I was reading a thread on a personal development forum about Dean Karnazes, an endurance runner. He gives his advice for pushing athletic performance to its limits. A lot of what he says is great advice for our business life. Karnazes says to be audacious. Any goal worth achieving involves risk, he says. We networkers often get stuck in what is called “analysis paralysis.” We find something we think will work, but we want more information. We want to be…
I spent the last 20-plus years as a journalist. I’ve written hundreds of news stories. One thing I learned is that if you want to get the best information, you need to go directly to the source. Someone at a speech can tell you what they think the speaker was trying to say, but you have to go straight to the source for the direct information. I’ve written often about the book, “Success in 10 Steps,” that changed my network…
About six months ago, I was sent a free e-book that has changed my life. The book was written by Michael Dlouhy, who has since become my good friend and a personal mentor. When I read the book, “Success in 10 Steps,” it seemed as though Michael was writing it to me. It was like he knew everything that had happened to me in my network marketing career. He couldn’t have described it any better if I had told him…
Have this ever happened to you: you’re talking to someone, perhaps sharing a matter of deep concern, when you notice they have a far-off look in their eye. When you finish talking the person responds with an odd-sounding anecdote that doesn’t make sense until you realize a slight connection with something you said very early in your remarks. Or worse yet, have you ever been listening to someone when they say something that causes your mind to immediately think of…