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What My Chestnut Chasing Dog Taught Me About Implementation & Getting More Done!
It’s fall here in New Jersey and I know that not only because there’s a little chill in the air and the leaves are just now starting to change… I know because now when I go to South Mountain Reservation and walk my rescue dog Lily, she chases after all the chestnuts falling from the trees. The whole scene is actually quite comical, albeit sometimes a little frustrating. We get a pretty good pace going, then all of sudden we come across this huge patch of several hundred chestnuts on the ground and more falling. (In fact, I have to be careful and often dodge those falling from the trees…
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Is resistance the “real” dream killer?
Much debate goes on about what kills dreams these days, and of course there are many things. But, how many of these things can be directly attributed to the person themselves? What I mean is, instead of blaming the world, money, people, competition and everything outside of us, why not look within us first. I just finished this book, The War of Art, Break Through The Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. It was given to me at a Dan Kennedy workshop called the 7 Figure Academy. The sole focus of this workshop was on the 7 ways to take your 6 figure business to 7…
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How Bowling Helped Me Be A Better Entrepreneur…
The number of times I’ve gone bowling at an actual bowling alley could be counted on both hands. I went a couple of times when I lived in New Orleans (I grew up there until I moved away after going to LSU for college.) they had this great place called the Mid-City Lanes Rock-N-Bowl on the corner of Carrolton and Tulane. It was this great old bowling alley that was up these really steep stairs and it wasn’t just bowling. They had great Louisiana cuisine, (gumbo, crawfish etouffee, po-boys, etc.) and they had live local bands playing while you bowled. It was so much fun, having a beer, eating great…
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Why How People Learn is Crucial to Your Business
In my printed newsletter from July, (If you’re not getting my FREE printed monthly newsletter, click here to sign up!) I promised you that I’d explain the 4 Top Secret Ways in which people learn and why these are crucial to your business. Eben Pagan introduced me to these learning styles at his Guru Workshop in LA, and he got these from Dr. Wyatt Woodsmall. He’s a certified master trainer and master modeler in NLP and has over 25 years experience in behavior modeling and training. Discovering these styles was a fascinating revelation to me, not only because we all learn differently, but the fact that we can then use these…
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How to Fuel and Grow Your Business with Your Mistakes
Have you ever sent out an email to a bunch of folks and later found out that there was an egregious typo, or maybe you got a fact wrong, or maybe you forgot a word, or had a wrong date and on an on? The worst of it is that you didn’t find it, that one of your prospects, or maybe it was one of your clients took time out to tell you about your error. Well I can tell you from going through this experience more than once, it’s no fun making mistakes, simple ones like typos in your advertising, or in your email, and even more complex ones…
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Life is Simply Made up of Many Transitions…
I will never forget that particular day in February, many years ago, when I received the call that my sister was on her way to the hospital because she was going to have her first baby. This was big news in our family, mainly because she was the first sibling to have a baby. It was doubly exciting for me because I was going to be an aunt and she had asked me to be the baby’s godparent. I was awed and taken aback, sounded like a big responsibility, yet I was thrilled and jumped in with both feet as I always do. The christening was about 6 weeks later, so I booked my…
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7 Secrets to Surviving Being Let Go From Your Job…
This seems to be the hot topic – what to do when you get laid off from your job? It’s unfortunately affecting hundreds, if not thousands of people, right now as I write. And this is no time to jump for joy or make light of your situation. In fact, I hope that I can help you with offering you my own words of wisdom by revealing my 7 secrets to how I was able to survive being let go from my job. This is where I have the honor of being brutally honest with you because, I not only was let go from my corporate job once, but I…
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What’s my secret? Are you up for the challenge?
I get asked this question a lot – “What’s your secret to marketing implementation and getting so much accomplished for yourself and your clients?” I love this question because it really gets to the heart of people’s frustrations on getting things done, whether it’s finishing writing a book, or article, or creating a new product or service. Let’s face it, taking action can be challenging and sometimes even frustrating, I know, I’ve been there struggling myself, many times. So, what’s my secret? Well, first it’s creating my plan of action. What is it I’m trying to accomplish? Is it creating a product, writing a book, or maybe launching a product?…
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Choose Life, Choose a Job, Choose a Family, Choose Your Future…
What do you choose? This title of my blog is actually from a song that I love from the second soundtrack from the movie Trainspotting- called “Choose Life” by PF Project. (As an aside this is a great soundtrack, yet the movie was a little disturbing. Both of these CD’s, if you grew up in the 80’s and have a hankering for the British pop and techno stars of that era like Iggy Pop – you’ll love it!). I started this year with a bang and pulled out full throttle to accomplish my very ambitious goals for the year. This song kept playing in my head, because I had to…
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A Tea Party That Transformed My Life
Before I reveal my tea party tale of life transformation…..Fifty lashes for me, I know, for breaking my own rule and not writing for a whole month- yikes! Many apologies for not writing on a regular basis and of course so much has happened over the past month. I will do my best to give you a peak and get you up-to-speed on some cool things that I’ve discovered… Here’s how a tea party transformed my life- It was four years ago that I had been laid off for the second time. I was lost and a bit dazed as to where to turn and what to do. It…
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What’s Really Behind The Movie, The Secret?
Have you ever seen the movie The Secret? Well, I had the most absolute pleasure of attending a workshop by the two original people behind The Secret, who never made it into the movie. In fact it was a bit controversial how Rhonda Byrne let them fall onto the cutting room floor. I found this out by reading a fascinating article in the New York times about them. I had no idea about how connected they were with the whole law of attraction concept and all the incredible work not to mention all the books they’ve written. In fact my first taste of the Law of Attraction came from reading…
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Meeting Paul Newman and other Celebrity Tales…
Yes, it’s true, I had the total pleasure of meeting Paul Newman back in the fall of 2004. I had just been laid off for the second time and was basically a “professional audience member” for the now defunct Jane Pauley Show. Jane and I hit it off ever since I met her at her first taping and invited me to keep coming back. Every time I was in the audience she always had a great show. So I kept coming back. I was Jane’s “Mrs. Miller, ” who was a “professional audience member” for The Merv Griffin Show. When Paul Newman was on, I got my front row seat. …
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How 2 Days of personal strategic planning will set the stage for 2009
When was the last time you spent two whole days on your personal strategic plan for your life and your business? Well I can tell you, I just came from doing that, in none other than Martha’s Vineyard. Wow, what a workshop- I attended a Group Vision Day on MV and it was truly amazing. This time the drive going to Martha’s Vineyard, seemed to go quicker than the last. I made it to Wood’s Hole in 4 hours, so early, I had 2 hours to kill before the ferry. So I waited in the stand by line and got on the earlier ferry- the freighter ferry- now that was…
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How you can raise prices- right now- promise…
I know what you might be thinking- “how could I possibly raise prices right now with what’s happening in the economy?” The “sky is falling” down on Wall Street and banks are imploding. In fact my little brother works for Lehman Brothers and still has a job- for now- thank goodness. But the real deal, is you can’t get sucked into the negativity and mind set that all businesses are going to go under. This is actually NOT TRUE. There are many businesses who are making tons of money. The fact is, you just might have to dig a little deeper and change the way you’re marketing or change the…
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Daring Escape from Corporate America
I don’t know about you, but I feel like 2 years ago I made a very daring escape from Corporate America. I’d be entrenched and chained to a desk since I was 22 and that’s a long time. I had always thought that I’d be like my Dad and work at the same place forever until I retired. Yet, that was not my story and that was not meant to be for me. My career path took some long and winding and winded turns along the way. I started out in sales and then got into marketing. My tale is long and blogs are for short stories… So suffice to…