Coach - Consultant - Strategist for SMART Business Owners
Last time I talked about how science has found that happiness = success. Be happy first and success will follow. So, how does one do that? Well, Shawn Anchor (the author of The Happiness Advantage) said that in the Harvard study, they looked at the patterns and characteristics of people who are happy and successful and some common themes emerged.
1. Happy and successful people are …
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Let’s talk about happiness. Until the last few years, I had a messed up view of being happy. For me, happiness was often in the future. I’ll struggle and work hard now so I can be happy when I finish graduate school . . . when I get a promotion . . . . when I quit my job and start my own practice . . . when my daughter is out of the terrible twos . . . when I have more money . . . and …
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“Authentic Marketing” is a popular phrase these days. It sounds great (because it really is) – but what does it really mean? Well, in my opinion, it means showing up in every interaction you have with people (including emails, sales pages, website, video, tele-classes, social media, sales conversations, networking events, speaking engagements and client appointments) as who you really …
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Last year I read The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. It was a fantastic book and I did something I rarely do with a book – I read it a second time. It’s not that what he shared was new information for me, it’s that it pulled information that I know together in a different and very helpful way. I’d like to share some of the wisdom I gleaned from Hendricks and add my own perspective to …
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Do you have a written business plan? If you are like many service professionals, you either have one you wrote when you started your business that is sitting on your shelf and hasn’t been looked at in ages OR it is on your “I really need to get that done someday” list. What you may not realize is that not having a business plan that you refer to on a regular basis is holding you back from …
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I was recently talking with a friend and colleague of mine. We were talking about how there are some people who say they want one thing, but the behaviors and actions being taken say something completely different. This is where my years of experience with human behavior and my gift of seeing underlying patterns that sabotage success come in handy.
Being incongruent between stated goals and …
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Let’s talk about capitalism. This is a subject I have been thinking a lot about recently. I am currently reading the book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey, the Founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. The truth is that capitalism has gotten a bad rap in the last few decades. In fact, there are people in the world who would love to see …
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I recently listened to an interview with Darren Hardy, the founder of Success Magazine. He talked about what happens when things don’t go the way we plan in business and in life. You know, those things that shake your confidence, affect your identity or turn your world upside down . . . divorce, death of a loved one, a serious health crises, bankruptcy, closing a business, downsizing, …
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Life always provides us an opportunity to learn. My daughter participated in a horse back riding clinic recently. The instructor shared this wisdom with the kids “Riding is mostly a mental game. There is skill and technique involved, but mostly it’s mental. Focus on what can go right, not what can go wrong.” As I thought about this advice, I realized it is true of business as …
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I was listening to an interview with Darren Hardy from Success Magazine recently. He stated that we are living in the best time, ripe with opportunity and possibility in the history of our country. Given all the craziness in the American Government and the doom and gloom predictions of the global economy, it gave me pause for thought. He went on to explain that because of the rapidly …
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