Marketing & Sales
Shaking Your Roots Up
While we are still suffering a serious drought here in Atlanta, Spring is budding regardless and my front garden was calling for some care. I needed to replace some decorative kale that didn’t make it this winter and dress the beds around my cherry and plum trees. As I was opening up the soil, and…
Law Full Communication
Recently, I got an unpleasant surprise in the mail. It was a communication from an attorney’s office regarding a fellow speaker’s trademark phrase. I did not use the same phrase in fact but they considered that what I was using was an infringement. I had also taken pains to trademark my phrase. Now, this isn’t…
Know When To Say Next
Have you ever spent time with someone, romantic or just a friend, and simply felt disconnected after parting company? You didn’t have a bad time, but you didn’t really feel like they were paying attention, engaged, and connected. Instead it felt more like they had other priorities but felt the need to fit this kind…
Get Picky or Go Home
Now this may come as a surprise to many of you, but not everyone who enters your shop, calls you on the phone, or emails you as a prospect is actually someone you even want to consider doing business with. You are in charge of selecting your clients! And too often this responsibility is abdicated…
Might vs. Will
What is “might?” Yes, I know it is akin to “maybe” and about as useful. All of us, whether consciously or not, only do, we don’t might or maybe. Every time you use one of these words you are inserting hesitation and doubt into your life, your business, and your intention. Doubt and hesitation are…
Valentine’s Catch Up
3 Cities in 4 Days! No, it isn’t a whirlwind trip to Europe, but it feels about as exotic. This Thursday I head to Vegas to address the Surface Fabrication and Design Expo on Thursday/Friday, and then back to Atlanta late Friday night. Saturday, you can find me at the Cobb Galleria Home Expo with…
Refresh Your Routine
Auspicious beginnings! The year is off to a terrific beginning with speaking engagements being booked regularly, hiring an office manager, and getting my hardback version of Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day into the marketplace. My energy is high and I am attracting great people and great opportunities. I have banished doubt…
Making Adventures A Part of Every Day
Are you stuck in a rut? Do you talk about taking trips, but never go anywhere? Do you yearn to break out of your routine, join a new club or organization, or perhaps simply get involved in one you already belong too, but struggle to find the time? Make adventure a part of every day.…
Finding A Better Way
Japanese grocery stores are much smaller than American grocery stores; watermelons with their round bulky shape took up too much room, a solution was needed. Most people would simply stop carrying watermelons but instead Japanese farmers got creative and found that they could easily and simply grow square watermelons. By placing a box around the…