Anne Bachrach

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Networking Groups – Worth Your Time and Investment?

If you are or have ever been involved in a ‘networking’ group, was it worth the time and energy you invested? If you paid a fee, was it worth the investment? If you said yes, it was or is worth the time, energy, and money I invested, that’s great. So many people I talk to who are involved in one or more networking groups, seem to be going through the motions. They don’t seem to get much out of the group, so what are they really putting into the group? When you attend a networking group function, ask yourself what…

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Referral Conversations So You Can Help People

It’s about being of service and helping people get what they want and need, when they want and need it. Set a goal to ask for one person for a referral each day, or whatever you want your goal to be. In so many cases, it isn’t that people don’t want to refer you, it is that they are busy and consumed with the things going on in their life to think about how to help you help other people.

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Eight Powerful Ways to Maintain Persistence

Often we become so fixed on the goal, we forget that other options exist. Be prepared for the fact that not only will the road to achieving your goals take a number of unexpected turns, the goal posts may shift too. Allow yourself to stay flexible and understand that what you originally envisioned may alter to become a fresher, more realistic outcome.

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The Power of Persistence

What really is the difference between being persistent and being a royal pain in the butt? Persistence requires a great degree of premeditated thought and advance planning. When someone is persistent they are fully committed, not to an action, as if repeating multiple incidents with no particular purpose, but to a plan.

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If Nothing is on your calendar you probably are doing Nothing

What are the chances of you doing your highest payoff activities and the activities that will put you in the highest probability position to achieve your goals if nothing is on your calendar, or the things on the calendar aren’t the ‘right’ activities? Is every minute of your day accounted for toward something? It needs to be if you want to be as successful as possible.

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Consistently Produce Your Desired Results

The efficient person may move rapidly, checking off things to do in a hurried fashion. After all, the motivation is to perform the job quickly and with minimal waste. This attitude, however, may not give the proper attention to details. This is not to say that someone that is efficient is doing anything wrong. In fact, there are many benefits to being an efficient thinker. Efficient thinkers are organized. They operate quickly and don’t have time for procrastination or laziness.

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10 Principles to Eliminate Distractions and Encourage Success

Take a moment and ask yourself where you truly want to be? Now tell me how many things you did today, yesterday, and the day before yesterday that directly contributed to the future results you want. And then tell me how many things you did today that did not contribute to your success. Those things probably distracted you from what you knew you should have been doing.

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The ‘Key’ To What Really Motivates You to Achieve Your Dreams!

What motivates you? What gets you fired up? What gets your ‘juices’ flowing? What vision of the future excites you? Being inspired momentarily is easy for many people, but staying motivated long-term can be challenging for some of us. You go through a process of being really motivated in the beginning to being completely unmotivated, which makes it easy for anyone to quit.

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4 Steps to Conquer Fears and Start Living Life On Your Terms

We’ve all been afraid to try something new at one time or another. Why is that? It seems as we age, our fear controls more and more of our willingness to try something new. We prefer to forgo a new experience because we want to avoid whatever bad thing we think could happen. Maybe the anxiety is just too stressful for us to even contemplate facing our fears. Whatever the reason, we justify that trying something new is not worth the risk.

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The 5 Secrets of Effective Multi-tasking

You probably realize that your success is riding on your ability to maximize your time and performance to the highest optimal point possible. You can only handle so much in any given 24-hour day and unless you’ve found a way to add more time to the clock, you have to do more in less or the same amount of time without running yourself into the ground. We all have 168 hours in the week and it’s all about how effectively we use the time we have.

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Use Your Motivation to Your Advantage

The basic definition of motivation is “inspiration, stimulus or incentive.” Motivation has also been called an internal need or desire that induces a person to take action. Interestingly, motivation can be either positive or negative, as well as a very subtle or of a more tangible quality. Once you learn what drives you, how and why, you will have more power over yourself.

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Become A Master of Change

For most of us, the thought of change can send us into a panic attack. For some of us, we might fear change because it disrupts our sense of security and consistency by challenging our perceptions. As much as we crave stability and security, change is an inevitable part of life and we can either choose to embrace it or resist it.

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Are you where you want to be in life?

During the end of each year, many of us start to look forward to next year. What will we set as goals for the next year? What do we want to accomplish? What do we want to change to get what we want next year? What challenges might we expect and how do we overcome them to achieve what we want next year? Some people might even be saying that it is time to change jobs, careers, industries, and try something else. Maybe some feel like they just need to change what they are doing for some reason so it makes it more fun and exciting to do something new and different.

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