A Sense of Entitlement….Even on Christmas Day? Really?
We all know now stressful the holiday season can be. Did you get the right present? Will the recipient love it? Is the menu going to satisfy the taste buds of everyone involved ? Even with that and more, most people are grateful for their families and their friends. It’s wonderful to be sharing this […]
Shopping For A Candidate
Everywhere you look, listen or read the elections are in front of you. Everyone has a different opinion as to which candidate should hold the highest position in our country. More than that though, the focus seems to be on the “Gender Gap” In one article it stated that if only women voted they would […]
The Best Label To Put On A Child
Recently I was asked to be on CW33 TV to talk about my favorite label for a child- “Kidpreneurs” (Check out the video here!) Imagine a child that has entrepreneurial tendencies and can monetize that? Pretty powerful I would say! I did a lot of research about how kids can make money and spoke to some “experts” in the field. I […]
“You Won’t Like Me When We Are Finished”
… That’s how my strategy session began. Not very comforting I would say. In truth, I trusted this friend and if I wasn’t ready to hear the harsh truth, I wouldn’t have asked for his help. So we began by defining a few categories, those that brought in money and those that didn’t, what absolutely […]
Courage To Fail
How many times have you thought you had a great idea, but were so sure you were the only one who would agree with you? Or perhaps you wanted to meet someone but were to afraid that they wouldn’t want to meet you back? More often than not we decide not to try something new […]
Hang On
So you are considering starting a new business, or perhaps adding a new program or maybe bringing someone in to work with you. You have a “plan” and on paper it is perfect….then reality sets in. Am I talking to you or has that just happened to me? For the past 9 months I have been working […]
5 Unexpected Sources of Inspiration
Have you ever had something looming over your head? A project, a report, or even a blog post??? What inspires you to get it done? Sometimes it’s the deadline and sometimes it’s feeling that sense of accomplishment. I get my inspiration from many different areas. Here are 5 unexpected sources of inspiration for me. Hopefully […]
TWIST on IWYS
Don’t let the Acronym filled title throw you off! Wanted to quickly share a video that the creative people at I Wear Your Shirt put together to help announce my latest project Sales Training With A TWIST. They also wrote a blog post about it! Now, the project has not fully launched yet, but anyone […]
How To Get Your Groove Back!
Have you even been faced with a situation that has just zapped all your energy? Could be personal, could be professional. What do you do? You can’t stay under your blankies for too long. After all, how do you explain that to your mortgage company or utilities? I had been going along excited and happy […]
So What’s Next?
As we get into the craziness of the holidays, we seem to let things go and blame it on the craziness of the holidays…there is a pattern here. For me, I have been lax on my blog posts because after all, isn’t everyone too busy to read what I have to say? I decided this […]
Are You In Transition?
According to dictionary.com, transition is “movement, passage, or change from one position, state,stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.” It seems there is an awful lot of people in transition these days. The most common form seem to be those in a career transition. Either they have been promoted right out of […]
Women Do It Three Times More Than Men
I was honored to be asked to guest blog for Kim Duke-The Sales Divas. I decided to write about ONE of the many differences between men and women…So what do women do three times more than men…. Ask questions! Every action, every moment of every day is taken only after DOZENS of questions have been […]