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A Customer’s Roadmap: Are You Providing One?

Roadmaps used to be a necessity to get to unfamiliar places, but now with an app on your phone those maps seem pretty unnecessary and outdated. Remember MapQuest? Yeah, I’m still hanging onto some ancient directions in my car’s console. Well, guess what? Your customers need a roadmap too. If you want to avoid frustration…

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Prioritizing Your Focus in the Everyday

Finding your priorities in your everyday living can be a challenge, but not impossible. While there are often things that come up that are beyond your control, it’s important to remember the things within your control. Priorities are one of those things. Priorities are one of the things within your control. #prioritizedfocus If your daily…

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What’s the best approach to keep from abandoning your goals?

The best approach toward your goal is always the one that works with your reality. But you’ve got to be honest with yourself if you’re planning based on your ideal reality or your actual reality. Mixing up your realities is not a best approach to goal getting and will create confusion. Confusion leads to goal…

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Plan in color to increase your focus & productivity

Do you plan in color? Color coding your plans is more than making your calendar look organized and pretty. Used effectively, it can be one of your best strategies when it comes to executing those colorful plans!  And yes, a plan is different than a strategy. While I could give you a whole lesson on…

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Mood Mayhem Busters So You’ll Keep Your Focus

You’ll know you’re suffering from mood mayhem if you find yourself telling people you’re in this weird funk. One that you can’t quite put your finger on, but has you thinking things like, “I’m ready to rock this plan and get after it!” and the very next minute, questioning yourself with, “why bother?” Ever been…

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Creating your mmm, good business in 5 steps

If you recognize mmm, good as a slogan from Campbell’s soup, then a) you’ve been around awhile, and b) they’ve done their job when it comes to marketing their business. Although the campaigns and even spellings of mmm, good have changed over the years, the slogan has not. As a matter of fact, that slogan…

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DIY Goal Getting – There May Be Better Options

Do It Yourself. DIY goal getting is something most have a love-hate relationship with. I mean, how often do you mismatch your DIY goal ambition with your expectations? Listen, having less than splendid results in your DIY endeavors is not necessarily a bad thing. As long as you learn something, it’s still progress. DIY goal…

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Choosing the right team for goal getting season

It’s time to choose a team, it’s New Goal Season, baby! The desires and motives have been set for your next great achievement! Reflection and Accomplishment are the names of this season’s top teams and with the flip of the calendar, it is game time.  These teams could become respected adversaries or just the next…

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New Year, New You – Again?

‘Tis the season and time of year to . . . evaluate your whole life based on a review and assessment of your currently closing last year. It sounds ridiculous, yet year after year, when the calendar is about to roll over, “new year, new life” is the mantra that’s top of mind and agendas.…

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Does your dream have the right GPS?

Having the right GPS is necessary if you ever hope to make progress toward your dreams whether in your faith, life, or business. Everyone has a GPS these days. They’re built into our smartphones and our cars (unless your car is as old as mine – who knew 2012 was “ancient”?) We rarely go anywhere these days…

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