As one year closes and a new one opens, it’s a prime time to choose a point of focus for the coming year.  We encourage all of our coaching clients and GROWE members to select a theme and then visit it regularly throughout the year.   A theme is a big picture topic to explore, learn [...]

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My friend and colleague Keri Lehmann offers a 6th idea killer!
6.  Dismiss the Idea Right Away Because You Think It Won’t Make Any Money.
How many times has an idea, still in its infancy, been abandoned because “the voice of REASON” asks: but how will this make money?  Some of the most inspired and successful businesses [...]

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Today, a dear friend sent me this article.  (Thanks Susan!)  If this isn’t a shining sign of the times, I don’t know what is.

Sarkozy Wants Happiness Used as Economic Indicator
By EMMA VANDORE, AP Business Writer PARIS – France plans to include happiness and well-being in its measurements of economic progress, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said [...]

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I’ve been thinking about “permission” lately.  Many of us won’t grant ourselves permission to freely do, have, or be what we really want in life.  I’m talking about in big and small ways alike.  Big as in working in a career that is less than ideal or suffering in a relationship that isn’t loving or [...]

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Want to improve your business?  Listen.
Listen to yourself.  Really listen.  Slow down.  Get quiet (it may take a while for the inner chatter to subside).  There is so much inner guidance and wisdom available to each of us.  We have access to it whenever we listen for it.
You might want to pose questions about your [...]

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Many people are waiting for the economy to  come back; waiting for their situation to improve; waiting for life to get better.  This waiting has a crippling effect.  It stifles creativity and kills hope.  It breeds lethargy and wishful thinking, and makes way for an easy slide into doubt, worry, and powerlessness.
Now more than ever [...]

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We say we want things all the time: “I want a new pair of sandals”, “I want more business”, or “I want to lose 10 pounds,” but deep down are these our true wants? Our heart’s desires? Gosh, I hope not. There must be something deeper – for me and for [...]

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There’s a question that many business leaders like to ask each other:  “What keeps you up at night?”  I seriously dislike that question.  It implies that it’s a sign of  great success to be insanely obsessed, lying awake and worrying about business.  That question neither inspires nor brings out the best in me.
[Don't get me [...]

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I don’t know of anyone who consciously planned on the current state of our economy.  Yet here we are, each of us dealing with it in various degrees.  Chances are, no matter what your plans were for your business or your career, the current situation has given you pause.  Here’s the good news: that pause [...]

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Honestly, I’ve never surfed but I came across these guidelines years ago and liked them for life and business.  I don’t know who originally created these….let me know if you do.
1.  PASSION RULES: The best surfers don’t spend a lot of time on the beach, talking about surfing. They love the water and no matter [...]

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