Worried about being too salesy?

Change Your Focus If you have a business, then you know you have to sell something.   It might be a class that you teach… Or a product that you create… Or coaching that you do. I know a lot of entrepreneurial wannabes, that would rather eat dirt than sell something–even though they desperately want…

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Clarity

And Why It Matters Prior to each coaching session with a client, I send a clarity tool to complete and return to me beforehand.  In a recent session, a client told me what a struggle it is for her to complete the tool each time. “You should write a blog about that form,” she said.…

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3 Mistakes You Might Be Making in Sales

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When You Think You Are Doing the Right Thing Every entrepreneur that I talk with would like to increase sales. Increasing sales means making more money. Increasing sales means being able to serve more people and have a bigger impact in the world. However, when our goal is to increase sales without carefully planning and…

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Should you Celebrate Failure?

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Should you Question Success? Success is a word that is discussed and thrown around a lot. Failure?  Not so much. Teachers focus on making sure students are successful.  Businesses work to achieve goals in order to be successful.  Everyone wants to be successful in their career, family life, social life and even in their spiritual…

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What would your future self say?

Let your Future Self Advise You Are you glad January is over? All the over achievers have retreated along with their advice on goal setting and how to make this year the best one ever. It can be overwhelming.  Maybe now you can just get back to work as you wait for sanity to return…

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Got a BIG decision to make?

Wondering what to do? Is it keeping you up at night? Have you been tiptoeing around it for days… weeks even? Are you hoping that a sign will appear, someway, somehow that will give you some direction? Sounds like you are stuck. Here’s the problem: when you don’t make a decision that is looming over…

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Focus now: Overcoming distractions

How to regain focus in your life The human brain was made to notice distractions.  This probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you if you live in our technology driven world.  The ping of a text message, the lure of a new Facebook post and the pull of unread emails can disrupt even the…

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Five Tips to Tap Into Your Creative Spirit

We All Are Creative Every creative is challenged with how to best structure their life to engage in creative pursuits. Just how do you get the work done? How do you tap into that creative spirit? Do you require yourself to spend a designated amount of time every day working on your craft, no matter…

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Does your workplace bring out the best?

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Here’s the workplace fix According to US and global Gallup polls about 89% of workers don’t feel that they can be their best at work and 70 % are not engaged at work.  What this means is that an overwhelming majority of the workforce is not involved in or committed to their work while about…

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Employee behavior hacks that work

Why a Crucial Conversation is the Answer If you are a leader and have the responsibility of coordinating a team or a department or even a group of volunteers, I bet you have someone in the group who is a challenge… maybe they show up late and leave early-repeatedly maybe they are bossy and no…

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