Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category


The 3 Priorities to Achieve Balance for a Happy, Successful Life

I have worked in the business world for many years.  The saddest thing I have witnessed is to see someone who has work very hard, spending the majority of their time creating a successful career.  They finally reach that pinnacle of success in their career that they were striving for and they look around and [...]

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How Words of Encourgement Builds Self Esteem

My parents have recently moved into a full care nursing facility.  It became impossible for them to care for themselves and live independently.  I have become involved in the arduous task of preparing my parents’ home to be put on the market.  They had been living in the same home for 47 years and uprooting [...]

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3 Tips on How to Improve Your Team’s Self Esteem

I have heard more times than I can count, “You get what you expect out of life.”  I have heard people say they don’t expect good things to happen for them.  If they do, they think it will jinx them.  They believe healthy self esteem, somehow it is cocky, ego driven and wrong. When we [...]

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How to Handle Negativity and Develop a Team with Positive Attitudes

I have worked for many years in the corporate world leading top notch sales teams.  I have, also, had the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial sales teams.  One thing that I have found to be true with both is, working with people with a positive attitude is huge!  I have had people tell me that watching [...]

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What is the Difference Between a Manager and A Leader?

Since the beginning of time, humans have figured out that together everyone achieves more.  Together, they could create a group environment and split up the work load.  The team was born.  A team doesn’t work strictly in the business environment.  It works any time people need to get together to do anything, with an objective [...]

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Do You Use the Two Little Words that Keep You From Success?

There are two words in the English language, used together, are responsible for business that failures, paintings which never reach the canvas, and pinnacles of success that are never attained.  These two words seem so innocent.  As if saying them we are automatically exonerated from any efforts to reach inside of ourselves and pull out [...]

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Is a Positive Attitude Really THAT Important to A Team?

The other day, I was browsing through a catalog and I ran across a sign that said, “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.  A little  bit of tongue in cheek humor.  Or is it?  It got me thinking about the two different management styles; positive versus negative. Many managers make the mistake of passing [...]

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