8 Negotiation Skills Small Business Owners Should Know An often overlooked skill in small business is negotiation. Your business will need to interact and make deals with other businesses and sometimes shrewd high end customers or clients to succeed. If you lack the proper negotiation skills, you will continue to be on the losing end […]
What’s important
How Well Do You Know What is Important (Update) This was one of my first blog posts. This is not important, but to note, it was still on the “hello world” post that comes with WordPress. I decided to give it a new home and a little updating. The message is what is important. A […]
Love Your Spouse Challenge
If you’re on Facebook it’s a fair bet that you’ve seen this post in your news feed. Heck, some of you may have been tagged into the post directly or are guilty of tagging others. You know the one I’m talking about – “I was challenged by so-n-so to complete the Love Your Spouse Challenge.” Each […]
Coaching from a Star Trek Movie
How This One Line in Star Trek Beyond Rocked My World and Can Rock Yours Too I want to start by saying that I am a Trekie. I loved watching the original Star Trek on television with Leonard Nimoy (RIP) and William Shatner. And no, I didn’t get into the Next Generation or Voyager because […]
Skills for Success: 11 tips to becoming a better listener
Being an effective listener Being an effective listener is one of the most important life skills you can master in order to advance your career, build a successful business and build meaningful relationships. Most people believe they are good listeners because they have been doing it their entire life, but mastering the skills of listening […]
Don’t Ever Let Anyone Tell You You Can’t Do Something
Don’t Ever Let Anyone Tell You You Can’t Do Something Have you ever been told you can’t do something? A little different motivation today. Sorry the audio is a bit off, but the words are more important than the scene. Remember don’t be the dark cloud that rains on other people’s joyful parade of hopes […]
Because I Choose To
Decision Making “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. These famous words written by Robert Frost bring to light my topic today–Decision Making. Actually more specifically identifying there is a decision to make and identifying our choices. The days of simply […]
Seek and Ye shall not Find
I discovered an amazing teacher that has taught me to look at how I view the world and how I engage every aspect of it. Now, like most of my learning, the lessons I learn rarely become evident as my teacher is speaking, but rather after I have had time to process what I have […]
Tell ’em What You Want – Expectations
Tell ’em What You Want, What you Really Really Want A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations. ~Patricia Neal I have had several discussions in the past week regarding communicating expectations. An essential element to good communication and relationships is knowing what your expected or […]