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Month: November 2008

Personal connections — Relational business-building

Personal connections — Relational business-building

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Earlier today a friend of mine was talking about her son’s decision about which college to attend. I paid close attention because my oldest daughter is about to go through the same process. Seems my friend and her son visited three schools. There were a number of reasons behind his choice, but one of the biggest was the visit to that school. During the visit the school representative went out of his way to make them feel welcome. The prospective…

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Business boost — build relationships

Business boost — build relationships

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Earlier today I was putting our riding lawn mower in the shed. My son had mowed the front yard for probably the last time this year. The boards that we usually use to help the mower ride up into the shed were missing, but I thought I could just drive the mower over the ridge between the ground the concrete floor of the shed. I was wrong. The mower got part of the way in the shed and stopped. I…

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Feel better – Shaving the years away

Feel better – Shaving the years away

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Recently, I did something I haven’t done it years – I shaved my entire face. Since then, nearly everyone who sees the “new” me, asks me why. I can explain in one quick sentence: I was tired of looking old. You the hair on the top of my head remains mostly black. My moustache and beard, however, were gray. I once had a friend who hadn’t seen me in a while ask me if I was coloring my hair. I…

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Pathway to success – change for the better

Pathway to success – change for the better

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I recently heard an excellent presentation about making the most of our talents. It included this old proverb: “If you want to know what you’re doing in the future, tell me what you’re doing right now.” As I thought about it, the wisdom of the statement stuck with me. So often we go through life hoping things will get better. But if we want our lives to change for the better, we have to change for the better. I’ve also…

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Business skills — Practice leads to success

Business skills — Practice leads to success

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The other day, I was listening to a college football game while I was driving home. One of the announcers pointed out that the statistics were pretty even, but one team was winning because its players had made athletic plays at the right times. It occurred to me that the same idea applies to business in general and network marketing in particular. Many people work hard at MLM, but never seem to get ahead. They’re as busy as people who…

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Strong business model – So good, I can’t wreck it

Strong business model – So good, I can’t wreck it

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Recently, I was in a car accident. It wasn’t very bad by most standards, but it still shook me up, literally and pyschologically. I was sitting at a stop light when someone ran into the back of me, knocking my car into a pick-up truck in front of me. Since then I’ve had some relatively minor health challenges, but I also had to make some other challenges. For one, my car was totalled. I had a rental for a while,…

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