Anyone who has driven a vehicle has encountered a driver who has a touch of road rage or is just highly impatient. These are the people who change lanes repeatedly and for no apparent reason. They try to blow through every yellow light they can. They follow dangerously close, hoping you’ll move out of their [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category
Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule. #amazing – Mona’s Posterous.
Business folks put a lot of focus on leads and sales. Sales are important, that’s how you make money, but leads are usually pointless. Think about all the methods you’ve used to generate leads. They probably worked great for creating a list of random names and contact info, but how many sales did they lead [ Read More ]
I’ve been a super hero all my life. It’s surprisingly easy. Super heroes in the comics and cartoons can take a bullet to the chest, crawl on the ceiling, fly. In reality, it’s not that hard. All you have to be able to do is something most others can’t. When we were young, my brother [ Read More ]
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Image via Wikipedia This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Coldwell Banker. All opinions are 100% mine. Many people have developed a culture of thinking small. We lament about stuff we can’t afford. We talk about how broke we are. We make jokes about how messed up our credit is and [ Read More ]
Whatever things you hold onto in your thoughts will be the things you get out of life. I’m talking about your real thoughts, the ones in your subconscious, not the ones in your head as you look at your reflection and chant “I am somebody.” Following from that, there is a serious problem with the [ Read More ]
I have had many different types of jobs in many different fields, but there is one thing that remained consistent from job to job. The manager always acted all brand new when his boss showed up. Suddenly, procedures we had been following at the managers request were “wrong” and the manager admonished us for doing [ Read More ]
Stopping global climate change when it comes to the individual simply boils down to going green. Any actions you can take that help prevent greenhouse gas emissions, physical waste, and wasted energy will help. Going green is really not as annoying as you might think and you don’t have to take things overboard to make [ Read More ]
Image via Wikipedia I started lifting weights at the end of 2007. Since I was about a buck thirty-five soaking wet, I started off doing basic strength training programs. The idea is that you have to build a foundation before you start fine-tuning your physique. To be more specific, you can’t work on defining your [ Read More ]
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr It amazes me how the most important and basic things can fly right under your radar. I recently had a colleague ask me what they should be doing to promote their content. What should they do to get their blog out there? How should they go about creating a [ Read More ]
Image via Wikipedia Sometime last year, I was accidentally listening to the radio. They were talking about a huge job fair here in GA somewhere. Businesses from the airport were featured and the station was interviewing a few people about how things were going. One female complained that there were only fast food jobs there. [ Read More ]
Sometimes we think about personal development and building your brand in terms of the tools we use. We talk about Twitter, FriendFeed, Blogging, Digg, StumbleUpon, and RSS Feeds. The issue with this is that tools are not useful in the wrong hands. Even in the right hands, your tools are useless unless you have raw [ Read More ]
Do you believe that there is a road to success? Some hidden pathway that will take you directly to your lifetime goals? I have heard this term used all the time. I believe I have even used it on this very blog. But, now that I think about it, it just can’t be true. A [ Read More ]
