We have all been blessed with so many things: our health, our friends, our family, technology and just a handful of people that will change our lives forever. Who am I taking about? There are those people in our lives that see things in us that we ourselves don’t. They do not accept excuses. They […]
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A friend called me up the other day to tell me how much they enjoy my website. It’s always nice to hear as I spent quite some time setting it up and then even more time working on my posts. When I mentioned that I had done it all with the help of a friend
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So your vacation’s coming up – Have you got the bags packed? Got everything you need? What’s first on the schedule? No matter how many times we have a vacation it’s always the same routine – do this, go there, see that and meet them. Think back to your last vacation, how did you spend
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A few weeks ago I was talking with a client about a topic that is near and dear to my heart – education. One of the things that amazes me is just how out of touch our education systems are with reality. Schools are meant to give us the foundations with which we can build
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If you’ve read some of my other time management tips here, then you’ll know just how much I value time and believe that it’s one of the keys to success. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to know that we’ve only got so much time. For some, it’s very short. For others, longer.
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About 20 years ago Michael Crichton became an overnight success with the release of his bestselling book Jurassic Park. I will admit that I didn’t rush out and buy the book, but I was looking forward to seeing the movie as it was directed by Steven Spielberg and had gotten rave reviews for its computer
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In today’s world there’s pretty much no getting around using a computer for business. The sheer number of programs that are available today is staggering and it’s hard to know what to get, and more importantly, what to avoid. Considering I have six computers at present I consider myself familiar with a variety of programs
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The other day I was talking with a client and they mentioned how much they enjoyed my blog but they were curious to know if that’s all I did – spend my life thinking and discussing success principles. I’m actually a huge fan of MOVIES and TV shows. There were days when I used to
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A few months ago I had a dinner meeting with one of my clients. And, big surprise, they were late. Again. Still, I figured I wouldn’t mention anything as I didn’t want to get sidetracked so we dove right in. We talked about their life and some business opportunities that had come about and managed
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Negotiation is one of the most valuable tools in success. Negotiation is part communication, part reading others. But what negotiation is not is hard. Just ask my son. At the age of two, barely able to string 4 words together in a sentence and the guy is a master negotiator. Watching him in action is
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