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You are best at being you
Why aren’t you using more of this knowledge to your advantage? When Giulia Enders was 17, she developed a skin disease and realized how little she knew about her own body, so she started reading, and it turned out it was the gut that fascinated her the most. She cleared up her problem by diet.…
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Are you using your mental magnet?
Whenever I talk to clients about choosing a niche, or focusing on solving one problem, or mastering some area of expertise, they always view this as cheating themselves out of something larger. Why narrow my focus when I can have it all? But there is wisdom in a narrow focus. Have you ever had to…
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How do you create the reality you want to see?
Businesses want results. More money. More profit. We want ways to make more money. We want action and we want it fast. Business owners love guarantees. Do X, and I promise you will get Y. Guarantees are lies because not all ideas are going to work. In order to create your reality you need to…
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Are you letting sideshows distract and discourage you from your major goals?
Think about a goal that remains elusive. From as far back as you can remember, you’ve wanted to achieve this. You read about others like you, with similar talents, earning and living your desired life and the lifestyle that came with that. When you think about this goal, this target you set for yourself, no…
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What’s Your Word?
Have you ever heard about choosing one word and living with it for a year? Well some time back in November I decided to choose joy. Joy is the highest energy of all. It’s the magical sense that everything is possible; it springs from appreciating the gifts in each moment except I wasn’t doing that.…
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Do You Have a Business or a Hobby?
Today it’s so easy to “start” a business. Come up with a name Design / create a logo Invest in 100 business cards Create a website And voila! You are “in” business! The real question is: Is the business in you? So what exactly is a hobby? This definition from Wikipedia sums it up: A…
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Why Are We Still Failing At Customer Service?
We all think we can teach this class. We can identify poor service immediately. We see what’s wrong and how it can be fixed in an instant! I like what Ohad Shperling, a writer at Personalics, says: “A bad customer experience -we all know what it feels like. The blow-a-gasket, go-ballistic, hit-the-ceiling, foam-at-the-mouth rage after…
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If You Don’t Keep Focusing on This, You Won’t Get Results
Clayton Christensen, a man wearing many hats including professor, author, entrepreneur, missionary, husband, and father made this very bold statement in his essay “How Will You Measure Your Life?” If you study the root causes of business disasters , over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at…
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It Takes More than Passion to Succeed
Follow your passion is bad advice. So says Cal Newport, Ph.D., a 30 something year-old and assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. Yet many of us feel badly because we don’t know what our passion is. First we have to find it and THEN we can follow it! Makes sense, somewhat but it doesn’t…

