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Marketing through being rather than doing
One of my colleagues also attended Baeth Davis’s Life Purpose Summit last week and like most people attending live events, she wanted to make some connections that would benefit her business.
She had been to a number of other events in the past and hadn’t made the impact she had hoped, so she was finding herself [...]
Getting high with weeds (This post is not what you think)
Ok, I admit it’s a cheap headline, but I couldn’t resist.
What this post is really about is how being present and aware dramatically changes the quality of our life.
And the kind of weeds I’m referring to is…garlic mustard (a plant that’s not native to this region and is very pretty but destroys the habitat if [...]
Expect that it should be easy, and it’s likely to be
The other day, I had one of those great days where things that I have been fretting over, just got magically solved.
I wasn’t particularly masterful in my actions, but I was in a masterful mood: grateful, aware of the beauty in my environment, and not worried about small things.
Since it’s such a great mindset, it [...]
Caring leadership leads to success
I was just listening to Jay Abraham, one of the most successful marketers and consultants of all time, explaining the basics of his philosophy. (If you’re interested, you can get his free Mini Course here ).
Two of his points are that:
People want to be understood and cared for (you’ve heard me say that enough times)
People [...]
The reason people don’t take the higher ground more often in business
I’m not talking only about blatant ethical breaches, disregard for human decency, or misuse of businesses for self-enrichment.
Even those of us who know better and have a humanitarian and/or spiritual inclination fail to act up to our ideals. For example, we might:
Hold back some information from a team member because we want to retain a [...]
Getting through hard times is easier when you embrace life’s gifts
“People who outlive their prognosis are people who embrace life and everything life brings us.”
That is a quote from an article on cancer survivors in April 2009’s Alive Magazine (Canada’s Natural Health and Wellness Magazine, www.alive.com).
I find this an inspiring statement about how to get through any difficulty, health and otherwise.
Those of us who embrace [...]
The Sky Is Not Falling; Your Job Is Probably Safe
This title is not mine, but was written by Dawn Rivers Baker, the award-winning journalist behind The MicroEnterprise Journal, an online business newsweekly.
In the article (full link follows), she quoted an unemployment statistic that surprised me: in the Great Depression, “only” 24% were unemployed. Now I put the number in quotation marks because I’m sure [...]