The 3rd C in this series is for communication The quality of your life is in direct relation to the quality of your communication. To be even more specific: The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your internal and external communication! In the last blog, I wrote about confidence and…
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CCC-Clarity, Confidence and Communication – Part 2
On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how would you rate your level of confidence? Go ahead, pick a number now! In the last blog post, I shared the importance of clarity for your goals with you. You must be TRULY clear about what you want and why you want it, so…
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CCC-Clarity, Confidence and Communication – Part 1
In the last blog, I had asked you to check in with yourself and determine whether you are truly making an effort to achieve your goals. Did you write down 5 of your goals that you haven't achieved yet? Today, you get to explore your clarity around your goals that you haven't achieved yet. Many…
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Are you truly making an effort?
I recently joined a chamber of commerce softball league and had our first game just a few days ago. I have played a little more than 20 years ago, and consider myself a bit "out of practice". It was exciting to join the team and my position was in left centerfield.. Focusing on the hitter,…
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Are you engaged?
Are you engaged, or disengaged in your company? Although employee engagement is vital for a business, only about 30% of employees are falling into that category. The remaining disengaged employees are classified in not engaged and actively disengaged. What that means is that the latter of those 2 are actively sabotaging their work and your…
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Establishing Rapport on the Phone
Communication is much more than the words we use. We communicate verbally and non-verbally. Only 7% of our communication is verbally, through the words we use while 93% of our communication is non-verbally through our tonality (38%) and physiology (55%). When talking on the phone, it is important to remember that there is more to…
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Encourage Your Team
I came across this quote this morning: "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." -Philosopher Plato Today, I am asking you to offer encouragement to an employee/team member or co-worker who has made progress in something they are working on. Too many times, it seems that we are taking our employees…
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Be Curious
Being curious means being interested in knowing or learning something new and not settling for the status quo. Innovations and discoveries happen because someone is not settling for how things are being done. Just think about the innovations that you have observed in your lifetime. You probably know about a few companies who went out…
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Sharpen Your Axe
Abraham Lincoln once said “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”. How about you? Have you sharpened your axe lately? “Well, my axe is sharp”, you might say. Yet Abraham Lincoln never said that he’d start out with a dull axe. Maybe he…
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Organize, Delegate and Prioritize
Organize, Delegate and Prioritize Too much to do and too little time. Who hasn’t had the thought come up at some point in their life? As a business owner, entrepreneur, or service professional, we are handling many moving parts pertaining to working in our business and working on our business. Just how do we stay…
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