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Money Management and Baseball

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Imagine yourself as a baseball player.

First, your team gets a base hit, next you get a double. Then, another base hit. This is followed by a triple, and then you strike out. Next, you strike out twice in a row! Just about the time you are ready to abandon your team, they hit two home runs.

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Decompress Your Stress

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When work is crazy, you’re tired, and other people are getting on your nerves, what do you do? Yell at your coworkers? Take a sick day? Internalize it so you are bundle of nerves? Dream of Hawaii? Play a little Stress Relief 2.0 on your computer and decimate your opponents with a hammer, chainsaw, or flame thrower? If you feel stress, one way or the other, you must decompress.

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How Do You Decide?

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Most people don’t spend much time thinking about how they decide something – they are too busy deciding. But knowing how and why you decide can make the difference between finding your true path and wandering along a series of blind alleys.

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Got S.M.E.?

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So, tell me, do you have social-marketing expertise? Think you have what it takes to claim “subject matter expert” in the social media space? These types of survey questions are asked all the time, and the responses usually hint at a white lie, although you can’t tell the respondents that.

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Your Confidence Glass Needs to Runneth Over….

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Every day we need to start the day with extra confidence. Especially during these times, your clients and prospects need and take some of your confidence so if you don’t start your day with extra, they will know it and the chances of them doing business with you are less than if you have enough to give away to all that need some of your confidence during each day.

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Dreaming of True North

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Like everyone in a leadership role today, he is being pulled by two opposing demands: The demand to be forward thinking, innovative, and strategic and the demand to be grounded in today’s reality, manage tight resources, be tactical and constantly execute. Sound familiar?

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Lifestyle Branding: Engagement and the Total Experience

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If you go to a Porsche dealer they will talk to you about racing pedigree and performance, road-holding abilities – after which they will tell you about reliability and other attributes. This is all music to your ears as you seek to belong to that existence when it comes to the car you desire. It surely doesn’t sound as if the experience will be a mere commute from point A to B each time you drive a Porsche. When a consumer makes a purchase of certain brands, the behavior and choices define the expression of a certain taste – of…

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Strategy & Execution – Factors that Prevent Accomplishing More

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Not all companies take the time to close the gap between strategy and execution. Inherently, the gap is often caused by periods of significant change, akin to the environment of change today’s companies face. Any number of factors causes the chasm to widen, typically: Insufficient performance monitoring and metrics Lack of accountability for the convergence of strategy to execution Lack of cohesion in the relationship of personal and business goals Significant strategies without sufficient staff to execute effectively Lack of effective communicating how these strategies impact the customer Shortage of trained personnel to manage the content and its dispersal to…

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Do You Know Who Your Client Is and What They Really Want?

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This past week I’ve been speaking to both clients and potential clients about who their ideal client is. During discussions, one person said, “I see you’re really big on identifying the ideal client”. I explained that, Yes, I am big on identifying the ideal client because it makes the rest of business become easy. Let me give you some examples… Before I start working with a client, I have a 25 minute conversation with them to determine if they are my ideal client. I ask a variety of questions that drill down to find out exactly what they are looking…

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The Black Hole of Job Search

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Most people think this is where your resume goes when you apply for a job. While that’s true, I’m actually referring to the black hole most people become when they become job seekers.I see so many people ‘become’ job seekers.

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