lecture, but if you haven't actually seen the lecture video yet, take an hour and watch it - it's tremendously ...
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