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A key step to reach your goals and dreams

A key step to reach your goals and dreams

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Are you having trouble reaching your goals or dreams? Here’s an essential step to start moving in the right direction. In basketball and other sports, madness often reigns among fans. Those who closely follow a team might often wonder why certain players don’t play during games. Most likely, the coach knows best. When my children were young, they played a lot of sports. Occasionally they would complain about not playing more in games. I always had the same response: the…

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Look up for a new, better perspective

Look up for a new, better perspective

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I love to run. This is a rather recent feeling. In my younger days, I thought people who ran were crazy. Why would anyone just go running? Then a few years ago, I promised my daughter that I would run in a 5K race with her. I’m not sure what made me make the commitment. It was just after she had completed a Thanksgiving Day race near our house. For some reason, I told her after she finished that I…

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The best five years? The next five years

The best five years? The next five years

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A few years ago I was talking with someone close to me. He was lamenting the fact that he had spent what he saw as his “best five years” working for a guy who used him up and spit him out. Without thinking I said, “Those weren’t your best five years. Your best five years are your next five years.” I’ve tried to remember that insightful moment since then. Way too often we waste time thinking about what might have been….

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Four Things Marketers Should Be Able To Say

Four Things Marketers Should Be Able To Say

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A post on Benjamin Fitts’ blog called “12 Things We Should Be Able To Say” is worth reading for anyone who wants to get ahead in life, but is particularly applicable to network marketers. Fitts said he copied the information from Jay McHugh’s newsletter, but I did not see it on McHugh’s site. I heard about Fitts’ post through John Milton Fogg’s Facebook page. Fogg is author of the networking classic, “The Greatest Networker in the World,” which every networker…

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Persistence, Patience and Power

Persistence, Patience and Power

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I’m constantly amazed at the places that potential learning opportunities pop-up. I often drive down a country road near a Civil War battlefield. I usually find the rural scenery relatively relaxing. One day, I happened to notice something that I had somehow missed on all my previous trips by the fields along the road. Right in the middle of one of the fields stood a tree. It was only about 25 or 30 feet tall, but I was nevertheless taken…

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Jim Rohn: The qualities of skillful leadership

Jim Rohn: The qualities of skillful leadership

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(NOTE — Jim Rohn, one of the great personal development philosophers of our time and one of my favorite motivational authors, died today. Below is one of his many articles that influenced me. It is reprinted in his honor.) If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a…

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Social network marketing: Beyond business, build community

Social network marketing: Beyond business, build community

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NOTE — This is the tenth in a series on social network marketing. All the posts in the series can be found here. At its best, social network marketing leads to the formation of a community. You have to do more than just provide advice on how to get income. Your worth should be measured in friendship not dollars. The business objective of making money must be put aside so you can focus on bringing together a committed group of…

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