Category: Leadership-Motivation!
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Choices…
Choice, not circumstances, determines ones success. You have to be ready and willing to act. Are you?
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Schedule time to play…
John Cleese, an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and best known for co-founding Monty Python, is also an incredible motivational speaker. In one of the great underseen talks of the Internet, actor John Cleese delivers a brilliant speech on how to foster creative thinking. We all need to set aside time from our…
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Change your daily focus…
Have you ever sat down and calculated how much time you spend checking and responding to emails, texts and voicemails at work? With smartphones, it’s not uncommon to feel like your job is email! This can put you in a vicious downward cycle of inefficiency – a message, even if it’s not urgent, will suck…
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The American Dreamer
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability and achievement.” – James Truslow Adams The Founding Fathers put into law the revolutionary idea that each person’s desire to pursue happiness was not just self-indulgence, but…
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Increasing lifetime value
“Provide outstanding service today and your clients will be yours for a lifetime.” Consider the “lifetime value” of a customer (we’ll use the mortgage industry for our example because I’m currently in that business): his next refinance, her network of colleagues also in the market for a home, the agents in the transaction. These are…
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Customize the Experience
I’m in the mortgage business so I will frame this discussion from that perspective. However, this applies to any service related business. Good, sound sales advice works regardless of the industry you’re in…:-) For most clients, a home purchase is one of the most emotionally charged, exciting and confusing experiences of their lives. Whenever a…
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The Value of Value, part #2
When you focus on adding more value to your organization (or client) than you take in payment, two things happen. Yesterday we talked about making yourself consistently and permanently employed. Today, we’ll talk about placing yourself in a prime position to rise to levels of greater potential. This happens not because you’re a nice person, or…
Living Life by Design 