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We use our ideas of who we are to rationalize all kinds of behavior. Letting go of limiting definitions lets us do our best work.
Mark Reiter is a top literary agent and a master with words. Mark and I worked together on my new book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There. In the book, we discuss 20 annoying habits of successful people-and then talk about how to break these habits and achieve positive, lasting change in behavior.
I have come to the realization that many business owners and sales professionals (and most other people for that matter) don't operate from a Prosperity Mindset. They either don't have a clear vision of what abundant prosperity looks like to them or they don't really want it bad enough to do what it takes to get there. Call me naive, but when I first started teaching my referral system, I assumed that everyone in sales and business had a Prosperity Mindset; that everyone wanted to achieve a
Become a student of Impression Management. Decide what impression you want to make in your business and personal interactions, and then learn how to make that impression through your appearance and behavior.
Identify the unconscious messages that every color sends and determine how those messages fit into your master plan. Know what colors say power and authority, dependability, calmness, excitement, ordinary, cleanliness and much, much more.
They don't seem to go together, do they? That's what I thought too until I researched the history of Earth Day (April 22nd). It just so happens that Earth Day was born in 1970, which was also the year of Apollo 13, NASA's infamous successful failure. Where does teleworking or virtual assisting come in and how does it relate to our space program? I'm so glad you asked!
Several weeks ago we watched a Discovery Channel piece on Apollo 13. As we watched, it occurred to me that our very
Earth Day is held each April 22 but its purpose to promote a healthy environment is evident every day.
Whether it's a newspaper, radio, television or computer screen, warnings of how we're damaging the environment and messages on how to fix it are widespread. It seems everyone is "going green" in one way or another. Hybrid cars, canvas bags at the grocery store, energy efficient light bulbs, you name it, there's a way to go green. It has many businesses wondering the most