May 16, 2014

You know you’re an email addict when…

You know you’re an email addict when: You check your email before going to the bathroom in the morning You click the “Get Mail” or “Send/Receive” button even after it says “No new messages,” just in case You peek at your emails ...

May 15, 2014

How to take the sting out of rejection [podcast]

I can get pretty excited about a new idea. That is, until I tell it to a critic. The humorist Franklin Jones once said, “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or ...

May 14, 2014

Your most impressive creation

You’re creative. You may not call yourself a creative type, but don’t think for a moment you aren’t. Sure, you may not be artsy. You may not be a painter or a pianist or a writer. But you create ...

May 12, 2014

Don’t be creepy. 10 questions to know if you’re a scope creeper

Scope creep. Project managers know it well. It’s when the expected outcome of work expands well beyond the original agreement. It happens often in business and too often in our personal lives. We enlist others on our idea or ...

May 11, 2014

A simple gift for the moms in your life

A simple habit for the noble moms in your life

Today is Mother’s Day, in case somehow that message hasn’t yet reached you. The National Restaurant Association reports that more than 80 million of us will eat out today, more than any other day of the year. And more than ...

May 9, 2014

Venturing 101 for new college grads

Congratulations graduate. You did it. You’ll hear those words a lot on graduation day, followed by the inevitable, “What’s next?” That question might provoke excitement as you eagerly share your grand plans or anxiety or even discouragement if ...

May 8, 2014

How to network like a pro [podcast]

Does the idea of networking like a pro offend you? Perhaps you think of that networking meet-up you attended and vowed never to return to again. You’re done wasting your time on a roomful of desperate business people with ...

May 7, 2014

The measure of your day

How do you measure the success of your day? By how much you got done? How much fun you had? Whether you met an interesting person? How about by what you gave away? Or rather, how much of yourself ...

May 5, 2014

Why I’m launching the Dream Intensive Mastermind

Let’s face it. Most of us have more ideas than we could ever hope to accomplish in one lifetime. I even created a tee-shirt to express that creative angst. Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote: “Many people die with their music ...

May 1, 2014

How to create your personal mission statement [podcast]

Successful businesses have mission statements. And successful people do too. That’s not to say that you can’t be successful without one. But it’s much harder. To paraphrase Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland, “If you don’t know where you’re going, ...

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