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Why Shouldn't I Go It Alone?
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his friend. But if alone, who will help you get back up when you fall. In Hebrews 3:13, it states: Encourage one another daily. And which of us does not want/need daily encouragement?

More Faith - The Goal of Persistence
Acquiring more faith in our core mission as an entrepreneur demands we exercise the discipline of persistence in pursuit of our hearts desire. The one who perseveres longest, believes strongest in what they are doing and where they are going.

How Leadership and Corporate Culture Impact Profitability

Turns out leadership isn't just a feel good thing. It drives the bottom line. A constructive culture is one where there is a sense of achievement, challenge, growth, encouragement and humanistic relationships. Organizations with a constructive culture had consistently higher profit margins. Aggressive cultures (very task/numbers driven without support/encouragement) have the most erratic profit margins.

How Important Is Encouragement To A Home Business Owner?
In successful businesses, systems are in place to ensure the morale of the employees is kept at a high level. When the home business owner needs encouragement where do they go? In reality they need encouragement which means they should find it somewhere if it isn't in place, or establish a system themselves. Regular encouragement is necessary for all aspects of life, business especially.

Inspiring People for Maximum Productivity

It is amazing to learn and witness an ordinary teacher inspire average students for outstanding performance. There are numerous outstanding coaches who were never star players in their day. And there are the average employees who became leaders and turned organizations around-on the positive side. What one sees among these leaders, regardless of their background, is individuals with a vision, burning desire to turn that vision into reality, ability to communicate that vision to others in a way that inspires positive attitude, determination and action from the listeners.

Lesson #1: Be Fierce

“Always look out for yourself,” says Trump. Never one to back down from a challenge, Trump has made a career out of being ruthless when it came to his business. Trump realized early on that he would only reach the heights of success of which he dreamed if he was willing to tackle whatever or whoever stood in his way. He took no prisoners when it came time to make a deal and did whatever it took to get the job done.

Breaking Free: Branson’s Early Years
“I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur,” says Richard Branson. At 56, despite his intentions, Branson has become one of the most successful and eccentric billionaires of the 20th century. He is the man behind one of the most recognizable brands in history and is sitting on an estimated fortune of $3.2 billion.

The Birth of Diddy: Sean Combs Makes His World Debut
Born on the dangerous streets of Harlem and exposed to violence at an early age, the odds were stacked against Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy, from day one. Nobody believed he would amount to much, let alone go on to become one of the most successful and well-known musicians, producers and entrepreneurs of our time.

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Lesson #3: Find Inspiration Around You

Despite his ability to create fantasy worlds and invent creatures the likes of which the world has never seen before, the secret inspiration behind Spielberg’s films is actually his everyday life. From his own childhood experiences to his current fatherhood role, Spielberg takes ordinary events and turns them into extraordinary tales. This is one of the key reasons why Spielberg’s films have been such a success. However out-of-this-world the stories he tells may be, there is always a unique simplicity in their messages.

The Top
You are at the top when . . .

Marriage

As the 10th of 12 children, my older brothers and sisters obviously got here many years before I did. Two of my older brothers and two of my older sisters had failed marriages. Since I was at the bottom of the production chain, my younger brother and I had the benefit of what my mother had observed and taught us. She pointed out that we should never date a girl more than once or twice if we discovered we would be unwilling to have her as the mother of our children and be unwilling to take her wherever we were and introduce her with pride to anyone. I listened intently to what my mother had to say. I chose carefully.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Fred Karl, designer of the Viking range and owner of that company said, "I was a weird kid—I began designing towns when I was 12." We all know that "weird" can be good, if we don't judge others through our lens ... Being weird increases creativity if we allow it to flourish. Fred Karl, founder of Viking Range, let his weirdness flourish abundantly.

In Summary...

I've been working on various forms of my Master Presentation, pretty much fulltime, for the last couple of weeks. A Post yesterday started a rather vigorous discussion about success "rules" that withstand the test of time. Virtually nothing—you, me, the corporation, the nation—withstands the test of time. And one of the principal reasons is hardening of the philosophical arteries—increasingly rigid interpretations of yesterday's "success" rules.

Doing Better Than Good!
People frequently ask me, “How can I know when I am doing better than good?” I thought about that question and came up with 15 ways to measure yourself. Take a look and see what you think:

If you could change your life
...would you? Getting into Stanford Business School changed my life. In college, I trained to be a mediocre engineer (I didn't set out to be mediocre at it, but I sure was). I was on track to become Dilbert.

Leaders Are Communicators

There is an old saying, “That which can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.” This resolution, passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi, in the mid-1800s brings that into focus. “Number one: Resolved by this Council that we build a new jail. Number two: Resolved that the new jail be built out of the materials of the old jail. Resolved that the old jail be used until the new jail is finished.”

Money Ain’t the Only Motivator
What can you do to retain your best employees when money isn't available? Is encouragement enough in a down market?

Showing Appreciation - Learning From Watching Your Team
One of the simplest management tactics you can use to build trust and positive morale is where you find a small amount of time in your day to appreciate your people.

The Stars Among Us-How to Find Them!
In recent economic times, many have been asked to get better results with fewer resources. Here is a quick and easy way to do so. Find the superior performers among the average!

Why Professional Experience Hinges on Personal Value
The personal value attached to the people you do business with directly affects your professional experience. Treating others with the same respect and dignity you’d expect isn’t the bench mark in business. Try treating complete strangers as though they were your closest friends and you’ll immediately become valuable to them.

Responsibility
As kids we are expected to take more responsibility as we mature. It starts with the basics, like getting dressed and tidying our room and moves on to contributing around the house and so on.

In Praise of Praise
Why do we spend so much on using money as a motivator when there is a free motivational tool available to us? Giving praise is one of the most powerful motivators you can use -- if you do it right. This article shows you how.

Do You Have Permission to Excel?

Your current abilities depend largely on how you experienced four important developmental factors as a child in relation to your budding skills. These four factors, Permission, Promotion, Protection and Power greatly influence the feelings we have about various skills whether it be joy, fear or even dread. The skills that inspire power and strength are most likely to bring the most joy and fulfillment and are worth your happiness to discover and develop.

First Step
Her adventures have only just begun. I'm so excited for her. I can't wait to see where all she goes from here

Razban Golden Rule 1: The 10% that Changes 90% in Empowering Managers
The 10% can over come 90% concept is desribed here as a trusted way of empowering managers to succeed.

Management actions that speak louder than words

Do as I say, not as I do. This doesn't seem to work in parenting and it doesn't work in business either. Communication, despite knowing it to be a problem, continues to be a challenge in most organizations. Typical results-driven managers mistakenly feel that once they have said something once, everyone should have heard and understood the message and be willing to implement immediately. In the absence of plentiful and repeated communication, most messages in an organization are communicated non-verbally through the actions observed. In fact these non-verbal messages define the organization's culture over time. Here we identify four management actions that transmit plenty of information to the organization about what is valued and not valued.

How A Group Of Frogs Traveling Through The Woods Turned Into A Powerful Story About Developing Leaders
Two lessons from this story: 1. Words have the power of life and death: a destructive word will rob someone of their spirit while a positive word speaks possibility and encouragement. 2. Anyone can speak destructive words, but it takes the power of a leader to speak life.

The Two-Word Secret Weapon to Effective Leadership
“Performance Management” is a term coined by Dr. Aubrey Daniels in the late 1970s to describe a technology for managing, both behavior, and results, the two critical elements of what is known as performance. As an entrepreneur and a leader it is critical in your business.

Speakers, Coaches, and Experts: Write to Sell During a Recession
Money is tight, but that doesn’t mean people don’t need you and your solutions. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that the people in your market need the guidance and insight you provide now more than ever. But in a recession, it takes a little more encouragement to get people to help themselves by buying your products and services. In other words, you may need to fine-tune your marketing.

It’s been a month with no sales! Do I sack my sales manager?
A sales manager, or more appropriately, 'sales leader' is a key leadership role in any sales driven organisation. That means sacking your sales leader, more often than not, also means bleeding intellectual property (IP) to your key competitors. Moreover, an emotionally charged ex-sales leader may even take some of your sales team and clients with them. Ouch!

Managers - Put That Stick Away!
Truly acknowledge how important and valuable your people are to you. Treat them well and they will help you ride out this recession and be ready, with you, when the upturn arrives, as it surely will!

How to Increase Sales With Questions That Seek Greater Clarity to Gain Greater Specificity
Do you every ask dumb questions to move the sales process forward? If not, maybe this article may show you how dumb questions should be part of your sales skills and sales toolbox.

Does YOUR Elevator Take People Up?
Who doesn't enjoy receiving kudos for a job well done, or good effort put forth, but how often do we think to dole them out to others. It's easy to get caught up in the flurry of work and home activities, and checking off the to-do list; taking dear family and friends a bit for granted.

5 Wicked Ways To "What If" Your Business
Dive into the game of What If. It's easy. You just say What If....and then you mention the opposite of what you're currently doing. Ie/ What If I could work from home and earn full time money? What If I could make my dream business work? What If what I'm doing right now isn't the right fit? What If I could happily earn over $100,000 a year?

Tips for Staying Up in a Down world
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your life circumstances or from all the hardship and tragedy you hear about in the daily news? For many, the challenge of rising above the pain and discouragement of life is very difficult. Although you can not eliminate grief and disappointment from your life, the tips below can help you in your effort to stay up in a down world.

The Power of Expectation
I want to share a truth that was first revealed to me by my mother when I was a child, then later reinforced through my own life experiences: What you expect has phenomenal power over the quality and course of your life.

Buddying Up
You're ready to make some changes. You've decided to pursue your passion, change directions, and jump right in. You have a wonderful coach who keeps you on course through weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly session, but somewhere in between scheduled sessions you find yourself faltering. Are you looking for a way to stay on course daily?

Who Cares?
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. This applies to employees, children, students, a volunteer committee – whoever sees you as a leader. Caring meets one of six fundamental human needs, that when fulfilled, are teams can achieve Passionate Performance.

The Power of Hope

Did you know that the bumblebee should not be able to fly? Based on its size, weight, and shape of its body in relationship to the total wing span, a flying bumblebee is aerodynamically impossible. The bumblebee, being ignorant of scientific data, goes ahead and flies anyway, making honey every day. Ignore the sting of the past and replace it with hope for a brighter future. If you do, you will be able to achieve things everyone else thinks are impossible. Keep your hopes high and you will fly to new heights!

Can Be Before Can Do! Great Executive Coaches Add Encouragement
Successful entrepreneurs understand that executive coaches can add an important dimension to their growth in business and as people. Great executive coaches add encouragement.

Creating Great Family Relationships

When asked what is most important to them, most people respond with one word-family. When you have a family where love is expressed, and shown, the benefits are overwhelming. A happy family where respect, laughter, love, and fun exist is truly a bit of heaven on earth. If your spouse is thoughtful, supportive, a teammate, and a friend, you'll attain greater happiness in all areas of life. If your children are close to you, bonding as siblings, developing mentally, physically, and spiritually, who can measure the joy you will know? When the trials of the world weigh heavily upon you, your family becomes a true source of strength, encouragement, and peace-a shelter from the storm.

Friendship
Friendship Good morning my name is Linda & I am an alcoholic…..ooooppps wrong meeting!!!! These things happen when I am trying to be in 3 places at the same time, or rushing from here to there, this seems normal for my life and probably for a lot of others.

Strategic Planning – Planning for Success using your Strategic Roadmap.
So what is a business strategic plan? Basically it is a combination of what you want your business to be and a roadmap to get. Here’s how to get your company focused, stable and profitable.

Giving Beyond a Season An Entrepreneurs Wish
The giving that really matters is often just old-fashioned (yet, highly fashionable commendation). Hardworking entrepreneurs need lots of it to keep hanging in there when times are less than favorable for business. There is no out-of-pocket expense associated with offering praise where praise is due.

Diligence
Diligence is the byproduct of successful planning.

Encouragement
Encouragement helps people to be their ultimate potential.

The ABC of Superlative Leadership
Learn your alphabet of leadership and take your team to new heights.

Tips for Encouraging Your MLM Downline to Improve Performance
If you want to be successful in MLM marketing, it is important that you do more than just bring in new affiliates. When you help your downline to improve their performance, you'll be more successful yourself. It's important that you take the time to help your downline and provide them with tips and encouragement that will make them successful, which in turn will make you successful as well.

What makes OPD unique and different?

Good question. Answer: It is a better model of the link between staff behaviours (human performance) and business strategy and goals. It is the best possible model in fact, it is the only way staff behavior can be linked directly to strategy. So what? If your thinking is clearer, do you act more effectively? Of course you do. OPD has answered the question: How is staff behaviours linked directly to business strategy and goals? Having answered the question, the OPD-SHRM system then provides the consulting support and web based administration systems that enable every team leader to apply the model to their team.

Tips To Help You Find A Fast Way To Make Money Online
Do you like to write either blog content or website articles? There's a huge market for this and if you do you can make a lot of money online very quickly doing it. Here is a couple ways you can do that.

Sales Managers - Are you an "Autocrat" or a "Motivator"?
After working for some 30 odd years now with thousands of Sales Managers, I’ve noticed that all the successful managers I’ve met have developed a management style which makes them popular with their people and allows them to get the best out of their people.

Why Having a Mentor is so Important for Your Business
Mentoring is a journey of self-discovery -- you discover that you can handle the most critical issues because your mentor has equipped you with the appropriate skills and knowledge necessary to succeed. A good mentor will always hold you accountable for your goals. He or she will ensure that you stay on track and when you get frustrated will push and motivate you to keep trying until you succeed.

From Transactional To Transformational Leadership
A CLEAR PATH FOR LEADERS What do high performing leaders actually do on a day to day, week by week basis? What happens to the team when you are a skilled leader/developer and how do you get these skills? How, as a leader, can you lead with strength and dignity, passion and compassion? What you do is simple and entertaining... you watch the 'Karate Kid'!

Are You in the Right Business? How to Discover the Business You Were Meant to Do

You might not outright ‘hate’ what you are doing in your business, but if you don’t enjoy going to work each day, you might want to figure out why. No one loves work all the time, but if you find that what you do is dragging you down rather than lifting you up, you should take notice. Many unhappy workers wind up feeling frustrated and defeated by what they do, when in fact the real reason they dread work, is that they’re working way under their potential.

Discipline
Self-control

Two Underused Secrets in Motivating Others
In this article you can read about the simplest, cheapest and often most gratifying and effective way of motivating others.

Learn the 10 basic steps to change negative attitudes
Negative/ bad attitudes spread like viruses, from one individual to the next and can "infect" entire groups, communities and organizations. Once an attitude virus begins to spread, it becomes an epidemic in no time. Health suffers, productivity suffers, finances suffer, and the relationships suffer.

Support for your Business…Starting at Home

As things have been a bit crazy around our house since starting a home based business, I have been thinking how lucky and blessed that I am to have a husband who is supportive in my business endeavors. I hear time and time again from women that their spouses are not only unsupportive, but in fact they tease, taunt and try to make their wives feel like they are silly to even attempt a business. My heart goes out to these women, and it saddens me to hear stories like this. It is difficult to pursue a dream when the person who is to be your closest friend and supporter acts just the opposite. I sometimes wonder why some spouses act this way, but will never fully understand. I can only assume a variety of reasons: jealousy, fear of change, feelings of neglect.

Dampening Disappointments
Bouncing back from non-starters, disappointing results and criticism are part of our maturing process. Sure, these can hurt us emotionally yet they are bound to occur, at the most unexpected moments. These can be prevalent in performance appraisals, sales interviews, and business proposals.

Make Small Commitments. Get Big Changes.
Taking Care of You Drink plenty of water. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. Eat more fruits and vegetables and eat less that is manufactured in processing plants. Avoid eating food that is handed to you through a window. Live the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.

The Power of Decision

Patrick Hughes was born blind and crippled, but when someone asks about his disabilities he says, "What disabilities? I'd call them abilities." Instead of focusing his life on areas in which he is disadvantaged, he has exerted all his effort into his talents and passions. He is an amazing pianist! It all started with Patrick making a decision to focus on what he does well. What can we learn from people like Patrick? What do successful people have in common?

How to Develop a Commitment to Teamwork
To be most effective teamwork needs to be embraced in principle and in practice through mutual support, encouragement and accountability, believing that by working together as a team and sharing knowledge, the organization can achieve much greater results than by working as individuals.

Owner of www.zenhabits.net Spills The Beans...

Recently, I came across www.zenhabits.net a fantastic blog covering such topics as achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits. I was inspired and wanted to know the owner, Leo Babauta, more. So I wrote to Leo asking for an interview and he kindly accepted.

Build a Dynamic Business - 10 Steps to Start You Off
What does it take to make businesses perform extremely well? It's when your people work together in incredible ways, to create far more than you might expect...

The Value of Being Appreciated
There are a whole load of resources you can find on 'motivation'. Books, tapes, internet etc. Yet it need not be so complicated...

Don’t Allow the D’s in Your Life to Defeat You

Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking is one of my all-time favourite persons. While preparing to write my usual Monday Rx blog post, I picked up the Miniature Edition of his book and it opened at the chapter “I Don’t Believe in Defeat”. What serendipity! That’s exactly what I was going to write about. For starters, here’s a quote from the chapter: “If you are thinking thoughts of defeat, I urge you to rid yourself of such thoughts, for as you think defeat you tend to get it. Adopt the “I don’t believe in defeat” attitude.”

Is your Business taking you for a Ride? A Wheel Barrow story!
Learning to grow your business may require that you delegate things to others and implement systems so that you can work on the things you need to work on to encourage growth. Often it is our pride that keeps us from delegating, because we are excited about doing it all ourselves.

Business and Life Strategies Taught by a 6 Year Old
Everything I forgot about living I am re-learning from my kids. Childlike wonder is a rare commodity.

Powerful Relationship Selling
INFUSE ME! A simple encouragement to uncover the power of relationship building and selling. It starts with the one in the mirror!

“Don’t Quit”
A note of encouragement from AWAI member, Clyde McDade.

Get Up Again When You Get Knocked Down
Why do we fall down? To learn how to get back up again. I remember hearing this in a movie not so long ago. We all have our set-backs and some of us take pretty hard hits. Encouragement along the road is part of the game.

Ten Things To Appreciate Today
Entrepreneurship is a form of inspirational leadership. Inspirational leadership requires encouragement. Encouragement requires appreciation, both of oneself, of others, and of life's many blessings. So I encourage you to find ten things to appreciate today. Here's a list of ten "thought-starters," blessings for which I find myself thankful today, and I hope it helps SPARK some ideas in you.

Lone Rangers Are Rarely Happy People
Everybody needs somebody. It’s human to need friendship, encouragement and help. As a solo business owner, you can’t know everything. It's both an asset and a strength to know when to ask for help.

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...
Seven Points of Encouragement To Push You To Build New Business And Get Busy With Social Media

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