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Laughter – The Best Business
While we think that productivity is about taking control of our time, it is every bit as much about relaxing our minds so that we can focus and be creative - key components of a successful business. Humor is another way to put you in that state of mind. Humor relaxes...
Take Your Business on a TRIP: Six Keys to Planning a Successful Public Relations Campaign in 2010
Recall your last vacation. Your face gleamed with excitement as you scheduled your flight or rental car arrangements. You probably reviewed your itinerary countless times to make sure that you didn't forget that 9AM flight or else your entire day was going to be...
Goal Setting: Ten Lessons I Learned While Climbing to the Top
I recently spent some time in Door County, Wisconsin on a relaxing little weekend getaway. On my last day there, I set out with a girlfriend to explore Peninsula State Park, a beautiful nature preserve located on a bluff high above the waters of Green Bay. As we went...
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Sharing Fitness: Starting Your Own Fitness Club
This is the time of year we all get distracted. Seasons are changing, holidays are around the corner and we don't need much of an excuse to stop exercising. If you don't want to fall into this trap you might want to consider getting by with a little help from your...
When Passion and Purpose Collide
Are you feeling overwhelmed or frustrated with your current path in life? Do you spend your days dreaming of what life would be like if you could only do what you loved to do? Are you scared to take the leap of doing what you love because of the security of your...
The Seven F’s – Priorities for Life
Everyone looks for ways to enjoy a better quality of life. Many have found it is wise to measure life, not by its length, but by its depth. Maturity, integrity, wholesomeness, love, being of service and other personal character traits can be far more important and...
Building Self Esteem 8 Ways: Remove The Blocks to Growth and You'll Love Your Life
Coaches often use a Life Balance Wheel to help clients determine whether their lives are in balance. Sometimes I suggest to a client to draw a circle, divide it into eighths and use the labels shown below for each section of the pie. Then I'll suggest they put a mark...
Tips for Increasing Online Sales – The Questions You Need to Answer to Get More Customers Now
I'm going to let you in on a very dirty secret: There is one question that is being dodged by experts in EVERY market. Answer that question and you'll corner the market, be worshipped forever and get more customers and sales. If it was that easy, why aren't other...
Marketing Tips: Are You Marketing Your Business Like a Bottle of Pomegranate Juice?
Do you own a business like the financial adviser industry where... We all sell the same products. We all sell them for the same price. We all offer our clients good service. We all have a good handle on how to help our clients best. So how do we get a prospect to...
Alberto Villoldo – 2012-The Next Step of Evolution?
Trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist, Alberto Villoldo began his research in the Amazon, working with a group of healers who specialized in treating illness before it manifested in the physical body. In 1984, Dr. Villoldo founded The Four Winds Society...
Sales Training Effectiveness: Increase Your Bottom Line With Sales Training That Sticks
Why are sales training programs so often unsuccessful? The typical company spends tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to put its entire sales force through the latest, hottest sales training program touted to increase its bottom line numbers. But,...
Bacterial Wars: How Esophagus Related Problems, Stomach Pains, Acid Stomach, Esophagitis and Dyspepsia May be Alleviated
Louis Pasteur was the Mick Jaeger of nineteenth century science. And rightly so. But rock star that he was, he made the word bacteria and bacterial synonymous with disease, a mis-impression that is still with us today. Good Bacteria vs. Bad Bacteria Make no mistake,...
The Art of Stretching Time
The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While chronos refers to the time of physics or linear-sequential time (such as that of the clock "alarming" you out of bed in the morning), kairos refers to a moment or period of undetermined time in which...
The Great Decline: How to Change Loss into Gain
In the past months, we have witnessed one of the great declines ever in the stock market, our personal wealth, and means of livelihood. As wealth in our homes and investments has all but evaporated, as many of us have lost jobs, we wonder if what little left in the...
10 Ways to Stop Attracting New Clients & Kill Your Small Business in a Recession
One of the most reasonable approaches to surviving an economic downturn is to slash all unnecessary business expenses. In their panic to save money, wild-eyed and frothy-mouthed entrepreneurs begin looking suspiciously at their marketing plans. On the surface,...
