Some people travel to clear their minds of the clutter accumulated from their day-to-day lives. Stress and strain can weigh heavily on your brain and it is good to getaway in order to clear cobwebs and sweep it all away. Other people travel fill their minds Travel can be a wonder way to fill your […]
Just the other day I was sharing the idea with you that a toothpaste company had come up with a better story about brushing your teeth. I fear that I made it sound a little too special, as if stories were to be saved for a special product. That’s incorrect — every project is a […]
Before your next project launches what sort of pre-flight checklist to you review to ensure its success? It would be a dangerous a thing for an airplane to take off without verifying technical, engineering, personnel, and other elements vital to its successful take-off and safe landing. To ignore the need for a pre-launch checklist is […]
I listen to podcasts and watch videos and take courses and read books/blogs/articles to increase my vocabulary and evolve faster. By “vocabulary” I don’t mean to learn bigger and better words (though that’s also a benefit), I mean vocabulary in a creative sense. I consume media in order to help me find words to explain […]
If you walked into an important sales call with a customer and booted up your computer to begin your presentation and found a blank screen, would you have a blank mind as well? Some salespeople are prone to rely on screens in their sales process. They need to look at a computer screen or a […]
As a consultant or a coach, it’s your job to help your clients achieve their goals and grow their business (and grow themselves). You help them see the light in doing things differently than they have before and you warn them away from things that could endanger their business (or themselves). Basically, you’re a lighthouse. […]
What is a blog? What is a podcast? What is a keynote presentation? What is a film? What is a book? Each of these things is a vehicle for ideas. Many make the mistake of thinking those vehicles are the idea itself. (They’re not). Writing a blog or starting a podcast or becoming a paid […]