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Archive for June, 2009

Are You Finding the Joy?

We all love times of joy.  And we all want more joy in our lives.  But how much joy is already there?  Joy that you might be failing to appreciate?  

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New Beginnings

Life never stops giving us a chance for new beginnings.  Some of these we like and look forward to.  Like a new job, a new bike, or a new house.  And some of these we don’t want to see.  Like when we lose someone we love.  

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Can You Be Coached

We all need coaches.  And in many different areas.  A coach can rise above your emotions or preconceived opinions in situations and see things that you wouldn’t notice.  A swing coach can help a golfer or a baseball player.  A career coach can help you make the right decisions.  Whether it is your stance, goal setting, or even mental mindset the right coach can help you achieve much more than you could do for yourself.  

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Healthy Skepticism or Fear of Success?

In a few posts last week we looked at what happens when you are exposed to your “deal of a lifetime.”  I believe the average person gets offered a deal of a lifetime about every two years.  They just don’t become the lifetime deals because they don’t recognize or act on most of them. 

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Busting Loose from the Biz Game

So let me ask you: Are you struggling in your business or career right now? Are you doing well or “OK” but you want to do better?

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The 11 Deadly Sins of Twitter

So with all the hype about Twitter, what’s the real truth?  Is it the next big thing, a social media marketing breakthrough – or a monumental time waster, with people twittering and frittering their lives away with endless updates about what they had for lunch?

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Making Time for Opportunity

Last post I told you about the discipline I needed to get out of bed and fly out west for a business venture.  Here’s the other part of the equation:

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Sucking it Up…

Four years ago I got food poisoning on a Friday in Dallas.  Got so sick I actually couldn’t finish my workshop.  The two flights home were agony.  But I got back in time to go to a memorial service for a friend.

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Listening to Your Intuition

Some people think intuition isn’t real.  I know different.  And so must you.

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Getting Wiser

Some things are so simple that they get overlooked.  What Jim Rohn calls “a blinding flash of the obvious.”  I’d like to talk about one today:

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