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Attitude: Creating Positive Attitude
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Change or Die
Most people have trouble making changes. Even when faced with the choice of ' change or die ' most people are unable to change. I have heard experts say that…
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Your Feelings & Your Bottom Line
Business Leaders : how do you feel when your bottom line is positive, healthy, and growing? When your bottom-line profits are pretty darned good, do you…
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Do Family Business People Have Better Work Ethic?
Here is the thought behind that Question... Recently, I read Jim Estill's CEO blog 1 about work ethic. It reminded me of the stinging little Thought Post I…
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Blinded by our own Brilliance
To what extent are we blinded by our own brilliance? [Of course, I mean our perception of our own brilliance...whether or not we are anywhere near as bright…
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Do you have what it takes to DELIVERS?
Recently, I was listening to an audio book about ' Courage '. When the audio used the words 'Vigilance' and ' Intention ', I wrote those two words in my…
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How Successful People Act
Years ago I was full of fury. At least, that's how one professional assessment described me. While in that state, as a result of a corporate change, I was…
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Emotions - Defined - Positive & Negative
Napoleon Hill practiced and taught emotional control, seeing it as one of the keys to a pleasing and attractive personality. He taught, feelings drive and…
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Positive Mental Attitude - Defined
Napoleon Hill said, " Positive Mental Attitude means your actions and thoughts further your ends ". Hill's definition aligns with Spirited Leaders' concepts…
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Thought Tweet #366
Thought Tweet #366 “Expect the Best and Get It.” Norman Vincent Peale The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet I like the double entendre, despite the likely fact…
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Thought Tweet #365
Thought Tweet #365 Sometimes people do a lot of going through the motions just to keep the status quo. The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Business people go…
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10 Tips to Running Scared
10 TIPS TO RUNNING SCARED: How to do business with a Scarcity Mindset Embrace the Win-Lose Mentality: aim for 100%/0% transactions, always Be Subversive…
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Thought Tweet #357
Thought Tweet #357 Winners embrace ownership of task. The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Winners are self-starters and they embrace delegation and…
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Thought Tweet #356
Thought Tweet #356 Failing isn't pleasant…but it's OK. Figuring out how it happened is better. The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Some experts say, ‘fail…
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4 ways to kill a good idea
As mentioned recently, I read a really interesting book. It taught me how to kill good ideas. Here is a sample of what I learned, 4 ways to kill good ideas …
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Genes, Optimism, & Pessimism
When we are born we are predisposed to be negative or middle-of-the-road or positive. I envision this like a Bell Curve where: 25% of people are genetically…
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Feel that Ooze of Abundance
Most of the successful Leaders we have met with feel the ooze of abundance. They are inspired by competition. They are solution-oriented. They are…
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Neither Donate Nor Collect Negativity
How many times have you heard the saying, 'misery enjoys company' ? Apparently, this is widely-accepted as a fact of the human condition. And, it has been…
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“Running the Business Run”
You: the Leader The Situation: The business is in a start-up mode, or a re-directed mode, and everyone seems to be struggling too much. Preamble: You don’t…
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Doubters don’t build!
I have said and repeated, “ There is no such thing as constructive criticism ”. I have said and repeated, “ Constructive criticism is an oxymoron ”. While…
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There is no scarcity of Scarcity Mindset
That’s not a complaint. It is simply a fact. I know this because I cannot stop myself from observing people, listening to them, and watching how they react…
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Talents
As many of you know, we buy and give away many copies of the book STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 . We do that because we believe the Gallup organization has come up…
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Little Voices, ANTs, Biases, and Robbins
Most normal people hear little voices. Their little voices talk to them constantly. Most people ‘hear’ that little voice in their heads. For most people, the…
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Time, Self & Action Management
While listening to audio book 'The Now Habit At Work ’, it occurred to me the words time management may be stalling people. I mean, most people can not…
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Laziness
People do better when they align their work with their talents and strengths than they do when their work collides with their weaknesses. So - how does being…
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Positive Attitude & Genius: definitions
Positive Attitude means enjoying a predominance of positive emotions and having a predominance of positive thoughts...plus having the ability to replace…
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The Power Of and the Problem With Thinking
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all…
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Stress & emotional resilience – Part 1
For a while now I have wanted to write a paper about workplace stress. I decided, rather than wait to complete it I would write out some preliminary…
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Am I a salesperson?
(The Am I a Sales Person? quiz) Some folks are horrified by the thought they will be placed in a sales role. Some folks are horrified to have the word sales…
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Sales Tweet #116
Sales Tweet #116 Do Not Forget: low self-esteem can easily outmuscle both intelligence and logic. The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet So – keep your eyes and…
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Successful people have more time….sharing another thought
Who is your biggest critic? Who consumes a huge chunk of your time…day after day after day? If you are like the vast majority of us then the answer is… that…