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When we are always in motion, it's hard to take inventory of where we are at. The net net of our lives comes from all the decisions we have made that either cause lift or drag. And what we attach ourselves to does one or the other. Some
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Do you feel secure with plans? Do you feel sophisticated investing in complex financial instruments? Do you expect next year to be like last year? Old mindsets may have worked for old realities. When change was slow and the next month was predictable, then laying out the path had a
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Everyone is not worth giving to or doing business with. I know this statement is not PC, a feel good or easy to hear. But I would submit there is a lot of falsity to the statements from authors and pundits that want you to spread your seeds of goodwill
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We have a lot of snazzy tools that tell us what's going on in the world, what kind of analytics are affecting our businesses or who likes us or follows us. It's not bad stuff. But there's a side effect of information that I
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What do you want? How do you win? What is a bigger vision? These are first questions and they take honesty, boldness and complete personal responsibility. They represent risk. Asking second questions, How much does it cost? Where are we going to get the resources? What if we fail? How
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Is there anything you can't learn? If you want to learn how to build a website, easy. Start Googling. If you want to even learn from the best universities from the convenience of your chair at home, go to Coursera. You can learn to speak, program, manage projects,
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You lose something when you don't practice every day. We get to enjoy the pros on TV and their phenomenal athleticism, stagecraft or presentation because we are seeing consistency. While the rest of onlookers wallow in mediocrity skipping days, getting distracted or chasing Facebook likes, we are awed
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When you peer into many businesses, it may surprise you to see how much energy is spent trying to get people to simply do what they are supposed to. If you are trying to scale your business to drive revenue and make customers happy, then having systems and people to
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I hope your New Year is kicking off with enthusiasm and opportunity. We live in an amazing time where our ideas and hard work can produce a great return in revenue and growth. I wrote about Making That Next Million a few days ago and there were many who wanted
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As we approach the holidays, how about giving a gift to yourself that will pay dividends in your business and life? What if you were a person who surprises others every day? You can do this by not committing to things you are not required to. When you see a
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There are two types of people in the world: Those that make things happen and those that wait for something to happen. My observation is the vast majority of people are in the latter group. They get asked to do things all the time and then they react. They are
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Those are two entirely different things, hard and impossible. And we can talk ourselves into them being the same thing if we are not careful. Hard is part of reality. It's hard to change course, leave your dead end job, shut down a dying concept and go for