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Incredible Speed
Here are a couple true stories that illustrate how an organization can shrink months of effort into hours if the motivation is there. The interesting thing is that the people involved really loved the challenge and rose to the occasion.
America vs. Canada | Small Business Blog
I had never heard of something called The Index of Economic Freedom until recently. The 2010 edition of this index published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal tells me that Canada, our frozen neighbor to the north is now economically freer than the United States.
Thrill of Victory
To dream and to actually visualize yourself achieving your goals and dreams is a key factor in finding success. During the Olympics athletes have shared stories that early in their lives they actually had drawn pictures of themselves on the podium receiving an Olympic medal. They started early in life visualizing their success and allowed the images to imprint on their minds.

The Spirit of the Olympic Athletes Can Influence Your Business
Not everyone is a sports enthusiast or competitive person. There are lessons, however, which can be learned from athletes and applied to your business. Each and every Olympic athlete has a coach behind her, is part of a group and is driven to strive for peak performance. They have the determination and mindset of a winner, choosing to move forward even when it is uncomfortable.

The Olympics teach entrepreneurs 4 winning ways to get focused
Take away these 4 business "lessons learned" about achieving unwavering focus that athletes apply during and while training for the Olympic games. Learn through concrete examples how to leverage your Enneagram personality type into your daily activities to help your business soar.
Live the Dream - Share the Dream
Live your abundant life, if that is what you want. Present yourself as if you have already achieved the financial success that you desire. By doing so, you will give off the aura, the image, that you are already a successful person. You will find that things come your way easier when you act successful. People see you as a person that can get things done, a person who knows where they are going, etc. Success, or the mannerisms of success, begets success.
Smart Women Entrepreneurs Can Learn a Lot from the Olympics
This article is about using some common practices of Olympic athletes to take your business to the next level of success. It offers tips and solutions on how to set yourself up to achieve your own level of “gold” in your business. These are simple solutions that, when done regularly and effectively will produce results.

Emotional Choice
I saw Melissa Hollingsworth give her first public speech after finishing fifth in the ladies skeleton at the winter Olympics in Vancouver.
ENTREPRENEUR STEVE GIORDANELLA IS WALKING ON AIR THESE DAYS (OR MAYBE WATER) AFTER OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST DARA TORRES CREDITS HIS OLYMPIC GOLD AMINOS FOR HELPING HER TO BECOME OLDEST FEMALE EVER TO COMPETE IN OLYMPICS
Torres makes surprise announcement on national TV that she will compete in 2012 Olympics at age 45 and credits highly-pure amino acid supplements for speeding her recovery from surgery and getting her back into the swim of international competition
Lesson #3: Stick With the Dress that Fits You Best
Wang was intimately familiar with the sport of ice skating. After her father bought her her first pair of skates and took her to Central Park in New York to try them out, she was immediately hooked. She started taking private lessons at Madison Square Garden and was soon participating in competitions. “Ice skating was the first love of [my] life,” she says.
Be Positive, But Realistic
Positive thinking is essential to success, yet so many people just don't have the persistence required to make it work for them. The reality is, most overnight success stories are no such thing. Just because you've heard of someone for the first time doesn't mean they haven't been working for 20 or 30 years or more to get where they are.

Logos
About thirty years ago, three companies dreamed up logos that have become so powerful, I don't even have to show you the images to get them to pop up in your head. A sneaker company paid a few hundred dollars for an abstract, upside down wave, a coffee company picked a half-naked mermaid (is there any other kind) that cost them nothing, and a computer company picked [hired a PR firm that picked] a piece of fruit with a bite out of it.
Mobile Home Parks - Lessons from the Olympics
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing offers an important lesson to the mobile home park industry. Here you have an event where athletes have taken a certain specialty, a certain strength, and turned it into an extremely advanced skill. Some of these people you and I could beat in at least a dozen parlor games, but in their specialty, they are the tops in the world. So that begs the question: What is the specialty that the mobile home park industry has to offer? What can it alone focus on and excel at?
Workplace Shaman: An Olympian Example
Witnessing the commitment, focus, fortitude and performance of the world's best athletes competing in the Olympics and Paralympics has been awesome and inspiring. Athletes train their minds and psyche as well as their bodies so they can be the best in the world. So what can the business world take away from sports psychology to apply to developing winning business strategies, particularly in a still challenging economic environment?
O'Dwyer's Names TransMedia Group One of Top 40 Firms in Celebrity/Entertainment Publicity and Among Top 20 in Fashion
Associating your name with celebrities helps glamourize your business
Second Best also Deserves a Chance
Are you missing some of the crucial people in your business. Just because they aren't your stars it doesn't mean you don't need them!
Don’t Think of your Goals, Think From your Goals
A slight but profound change to think from you’re goal. This is one of those subtle but fine points that makes all the difference in the world.

Lessons from Bonnie St. John
How YOU can champion even the toughest of setbacks.
Gold Medal Selling
How the Formula for Beating the 1980 Soviet Hockey Team Can Help You Beat Your Biggest Competitor.
Avoid Burnout: Do the Limbo Regularly
Too often we approach life and work as a lone athlete rather than seeking support and objective feedback from like-minded colleagues, friends and advisers. Many roles, many goals and many distractions can steal your joy and wear you down. Take a cue from the old game of Limbo and learn three simple steps that can hep you turn intention into action while also helping you avoid burnout.
An Attitude of Gratitude
Throughout our lives many unwelcome, unfavorable things will happen to us. We will face challenges and circumstances that are very difficult. But we need to be truly thankful. Now I am not suggesting that we walk around grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire Cat, happy that we have problems. That would make no sense at all. But no matter what problems we face, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of good things that are happening or have happened in our lives and it would be foolhardy to allow this one thing,
Build Prosperity and Strong Relationships With L.O.V.E
I had the honour recently of interviewing Evelyn Tian. Evelyn is a Singaporean woman living in Australia. She shared a story that started with volunteering to pack and send envelopes for the 2000 Olympics Committee here in Australia 10 years ago. That simple act of giving lead to an amazing trail of events that lead to her becoming the African Attache for the Olympics and Para-Olympics. This started Evelyn on an incredible journey to Africa for 6 months where she worked with disabled women and children, introducing wheelchair sports and fund raising for home made wheelchairs. She is now working toward helping disabled orphans in Africa.
Are You Going for the Gold in Your Life?
Inspired by the 2008 Olympic Games, this article provides key insights and tips on how to achieve your goals by applying the principles athletes use to bring home the gold!
Dealing with Sales Objections: General
Today I’m going to start a new series of blog posts about handling and overcoming common sales objections. The title for each post will be “Dealing with Sales Objections” followed by the particular objection that will be tackled as part of that post.

Entertainment -- New Bandwidth On Demand Priorities
The Olympics showed that the Internet can stand up under the most brutal attack of information hungry people around the globe. What can it mean for your business?
The Magic of Thinking Big... Or Even Bigger Still
When I run seminars I ask people to set goals for the coming year. Few set what I would call big goals. Let’s say I am working with a sales team and I ask what they would all like to sell this year. Few tell me a figure that is significantly at odds with the target given to them by their managers. So if their manager has targeted them at 250k of sales they will tell me their goal is 250k of sales or at the outside 300k. Why not $1 million?
What is coaching all about anyway?
I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of business people. The purpose of the presentation was to outline what Inspiration Coaching does. However, when doing presentations like these, a major component is talking about what coaching is and what benefits it’s provides. I also used the opportunity to launch a new program. The new program is called “Inspired Living”. There will be more about this program later
Olympic Story of Trust
This brief story of product development demonstrates the power of trust. When people are trusted, they can do incredible things.
Five Keys to Setting Attractive Sustainable Goals
We’ve all been there. How many of you have set up new year’s resolutions only to discover that you have slipped after the first week or been to a workshop and sworn that this time you are really going to achieve those dreams you have had at the back of your mind? The following article gives you five keys on setting goals that will keep you motivated.

Other olympics Related Articles

Special Olympics
The Special Olympics really touch my heart. One of my granddaughters, Elizabeth, is a special 22 year old. She is one of the most beautiful, loving and funny people I have ever known and because we have been blessed to have her in our family a whole new world has opened up to us.
How to run a gold medal business
We are now in the middle of the Olympics and every evening I watch the highlights on TV. I marvel at how the athletes can pull exceptional performance out of the bag, when the pressure is on and there are hundredths of a second between win or lose. So having achieved the heady heights of running for Scotland in athletics here are my five tips to help you run a gold medal business.
Entertainment -- New Bandwidth On Demand Priorities
The Olympics showed that the Internet can stand up under the most brutal attack of information hungry people around the globe. What can it mean for your business?
Better Together
During the Beijing Olympics, beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh were undefeated in their second gold medal Olympics, with an amazing record of 108 consecutive wins. Watching the advancing duo during the Olympic coverage, I heard commentators mention that when either woman was asked during interviews which one of them was better, they responded, "We're better together."
Will Your Content Change the Internet Weather?
Content delivery firms have forecast that the Internet and Web 2.0 will crumble under the weight of personal video content. But the Olympics didn't dent it and millions watched the games around the globe. It is resilient...and self-healing.
Build Prosperity and Strong Relationships With L.O.V.E
I had the honour recently of interviewing Evelyn Tian. Evelyn is a Singaporean woman living in Australia. She shared a story that started with volunteering to pack and send envelopes for the 2000 Olympics Committee here in Australia 10 years ago. That simple act of giving lead to an amazing trail of events that lead to her becoming the African Attache for the Olympics and Para-Olympics. This started Evelyn on an incredible journey to Africa for 6 months where she worked with disabled women and children, introducing wheelchair sports and fund raising for home made wheelchairs. She is now working toward helping disabled orphans in Africa.
5 Lessons We Can Learn from Michael Phelps
23-year-old Michael Phelps is the record-breaking Olympic Swimming Champion. He is the first person to win eight gold medals in a single Olympics; the Beijing 2008 Olympics to be precise. Overall, he currently holds 16 Olympic medals; the other eight remaining are six gold and two bronze medals at Athens in 2004. What an inspiring and incredible achievement!
Emotional Choice
I saw Melissa Hollingsworth give her first public speech after finishing fifth in the ladies skeleton at the winter Olympics in Vancouver.
ENTREPRENEUR STEVE GIORDANELLA IS WALKING ON AIR THESE DAYS (OR MAYBE WATER) AFTER OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST DARA TORRES CREDITS HIS OLYMPIC GOLD AMINOS FOR HELPING HER TO BECOME OLDEST FEMALE EVER TO COMPETE IN OLYMPICS
Torres makes surprise announcement on national TV that she will compete in 2012 Olympics at age 45 and credits highly-pure amino acid supplements for speeding her recovery from surgery and getting her back into the swim of international competition
Sales.. It's more like Miss Universe than the Olympics
The World series,the olympics, the academy awards, they're all great events but everyone gets rewarded even if they fail. Not so in sales, in fact it's a lot more like the Miss Universe competition...
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