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Smart Women Find Their
This article is about finding what you are passionate about in life and making a plan to enjoy it. It offers a look into how we can find the “flow” in our lives. Finding what energizes us, what we love to do, and why it’s so important to do this.

Transformational Marketing
We’re living in a time where not only has marketing radically changed, but the medium is changing us. The internet is perhaps the closest we’ve come to a physical manifestation of the collective subconscious. To be effective in this new terrain, people need more than a modified promotional approach, they need a marketing transformation.

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Why Selling Is Like Racquetball
I finally got back into my favorite sport – Racquetball. It’s been nearly four years since I played. When we moved from New Jersey to Las Vegas, there were no clubs nearby for me to join. But they finally opened a brand new health club not far from my home. So I joined and am back to playing my favorite sport 3 times a week. I really didn’t realize how much I missed it till I started playing again. I guess after being away from it for a while gave me a new perspective once I resumed playing again because I was suddenly aware of several interesting analogies between this fast-paced sport and selling. Yes, you heard me. I can see several similarities between playing Racquetball and Selling!
Wholehearted performance checklist
"The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; the antidote to exhaustion is ... ... wholeheartedness" - David Whyte We perform at our finest when we are wholly engaged. Whether we are working or playing tennis, we achieve our best (with least effort) when we are fully focused on what we are doing, when we enjoy the task in hand without stress. Yet this engagement can often be missing. For example, our tendency to constantly evaluate ourselves may get in the way. So does our fear of "getting it wrong". For many successful professionals, boredom can be a big distraction)

Play To Their Strengths
If you’re not getting the best out of your workplaceteam, you may be playing people in the wrong positions. Find out how you can transform your team’s performance by the simple skill of playing to your team’s strengths.
Are You Playing to Win or Playing Not to Lose?
You may have heard the phrase "playing to win or playing not to lose." And while it sounds good to say "you're playing to win" in your business, what exactly does that really mean? Below are some signs that will show you which way you're leaning.
Role Playing - For More Effective Debt Collection
A good analogy to the value of role playing is how they make movies. Typically, the director of a movie shoots far more film than what shows up on the finished movie we see. The rest winds up on the cutting room floor - the "outtakes". Role playing is like the outtakes. You can make the mistakes in collecting where there is no harm done, through role playing. The end result is a professional collector who produces accelerated cash flow.

LEADERSHIP MEANS BEING EXCELLENT AT ANY PLACE, ANY TIME
I've been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I'm far from the player I wish I were. I've been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I've taken the opportunity, for the first time in many years, to play tennis nearly every day. My game has gotten progressively stronger. I've had a number of rapturous moments during which I've played like the player I long to be. And almost certainly could be, even though I'm 58 years old. Until recently, I never believed that was possible. For most of my adult life, I've accepted the incredibly durable myth that some people are born with special talents and gifts, and that the potential to truly excel in any given pursuit is largely determined by our genetic inheritance.
Tennis...a lesson in life
The title says it all! In tennis and in life we learn and grow from our experiences and the examples and metaphors in this article are sure to be helpful to tennis players and non-tennis players alike.
The Best Technique To Train Sales Reps
Here are some of the reasons role-playing really works. First, it puts salespeople in situations they don't face every day, re-familiarizing them with the right methods for handling difficult objections. Role-playing is also good medicine - part of the reason it's successful is precisely because it makes salespeople a little uncomfortable and forces them to stretch themselves. It's also the best way to build empathy for customers - in a typical role-play, one of your salespeople is playing herself, but another is playing a customer, and will likely bring "pretend" challenges to the exercise that replicate the real challenges he's faced in the field. Finally, there is simply no better way to practice the skills of selling, and no professional in any field does her best work without practice....
PLAY TO WIN .. or Play Not To Lose?
Whether as a parent, partner, small business owner or sales manager, we all know that there are two ways to initiate an important (perhaps even challenging) conversation or project. We can play to win - or play not to lose. Playing to win requires some strategy and taking into consideration how the other person(s) will be affected and hopefully benefit. It also commands a sense of purpose, responsibility and a fair bit of effort! Playing not to lose takes just about as much out of you, without the potential \\\\\\\'positives\\\\\\\' that come from playing to win. What are the signs that you have slipped into this mode; perhaps trying \\\\\\\'really hard\\\\\\\', feeling tired, disheartened or discouraged, confused, or unclear?

The Inner Game
In 1971 Tim Gallwey, founder of the Inner Game, was working as a tennis coach. Having captained the tennis team at Harvard, he was on sabbatical before finding a serious job. One day he noticed that when he left the court briefly, a student who had been stuck with a technical problem had improved, without his help, by the time he returned. He began to realise that people could teach themselves better while working alone than when being given conventional sports instruction by a coach.
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