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Actually all of life is. Yesterday, I was interviewed for the Live Rich, Spread Wealth tele summit. She asked me what is one thing I wanted to share with people about what it takes to be successful. Life is a contact sport Not in the aggressive, competitive sense, but in the you can’t get results…
Maya Angelou has a great quote: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” It plays out in so many areas of our lives. The other night I woke up at 1am to hear Alex calling for me.…
There are endless networking events out there. You can easily fill your calendar morning, noon and night going from one event to another. Many of them are a lot of fun, but you still need to give yourself time to actually work. So how do you filter through the endless list to know which are…
As I head out to teach a class in Oregon today and then Washington DC next week for the Women’s Council of Realtors meetings it seems like the perfect time to focus on building your internal network. Your internal network is the one within your own industry. Whenever I bring this up it seems to…
It’s spring! The real estate market is heating up and chances are, so is your social schedule. Both of our boys play baseball and between their game schedules, vacations, conferences, local events and the general spring fever of wanting to get out and enjoy the weather, life is getting busy. You may not have kids…
I was reading the Wallace D Wattles book,” Promote Yourself” yesterday and this line really stood out. If you are not familiar with Wallace D. Wattles, he wrote the book, “The Science of Getting Rich” over 100 years ago and is still quoted today for the wisdom available in his books. You can download a…
Rule #1 in Sales: Make it easy for them to say yes to you. Before someone buys anything: a house, a car, a pair of shoes, they hire someone to work with. Yes, even in today’s online shopping world this is still relevant. Buyers are choosing a sales person, a web site, or a brand…
Leverage is a major buzz-word in business. It usually means hiring more people so that you can serve more clients, get more done and make more money. On the one hand it’s a no brainer. On the other, it’s one of the biggest sources of stress and stagnation that businesses face. Why is that? Leveraging…
As I prepare to give a talk tomorrow to a group of middle school and high school girls on self confidence and being successful in life it makes me realize that every now and then we need to be reminded that we are amazing, even as adults. Here is one of my all time favorite…
I’ve done a lot of values and branding exercises over the years. You know, the ones that start with a long list of words, and then have you answer a series of questions and eliminate words. The goal is to end up with either a single word or your top three that define you. For…