Tag: successful

Am I Successful? Check-up

How do you define success? Dr. Travis Bradberry recently quoted in his article 9 Signs You’re Successful—Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It that, “67% defined success as ‘good relationships with friends and family,’ and 60% said it is loving what you do for a living, only 20% stated that monetary wealth determines success.”

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What Successful People Do…..

While this can look different for everyone, there are perhaps some common themes. Note, this is not “things you have heard or should do”, rather what you DO that sets you apart from others who desire or aspire to be where you are. Maybe you have a signature belief or

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Eight Core Beliefs of Successful CEOs (part 1)

Some of the most successful CEOs in the world were interviewed in order to discover their management secrets. The “best of the best” shared the following eight core beliefs. 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They

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Be Careful What You Plant (part 2)

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. “My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO. “Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!” All of a sudden, the CEO

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Be Careful What You Plant (part 1)

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, “It

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Strategies for a Productive Summer (part 2)

Schedule “catch up” time. If you are able, allow a “phase in” plan that provides you with personal time in the office to go through email, mail, and other things that have accumulated while you were gone. Often, people come back to a full schedule with no time to “re-settle”

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Strategies for a Productive Summer (part 1)

In our busy and fast-paced world, summer (June – August) is commonly the time when kids are off from school, people travel, weddings and graduations occur, and family reunions take place. It’s a time when the frantic pace of work slows down a bit, simply because the people who are

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Goal Setting That Sticks!! (part 1)

If you look around at the “successful” people in life, they are setting goals. Often we are resistant to setting goals. There are many reasons, pessimism that they won’t work, fear of failure, lack of time, lack of thought, etc. The irony is you cannot arrive in a place you

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