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The Four Levels of Networking Awareness

Mar 29, 2019

In talking to people and working with my clients, I’ve identified four basic levels of Networking Awareness.  Can you identify where you are based on the descriptions below? You don’t know what you don’t know.  You’re unaware that you could...

Powerful – yet simple – advice on living and connecting well

Jan 29, 2019

Every year I re-do the big bulletin board in my office; the one my friend Cindy had made for me several years ago.  It’s three-and-a-half feet tall and four-and-a-half feet wide. Huge and surrounded by a magnificent frame, much like the kind you’d put...

What don’t you want?

May 10, 2018

“Of all the ideas you’ve ever had,” he said, “that’s one of ’em.”  That was his kind way of telling me I had hit rock bottom with an idea. I was thrilled. This was years ago when I was a freelance copywriter and marketing...

Who’s on your Twenty Percenter list? And why?

Mar 20, 2017

In many of my presentations I speak about applying the Pareto Principle (a.k.a. the 80:20 Rule, the Law of the Vital Few, and – most amusing – the Life Isn’t Fair Law). The application of this little axiom suggests a way of being more intentional –...

Don’t take the shortcut

Aug 26, 2015

Things like this have never made sense to me:  Crash diets. Fitness boot camps. Write-your-book-in-one-weekend seminars. And people who network as if there will be no tomorrow. Allow me to elaborate. Crash diets: They just make you miserable. You feel deprived and...