What Customers Are Saying Behind Your Back
Have you ever heard a digital marketer say… ‘You should give away your best content for free.’ When I first heard this advice, I thought, ‘Duh!’ ‘You’d be crazy not to give away your best content for free.’ ‘After all, if you show someone your best content, how can they…
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How to Lead Your Family and Team to Legendary Success
In 1999, the Manchester United soccer team produced one of the greatest championship seasons in sport, winning what was known as The Treble (finishing in first place in the domestic league, capturing the F.A. Cup, and winning the European Cup tournament). They did it all in dramatic fashion, winning the…
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Why Being Uncomfortable Means You’re on the Right Path
Discomfort is often confused with unhappiness. Unhappiness is terrifying. So, we cope with unhappiness by filling our lives with busy-ness, with things, or even flat out ignoring its existence. Sometimes we even do all three — for years! But discomfort does not equal unhappiness. Rather, it is a vital signal…
READ MOREFollow in the Footsteps of Powerful Women to Find Your Inner Strength
Women’s History Month serves as a great opportunity to reflect on the impressive achievements of women who no doubt faced trials and roadblocks that could have stopped their dreams in their tracks. But they didn’t — women like Cleopatra, Margaret Fuller, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Billie Jean King, Oprah…
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3 Ways to Remove Stress at Its Roots
There isn’t a working person among us who doesn’t deal with stress — whether you’re an entrepreneur, a freelancer, working for a struggling startup, or clocking in working for a company, work stress is inevitable. But where does this stress originate, and how do we deal with it? Most guides…
READ MOREHow to Create and Live Your Perfect Day
When I think about my Perfect Day, I’m reminded of this quote by Paulo Coelho: “Live simply, dream big, be grateful, give love, laugh lots!” How do you define your Perfect Day? What would you do, who would you do it with, and how would you feel? Ask most people…
READ MOREThe Only Goal That Really Matters
Blog Stats: 50,017 hits. Heart thumping, palms sweating, I sit back on my creaky wooden chair, stare at my blog, and grimace. Is this real? I click Refresh, scrunch my face, and look at the screen again. Blog Stats: 50,792 hits. Seven hundred people visited my blog in the last…
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How to Deeply Connect With Anyone
August 27, 2000 was one of the most important days of my life. I was loving my newfound independence and soaking in my second day of orientation at NYU. Little did I know that I would meet my future wife that evening. A group of guys I was with connected…
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Take These 4 Vital Steps When Disaster Strikes
You reach for the mug and knock it over. Hot coffee washes over your laptop. You arrive home and realize you’ve left your shoulder bag — with all your IDs and banking information — on the subway. Your doctor reads your EKG and says, “Gee, I’ve never seen anything like…
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What Else Are You Going to Do?
My mother’s sacrifices kept me out of jail. I truly believe that. She spent years working night and day at her low paying job before coming home each night and practically raising two children on her own. This meant she was constantly putting off taking care of herself. Her sacrifice,…
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Making Your Ideas Soar
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank Think about how many good ideas you have had or been a part of in the past, either in casual conversation, in business meetings, or at conferences and trade shows.…
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Why the Best is Always Hard to Find
It’s totally messed up if you think about it. There are millions of people out there dying to be writers. Yet when a good writer puts together a book proposal (that is, a potential book), publishers actually bid against each other for the privilege of publishing it. And before you…
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