Category: 3 things I learned
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3 Things I learned last week…1/4-10/2016
To be unclear is to be unkind: I must give proper credit to one of my mentors Dave Ramsey. I heard this statement/quote from him. I have since adopted it. In each of the last five years I have had a theme or even a word or two that would describe my focus for that…
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3 Things I learned last week…12/28/15-1/3/16
What a week last week and it has carried over in to this week. Hence, why I am just getting my weekly learned list out. Dumping is not leading: I will be writing a lot more about some of the recent changes in my career soon, so stay tuned. Here is what I have already learned.…
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3 Things I learned last week…12/21-27/2015
Cherish the time you have. Many of you know this. My father passed away this year suddenly and way too young. This is the first go around for my family and I to go through the Holiday Season without him. I have had many friends reach out to me and ask me how we are…
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3 Things I learned last week…12/14-20/2015
Purpose: Last week I had a great opportunity to meet with a Vice President whose company manages everything related to food and nutrition for senior living facilities. It was a great meeting where I had the chance to learn a lot about their business. This person was very passionate about what they did. Out of…
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3 Things I learned last week…12/7-13/2015
Last week, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend Dale Carnegie’s annual regional convention. So I spent five days in the lovely Scottsdale, Arizona area. Attending a conference such as this one is always such a great experience. The connections you make and the things you learn really gets you pumped up and excited about…
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3 Things I learned last week…11/30-12/6/2015
People like honesty only when they agree with it: Last week I had two conversations where I watched this play out. Picture this: we have all seen this scenario before. A group of employees who are dependent on each other to be successful. Wait a minute, this is all of us, if you work. Right!…
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3 Things I learned last week…11/23-29/2015
Be obsessed: I believe we all know what it feels like to be obsessed with something. Maybe it is a food, an activity, a television program, a person, a job, a book, you name it. The definition for obsessed on the free dictionary online states it like this: having or showing compulsive concern with something. Some…
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3 Things I learned last week…11/16-22/2015
Failing to make a decision is a decision: We all have decisions in our life that we make. Some are easy and some hard. We could all agree that some decisions are really really hard, right? But what are the consequences of not making a decision? What happens when we neglect the inevitable? Here are…
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3 Things I learned last week…11/9-15/2015
Spend time with people with similar goals: Sure I have talked about this before, right? Who you spend your time with determines your success or failure. But this last week it became even more abundantly clear to me why this is true. I had two great meetings last week, and the week before I had…
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3 Things I learned last week…11/2-8/2015
Knowledge advantage: In life there are times when we might be outmatched or outweighed, or things might be stacked up against us. We have all felt this way at one time or another. I know I have. There is one thing that we can all do, that doesn’t require us to be the biggest, the…
Pennies into Fortunes 