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If you’re like most busy professionals, you often get to the end of the day with more left undone than done on your to do list. Who’s fault is that? Are there really just not enough hours in the day? Did you put too many things on your list? It may be that you did [...]

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One year is ending, and the next is beginning.  It’s traditionally a time of reflection, and of opening up to new possibilities. It’s also a time when many people are opening gifts.  Many of us struggle with the consumerism that has crept into this season.  But are gifts just packages of stuff?  When you reflect [...]

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If you feel like you just don’t want to hear one more great idea or suggestion, because you don’t have time to do it, this is for you. I speak with people all the time who know what they need to do, or at least some of it, yet knowing just isn’t enough. Making Time [...]

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I was fortunate in college to have several amazing professors from whom I learned a great deal, both in their content areas, and, even more importantly, from their life wisdom.  One in particular, Dr. Donella Meadows, shared a great deal of life wisdom with us. One of her most valuable lessons was the uselessness of [...]

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It’s all too easy to slip into thinking, “I should be further along; I should have already done that.”  Or to believe it’s harder to accomplish this now because that happened. If someone asks, “Where are you?” and you believe they’re asking about your physical location, do you tell them where you were before, the [...]

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Asking the question, “How do you contribute to yourself?” seems almost a little silly.  Most of us think of contribution as something we do to and for others, or the world at large.  Can you actually contribute to you?  Perhaps a place to start this inquiry is by looking at the opposite, and asking, “How [...]

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How is a job interview, an important sales call, or a big presentation just like when your turn comes in Olympic Competition? In all of these, your future hinges on how well you perform in the next few minutes.  How can you increase your chances of succeeding? As any Olympic Athlete will tell you – [...]

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“Whatever the mind can conceive, and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill It is completely possible to fulfill your goals. The first essential step is simple – you need to know what you want.  If you don’t know what you want, if you don’t have clear written goals – Do That First. For [...]

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What is the impact of miscommunication in your business and your life? How often are you frustrated that “they” didn’t get what you meant? Do you find yourself doing what you think “they” wanted, only to find out it wasn’t? Whether “they” are your customer, your employer, your employee, your spouse, parent, child or friend, [...]

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For each of us, there are tasks we’d rather not have to do.  You know which these are. What are those things you need to do that you just dread?  Or that always drift to the bottom of your to do list?  Which ones do you never find time for?  Maybe it’s completing a project [...]

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