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Being You Without Approval

Aug 30, 2016
1 min

Being You Without Approval

One of the greatest freedoms you will experience is the action of being yourself without others’ approval. Not being able to be yourself, always trying to change for others doesn’t feel good at all. Many people will not be themselves because they feel and think they are not good enough for others. Forget about getting other people’s approval. Why? Because you will never get everyone’s approval. There will be some folks who disapprove of you and your thoughts and actions no ma

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The 3 Most Important Components To Focus On To Sell Your Company For Top Price

Aug 4, 2016
2 min

The 3 Most Important Components To Focus On To Sell Your Company For Top Price

I have been repeating these three things over and over lately everywhere I have an opportunity. What are the 3 most important things you need to get right in order to sell your company? Not only to sell it, but to get a premium? 1. The management team 2. The management team 3. The management team Yes, the top three things are all the same. As a matter of fact, this is so important, an entrepreneur from Egypt told me a week or so ago, he changed his business card from managi

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Mar 23, 2016
3 min

Why Multitasking Is A Myth

Leaders Must Understand Multitasking Pulls Down Performance No person in the world can do two things equally well at the same time. It’s not possible, as a matter of fact, both tasks will probably suffer. Multitasking is a term we have adopted to make us feel good about excusing less than superior performance. If you challenge someone on this, they will more than likely get really defensive with you and proudly declare they do not have time not to multitask. It is is an essen

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Mar 13, 2016
3 min

How To Get People Moving On An Idea

My new clients love to tell me their organization is different. They feel it is necessary to get me educated up front on their industry. What I tend to focus on is the one thing that makes all organizations very similar, they are all made up of people. Typically, this is the one place where many organizations have their struggles. They are very good at business intelligence, market intelligence, competitive and peer data. They spend time planning how to become the biggest and

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Mar 6, 2016
1 min

What Is Blocking You?

Which of these 5 things are keeping you from doing what you really want to do? You don’t know what to do You don’t know how to do it You don’t have the authority or resources to do it You are scared You don’t have any support Get yourself out of the rut. Each one of this is fixable or curable. What is will take is some courage, diligence and time. If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. Step out of your comfort zone and remember that many of the gr

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Mar 2, 2016
2 min

Killing The Dragon Daily

Steven Pressfield calls it the resistance. I call it the dragon. It’s voice in our head and heart that tells us to be careful, to back off, go slow, to compromise or to settle. It can be writer’s block to a writer, a slump to an athlete or a plateau to a leader. It puts fear and jitters into every project or every major initiative because your team couldn’t stay on the same page long enough to get it pushed through or out the door on time. As we get closer to a breakthrough,

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Feb 14, 2016
2 min

3 Steps To Avoid Regret

Do things your future self will thank you for. We have all experienced it. The woulda-coulda-shoulda feeling of thinking how we should have made different choices than we did. Wishing we would have had a different outcome than the one we are experiencing. I should have paid more attention to my health. I could have spent more time with a certain friend.I would have done this differently if I had known more. The fact is, you can pay more attention to your health. I can spend m

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Feb 10, 2016
2 min

The Secret To Big Change

Why doesn’t massive, awesome strategy get implemented and executed? Or..for that matter even mediocre to small plans? Because human beings have to execute and implement. You download new updates to computers and smart phones then instantly press a button to implement and execute. People don’t function that way. You are much better off revealing the short-end of your plan, say 90 to 180 days and then the incremental steps to get to that end. This is the way to get increased sa

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Jan 8, 2016
1 min

The Critical Decision

Each time something is presented to you, you make a critical decision. It usually goes one way or another. You can believe in what was presented and begin to use it. Or You can choose not to believe in it and not use it. Anytime you are asked to believe and commit to something new, you have to make the same critical decision. You have the key to your own house. You can unlock the door and let it in or you can keep the door locked and reject it. Do you believe it and then act

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Apr 10, 2014
1 min

Move The Needle, Not Turn Up The Volume

Some people measure the success of their day by how much they get accomplished. In other words, by sheer volume. As is being super busy equals being super productive. Effective people measure the success of their day by the quality of what gets accomplished. Their measure of success is how effectively what they did moved the needle of the company or their goals forward. Research has shown multitasking results in mediocre outcomes. By putting too little attention on too many t

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