One of the first steps to creating a successful business venture is to bring a concept to a reality. Before you know it, you’re creating momentum and bringing on new team members.
You have taken the steps to becoming a powerful leader. You even figure some things out along the way about yourself and get comfortable that you’re at the peak of your leadership.
You are planning your work and working your plan. You commit to stretch yourself knowing you can take on more.
At some point,
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The Simple Way to Be Great at Sales
Don’t do sales.
Have you ever met or seen someone who was following a script? Recently, I received a call and when I asked them to repeat who they were, it sounded like a pre-recorded answer.
In that moment I realized that I was talking to an automated phone response.
What was missing in that interaction (other than a live person)?
As a prospect, they weren’t in my world.
As I look back on my career, I recall times where I wasn’t in the other person’s world. I tried to follow
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The Key to Being A Resilient Entrepreneur
As I was catching up on my reading with Inc. Magazine, I noticed a familiar quote in the article, 50 Inspiring Quotes on How to Start a Company from Scratch by Contributing Editor, John Brandon.
8. The problem is that many entrepreneurs start with good intentions to create a new mindset system but then slack off. The solution is to make that system part of your daily routine. --Lisa A. Mininni, president of ExcellerateAssociates.com
While it is always fun to see your own quote, it wasn’t the
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Lucky Gene or Power of Beliefs?
When it comes to winning, many people are taught to believe that it's all random chance. You either have the lucky gene or you don't. Still, there are those people, myself included, who believe that when we get our beliefs, thoughts and feelings lined up, we determine what we allow into our life (or block from life).
For years, people have always said my father was “lucky”. So, when I heard that my 83-year-old father won yet another drawing, I couldn’t resist asking him his lifelong secret.
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What Does the Fable, Chicken Little, Have to Do With Attracting Clients?
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There’s an old folktale called Chicken Little. It’s a story about a chicken who believed the world was coming to an end all because an acorn fell on his head. Throughout the story, he kept shouting, “the sky is falling!”
On his way to see the King to tell him his findings, he focused on telling everyone that the sky was falling and many people along
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