Success
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Flip the Switch
A Story I’m going to tell you a story so that you can learn an important lesson without having to go through what I went through to learn it. How’s that for a deal? Then you’ll be able to do… Continue reading
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Are You A Wannabe?
Are you an Executive wannabe? An entrepreneur wannabe? An artist wannabe? A marathoner wannabe? An author wannabe? Do you put one of those on your New Year’s Resolutions list? How about your career goals list? What Is Stopping You? Look… Continue reading
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Promoted! Now What?
Congratulations! You just got promoted. Or you just got reorganized into a new department. Or you just got a new boss. How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning. Ok, crashing… Continue reading
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Appreciate What You’ve Got
This is all going to end. I know this doesn’t come as news to most of you, but everything we have is quite transient. Possessions (think hurricane/fire/tornado), health, and even life itself. There are two ways to approach this fact. … Continue reading
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Get Your ‘Get Up and Go’
I spent much of Sunday morning watching a few hundred people participate in their first triathlon. It was sixty-something degrees and drizzling. What would possess these people—all ages, shapes and sizes—to come out in the rain to inflict discomfort on… Continue reading
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How to Increase Your Visibility in Your Organization
Who Knows Who You Are? One of the most important things to realize as you work your way up the ladder at your organization is that other people are rarely as aware of you as you think. You work hard. … Continue reading
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Face What’s Holding You Back
What Do You Think is Holding You Back? What do you tell yourself about what is holding you back? You need another degree? Your boss doesn’t like you? You have to relocate for the next step? You’re too old? Too… Continue reading
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You Have To Start To Succeed
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. I saw this quote yesterday and LOVED it. I searched the Internet to try to find the author unsuccessfully, but discovered in the process that this… Continue reading
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Work As We Know It Is Changing–Get Ready!
That Was Then My maternal grandmother went to work when she was thirteen years old at a china factory that made dishes for hotels and restaurants and, eventually, naval ships. She stayed in a rental room with her two-year-older sister… Continue reading
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There’s Networking, and Then There’s NETWORKING
Do It Before You Need It I started this blog out of frustration. I had just talked to my umpteenth client/friend/student/colleague who found him/herself out of a job with a stone cold network and a total freak out about what… Continue reading
