Have you ever had a time in your life when you wanted to do something you really wanted to do, but weren’t really sure what you wanted to do?  Are you sick of hearing that if you follow your passion the money will follow, because you have no idea what you’re passionate about? That’s just [...]

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My friend Rhonda Smith is one of them.  She left the corporate consulting world to start a program totally dedicated to helping breast cancer survivors recover from treatment in a more holistic and integrative way. But her note to me today reminds me that all women can benefit from her approach to recover, restore and [...]

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Some of you may not know that I had a long history in technology sales, as a retail rep, retail sales manager, outside sales manager, technical sales manager, regional sales director and national sales director for various companies. I also managed sales teams as parts of other jobs. So, when I received a request from [...]

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  Nick Smith of Clear Path Training and I are traveling paths so close together, they are almost one. in fact, you might call it The Clear Path. When I read his book, The Art of Accomplishment: 35 Surprisingly Simple Ways To Start Reaching All Of Your Goals, and compared the thought leadership in it [...]

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When was the last time you sat still for an hour and just thought about things? Not ruminated, or worried, or planned, or regretted, or wished…but actually allowed yourself a  space in which to dive deeply into some component of your life, stare out the window, and say, “Hey…Where do I want this to go?” [...]

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You’ve probably heard that you can’t manage what you’re not measuring, but the inverse is true as well. You can’t measure what you’re not managing. But I bet you’re still trying. You’re still trying to measure your impact on things that you have absolutely no control over. The key is understanding what it is that [...]

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In the spirit of helping my fellow bloggers, writers, authors, speakers, small business owners and business professionals grow their audiences and businesses, I interviewed one of the owners of my virtual assistance firm, Crisler Professional Services, about the concept of a blog tour.  Lincoln Crisler is an author and small business owner himself, so he [...]

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  A week ago, I was sitting on the deck of a rental cabin in Maggie Valley, NC.  My husband and I went up for some R&R and so that I could heal after having my gallbladder removed a bit more than a week prior. Most people have their gallbladders removed because they get a [...]

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If you haven’t been living under a rock, you know that there  Christian groups that believes that tomorrow, May 21st, is Judgment Day, and that a giant earthquake will shake the world, and believers will be taken up to heaven.  (Actually planetary destruction by fire occurs on October 21st, Rapture Day.) According to these same [...]

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Loved this post on the Game Theory Ninja blog: David Pearce Snyder is a consulting futurist of Snyder Family Enterprise, and an author of numerous books on future trends.  Today, he presented on Complexipacity. In the lecture, he defined Complexipacity as: “A person’s or organization’s threshold for assimilating or addressing complex ideas, systems, problems, situations, [...]

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