Why you might be having trouble feeling grateful

I’ve dubbed Wednesdays “Gratitude Wednesday” on Facebook. Every week, my first status of the day on Wednesday is something like “Hooray! It’s Gratitude Wednesday, again.  For what or whom are you grateful today?” A little tardy one week posting this status, I knew people...

Why you must never, ever give up

I know many of your reading this are struggling in your business. You have a service that can really help people to improve the quality of their lives. You’re working hard. Because you are not seeing fruit from your labors, you are naturally discouraged.  Maybe you start to wonder whether this selling...

Why it’s better to be interesting than perfect

Growing up, I had a bad case of trying to be perfect.  Even today, I sometimes catch myself going down that once-familiar path. That’s all fine and dandy, except that “perfect” is impossible. And pretty depressing when you never quite reach the bar. A few years ago, Seth Godin addressed...

How to stop flying by the seat of your pants in your business

I was listening to a Brendon Burchard CD where he described how shocked he was to discover that many entrepreneurs in the Expert Community were pretty disorganized (and a little bit inconsiderate). For example, it isn’t unusual for one of the “gurus” to contact him to ask for his support to...

Lessons from Pygmalion on how to influence the very best outcome in business and in others

When we are out in the world sharing our marketing and sales messages, much of our success (or lack thereof) has more to do with our expectations of future events than whether or not we execute a certain skill set perfectly. You might say that we are prophets of sorts, in that we cause or influence to come...

To uncover your prospects real needs and desires you just need to listen

Have you ever had the feeling that someone or something is trying to tell you something? About 9 months ago, I wrote an article about how we can stand out in the marketplace by cultivating better listening skills. Many would-be sales have been lost because the service provider or sales person offered advice...

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